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“MTV in 1997 or 1998, suddenly they decided rock was out - it was replaced by rap… People were waving guns. Some people assert the CIA was involved... above my pay grade, but I saw it happen”: Billy Corgan says rock was “dialled down” in the late ’90s

He says rock stars don’t have “a voice in the culture”. Er...

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“I felt I deserved a songwriting credit because it was a No. 1 hit. They sold millions of records and I only got $200!” Flea’s bittersweet hip-hop recording experience

In 1989, as the Red Hot Chili Peppers enjoyed their first big hit, Flea was hopping around MTV in the video for Young MC’s Bust A Move

Guitar World

The guitar Kurt Cobain played in Nirvana's iconic video for Smells Like Teen Spirit is coming up for auction next month

Kurt Cobain's 1969 Fender Mustang will be auctioned alongside guitars once owned by David Gilmour, Prince, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and more

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Joe's Apartment Was A Strange Choice For MTV's First Movie Release In The ‘90s, Here's Why I Approve

Singing and dancing cockroaches? Why not?

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Jersey Shore star Snooki reveals cervical cancer diagnosis

The MTV reality star urged other women to get their smear tests done

Evening Standard

RuPaul's Drag Race Is So Hard To Watch This Season, And I'm Not Sure Who Is To Blame

What's going on here?

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Billy Idol Should Be Dead: New documentary "digs deep" into star's "emergence as a prototypical punk rocker" and transformation into an MTV superstar

Plus, Idol to perform acoustic sets at LA and New York premieres

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One Laguna Beach-Related Thing Stephen Colletti Was Surprised He Got Blowback For On The Traitors

We've been betrayed!

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“I figured people would frown about the group because we had three prog musicians from quite big bands playing bubblegum songs, really. But they were good songs”: Legendary drummer Carl Palmer on the multi-million-selling success of ’80s supergroup Asia

But he admits: “I didn’t enjoy making those silly videos”

MusicRadar

"When it ended, I asked, “Do you hate it?” How an old rap-rock demo, a Chris Farley skit and an all-star jam helped turn one Canadian pop-punk band into megastars

Deryck Whibley said Sum 41's breakthrough hit was kicking around for 18 months

Metal Hammer

Spencer Pratt’s sister Stephanie rants against his mayoral bid: ‘Vote for stupidity’

‘LA does not need another unqualified and inexperienced mayor,’ Stephanie wrote on X

The Independent UK

“Everything’s changed. We’re going to be rich.” How a song about gang wars helped a Ph.D. student and a school janitor become the '90s most unlikely rock stars

The story of the song that helped launch the biggest independently-released rock album of all time

Louder

Paramount+ review: A well-priced streaming service with a host of huge IPs, but not enough music content

This streaming platform is a sometimes-buggy, often-charming collection of nostalgic media and trailblazing TV - but music obsessives might be disappointed

Louder

You Don’t Need To Be An 80s Baby To Recognize These Iconic Celebrity Faces

The 1980s were bigger than big hair, neon colors, and epic movie montages – they gave us the stars who defined a generation.From Madonna shocking audiences on MTV to Michael Jackson moonwalking into history to Prince’s unforgettable purple reign, this 29-question celebrity quiz will test your memory of the decade’s…

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“Rick said, ‘I think we need to put a bass on it’. One of the kids said, ‘My apartment ain’t too far, I got a bass there’”: How the Beastie Boys saved the day on Aerosmith and Run D.M.C.’s Walk This Way

The Def Jam community spirit was alive and well in NYC's Chung King Studios

Metal Hammer

"Having to resort to writing something like this is so embarrassing." The story behind the extremely controversial Nirvana song that almost got them banned and made a US President smash up his own daughter's CD

Kurt Cobain was convinced no one could misunderstand the intent of the lyrics to this track. Sadly, many still did

The Guardian - UK

Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan on his lip-syncing downfall and Grammys comeback: ‘The truth will set you free’

Three decades after having his Grammy rescinded as part of the notorious duo, he is a nominee once more, for the audiobook of his unflinching memoir. ‘I had to tell my story,’ he says

Metal Hammer

“We didn’t expect to be Bon Jovi. We didn’t go into this band wanting to own 15 houses and have 17 supermodels on speed dial”: The 90s alt-rock superstars who lost half their audience and angered Axl Rose by making the most antagonistic album “in history”

How Faith No More made ‘the least commercial follow-up to a hit record in history’

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As an OG Fear Factor Watcher, There Are Some Things I Loved About Fear Factor: House Of Fear, And Some Things That Could Be Improved

It's good but could be better.

Evening Standard

Kanye West apologises for antisemitism and claims 'I lost touch with reality'

The disgraced rapper claimed that his anti-semitic and offensive behaviour was the result of his struggles with bipolar disorder

The Independent UK

From Beyoncé choreographer to Oscar frontrunner: The meteoric rise of Teyana Taylor

IN FOCUS: The 35-year-old Golden Globe winner could also take home a Grammy and an Oscar this year. Kevin EG Perry looks back on the unlikely origins of her career as Beyoncé’s teenage dance instructor

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36 Savage Clapbacks From Celebrities That Completely Silenced The Interviewer

The polite, media-trained smile vanishes. A quiet sentence hangs in the air, and the interviewer is left completely speechless. These are the legendary moments when a celebrity decides to throw the script out the window. An online thread asked for the best clapbacks ever, from witty replies to devastatingly simple…

The Guardian - UK

Truckin’ on: Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead’s 10 best recordings

From 46-minute jams to MTV video hits, here are the freedom-loving Dead guitarist and singer’s finest songs about ‘rainbows of sound’ and ‘enjoying the ride’

Metal Hammer

“It was Michael Jackson’s label. The people that worked there mostly thought that alternative, heavy music was garbage”: How cult fixtures Prong found their brief mainstream moment

1994’s Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck was a hit, but it wasn’t enough for the hardcore-turned-metal band’s big-label bosses

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Johnny Knoxville returning with Jackass 5

Johnny Knoxville has confirmed he is returning to the big screen with a fifth movie based on his MTV stunt show Jackass.

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