Listening to Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York, recorded 32 years ago today, remains a haunting experience. Taped live in November 1993, and released as a Grammy-winning, chart-topping album a year ...

If someone without any knowledge of Nirvana being the biggest band in the world had seen Kurt Cobain on the set of MTV’s Unplugged on November 18, 1993, it would have been reasonable for them to ...

While grunge seemed new to most listeners in the early 1990s, it was nothing new to the bands that launched it into the mainstream.

The former MTV boss Tom Freston had hoped to meet at one of his old haunts, someplace that might evoke the good old days of the music network he co-founded in 1981. But most of those places are gone: ...

All the reports about the death of music videos have been wildly exaggerated. But that’s only fair, since wild exaggerations are exactly what music videos are all about. These days MTV and CMT might ...

Cable pioneer and ex-Viacom CEO Tom Freston is out with a new book, "Unplugged," and some amazing stories. By Lacey Rose Writer-At-Large “Most people who are executives or have been executives write a ...

Our writers' picks for the very best bands since rock became a permanent part of popular music. One thing is for sure every year around the time of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies — ...

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