MTV flipped a switch on August 1, 1981, and gave music a face. Labels started treating videos like serious investments, and artists began competing for airtime. As viewers kept the channel on, ...

Late boomers were the lucky cable watchers who witnessed the dawn of MTV in the early '80s, and with it, the golden age of the music video. While every act on the charts came up with a clip to promote ...

MTV came into existence in the 80s and thoroughly changed the music landscape for decades by popularizing music videos in a hip, cool, new way. Some music videos from that early era of the network are ...

Music videos from the ’80s that were way ahead of their time (and a few that haven’t aged well) MTV launched on August 1, 1981, with “Video Killed the Radio Star,” which is either the most self-aware ...

The unofficial website MTV Rewind has recreated the channel’s classic era, pulling in thousands of clips. Its developer says it’s an antidote to the algorithms. By David Browne Like many who’d grown ...

Every generation has that one place where everything cool happens. Whether it was “American Bandstand,” “Solid Gold,” “Soul Train” or G4, it’s the place where young people would find out what they’re ...

Peter Gabriel spent 16 hours lying under a glass sheet so stop-motion animators could film one frame at a time. The result won nine MTV Awards. Peter Gabriel's 1986 music video for "Sledgehammer" won ...