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"It did surprise us. People started calling us sell-outs." How Metallica wrote the metal power ballad that saved Miley Cyrus - and that Elton John called 'one of the best songs ever written'

James Hetfield wasn't sure about letting his Metallica bandmates hear Nothing Else Matters. Thank goodness he did

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“I hope they get sued. It’s a shameless ripoff. They should be slapped on the wrist for that”: How Tool attracted mainstream attention – and the ire of one of rock’s greatest frontmen

Sober, the seminal single from 1993’s Undertow, made Maynard James Keenan and co. a quick success story, but not everybody was a fan

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Is MTV Really Ending?

Fans are mourning the beloved cable network... but is it actually dead?

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Is MTV Really Gone in 2026: Financial Pressure, Merger, and Everything You Need to Know

MTV has shut down several 24-hour music channels as of 31 December 2025. Here's an overview of the closed channels, the affected countries, and potential links to merger cost-cutting.

International Business Times UK

MTV Goes Silent: Streaming Tech Ends 44-Year Era of Music TV; Officially Shuts Down on 31 December 2025

After 44 years of defining pop culture across the globe, MTV's music only channels were shut down on 31 December 2025.

International Business Times UK

“I’d have to stop, gather myself, get through two lines, start crying, leave the room, come back in”: When Linkin Park exposed a different side of themselves with Breaking The Habit

Originally written by Mike Shinoda, this shining moment from 2003’s Meteora moved Chester Bennington to tears and helped Linkin Park break out of the nu metal bubble

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“In the ’80s,MTVbuttered our bread. But after Kurt Cobain wore his grandfather’s sweater in the video forSmells Like Teen Spirit, there was no place on MTV for bands like us and Mötley Crüe”: The life and death of the thinking person’s hair metal band

Two top 10 hits and two million album sales couldn't save them

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4 top new shows I'd stream this week on Netflix and more (Dec. 29-Jan. 4)

This week’s TV lineup is packed with drama, thrills and laughs, including the "Stranger Things" series finale and Harlan Coben's "Run Away."

Tom’s Guide

“In the ’80s, everybody came out with a power ballad – and we had a great one. It was never a No.1 record, but it’s a song that defines that whole era”: How an incredibly unlucky band finally got a break with a soft rock classic

But was that song really about a nun who sells dope to school kids?

MusicRadar

"A blistering, molten metal masterpiece": Judas Priest revive themselves on Painkiller before Rob Halford's decade-long hiatus

Judas Priest follow up the lukewarm Turbo and the tepid Ram It Down with the red-hot Painkiller

Louder

Tom Freston, the beat-poet exec who made MTV cool for 20 years, sees ‘really nothing in it for the consumer’ from Netflix, Warner, or his old company

The ex–Viacom and Paramount chief is as proud of his new book as he is aghast at MTV leadership: “They’ve run it into the ground over the last 15 years.”

Fortune

“We hadn’t rehearsed. We weren’t used to playing acoustic. We did a few rehearsals and they were terrible”: Why everyone involved in Nirvana's MTV Unplugged appearance was expecting a disaster

We look back on the broadcast, 32 years after it first aired.

MusicRadar

With new memoir, Tom Freston hopes to show young people there are multiple paths to success

Tom Freston could tell endless stories about the formative days of MTV and late nights with rock stars

The Independent UK

"The cultural impact of Purple Rain is so enormous that it ultimately overshadows the music": Prince aims for superstardom and succeeds with Purple Rain - just steer clear of the movie

The Purple Rain movie may have been a polished turd of soapy melodrama, but it – and the brilliant soundtrack – transformed Prince into a towering icon of the video age

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The Independent UK

2025’s most outrageous celebrity red carpet looks

From the Met Gala to the MTV awards, here are the looks that got everyone talking this year

Metal Hammer

"We had taken some mushrooms. We saw ghosts and all manner of things." Hallucinogenics, Tim Burton and The Battle Of Hastings: the story of the song that turned a British black metal band into household names

How one of Britain's most infamous metal bands wrote their major breakthrough hit

Guitar World

“One of the most significant artefacts in rock music history”: Kurt Cobain’s MTV Unplugged Martin D-18E – the world’s most expensive guitar – has been donated to the Royal College of Music London

Plans are being made for the guitar to embark on a 2026 tour

Everybody Loves Your Money

The Real Cost of Living in 1983 — And How Far $20 Really Went

Step into 1983, and you’ll find a world where MTV was still new, seatbelts were more of a suggestion, and a twenty-dollar bill felt like a tiny treasure chest. People didn’t just casually tap a phone to buy coffee—they paid in cash, counted their change, and sometimes stretched a single…

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Kim Kardashian changed her name before first appearance on Keeping Up with the Kardashians

Kim Kardashian went by her full name Kimberly Kardashian before realising that it was "so long for people to say" prior to her first appearance on Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

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You’ve Definitely Seen These 25 Album Covers Before – Prove You Can Name Them

Whether you discovered music through vinyl sleeves, CD booklets, or MTV countdowns, some album covers became just as iconic as the songs themselves. This quiz spans the 1970s through the 2000s - covering classic rock, pop legends, hip hop breakthroughs, and alternative anthems.

Metal Hammer

"It’s strange when you’re playing in front of 30 people, lip-syncing. Especially when you’re hanging upside down with a piece of meat behind you." How Nine Inch Nails' anthem of self-loathing and sleaze got twisted into the ultimate horny metal track

As Tommy Lee of Motley Crue once put it, Closer is "the ultimate **** song" - but it certainly wasn't written that way

Louder

“We were a really weird punk band that came out of hardcore and were shot into this vortex”: Fall Out Boy came out of the US hardcore scene. So how did they become poster boys for 21st century emo?

Chicago’s Fall Out Boy were playing to one person a night – and then MTV happened

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A Viral TikTok Has Fans Questioning An Iconic Moment In Britney Spears History

Is this the Mandela Effect?

Cinemablend

‘I Fought So Hard’: Mean Girls’ Lizzy Caplan Recalls Landing Janis Role, And The Reality TV Star Execs Initially Wanted

I can't imagine anyone else playing Janis in that OG film.

Metal Hammer

"Winona Ryder was confused. She wanted to know why we'd write a song about her. I told her: 'It has nothing to do with you.'" How a cult 90s rock band's song about a beaver sparked a surprise encounter with a Hollywood A-lister

When Primus wrote this weird art rock classic, they weren't expecting a visit from one of America's coolest actresses

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