Good timesuck: The first two hours of MTV on its first day in 1981
Just after midnight on August 1, 1981, MTV, the world’s first 24-hour music video channel signed on with a library
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Music VIdeos
There’s a new video game based on the music of Tool
If you’ve seen some of Tool’s music videos, you might have thought “Man, this would make a good premise for
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Mustafa’s “Ali” is the Canadian Music Video of the Year at the 2022 Prism Prize
While we’re well beyond the era of sitting around watching music videos on MuchMusic or MTV–they barely show videos these
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Miss the old days of music television? Take a listen to this guy.
Like the guy in this video, I get a lot of people telling me they miss the old days of
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What happens when a song goes viral on TikTok
The music industry is totally besotted by the marketing possibilities of TikTok. But what’s really happening? Watch the video and
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Here are the 10 finalists for the 2022 Canadian Prism Prize for excellence in music videos
Music videos may not have their own exclusive cable channel anymore, but they’re still an important way of promoting music–and
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RIP Mike Nesmith of The Monkees and the man who named The Tragically Hip
You’ll read all kinds of obituaries about Mike Nesmith, the brainiest of The Monkees, who died this week of natural
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Why don’t rock and metal videos feature more cars?
If there’s a genre that celebrates cars in its music videos, it’s gotta be hip-hop and rap. But given that
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Random music news for Tuesday, November 23, 2021
In coding? Then you might want to meet Marty the Moose. If not, there’s still music news for November 23,
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Random music news for Saturday, August 21, 2021
The Tesla AI Robot is here. Because of course it is. Moving on to music news for August 21, 2021.
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Here are the nominees for the 2021 Prism Prize
Each year, the Prism Prize seeks to honour the best in music video production in Canada. After sorting through more
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