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MTV's The Real World casting call last night in Denver fails to fill the room

I didn't wake up Tuesday morning thinking I'd stop being polite and start being real, but that's how I ended my day. MTV held an open casting call for the new season of its infamous reality show, The Real World at downtown bar Suite 200 and, against my better judgement, I decided to see if I had tha ... More >>

Audition for The Real World tonight, and you could be an ex like Tyrie Ballard, too

Tyrie Ballard, back in The Real World.​Revisit the glory days of The Real World: Denver tomorrow night, when Tyrie Ballard, one of the cast members of the eighteenth incarnation of the reality show that held LoDo hostage five years ago, is featured in the opener of Real World, the Challenge: B ... More >>

Ariana Gradow, not ex-Playboy bunny Barbi Benton, star of MTV Extreme Cribs ep (VIDEO)

Ariana Gradow.​In our preview of the latest MTV Extreme Cribs episode, we focused on the creator of the Aspen home the program features: ex-Playboy bunny and Hef hutch minder Barbi Benton. But the show's intro doesn't mention the Playboy connection -- or even Benton's name. Instead, the focus ... More >>

MTV's top five greatest on-air moments

A very pregnant Kim Gordon, flanked by band mate Julie Cafritz and KennedyOnce upon a time, before reality TV cheapened television programming as a whole, MTV (thirty years old today) was a bastion of music culture that actually showcased cutting edge artists for the sake of art. Because the network ... More >>

Shocker: MTV True Life "I'm in the marijuana business" subject unhappy with portrayal

​Although it could have been a snapshot of hardworking people in the cannabis industry, last night's MTV's True Life "I'm in the Marijuana Business" was an hour-long train wreck. Instead of being shown business people having success in the marijuana industry, all the current MTV generation sa ... More >>

The Meat Puppets

Wednesday, June 29, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

Tonight: Death Angel at the Larimer

Stephanie CabralBorn a year after MTV's inception and surviving the Headbanger's Ball-era, Death Angel (playing tonight at the Larimer Lounge with Four Horsemen and Steel Blades of Vengeance) is an integral part of thrash metal's history. The band members were in their early teens when the 1986 demo ... More >>

#ripkurtcobain: Seventeen years ago today

​Hard to believe it's been that long. Seventeen years ago today, Kurt Cobain left this life entirely too early. I remember vividly where I was and what I was doing when word of his death first came across the clock radio on my desk. It was a complete shock to the system. And that's the way th ... More >>

What's killing the music industry? Auto-Tune? The Internet? American Idol? All of the above?

​The music industry has been marked for death for a long time now, but amazingly, nobody has managed to come up with a concrete reason as to why. Sure, it's easy to assign blame, but the real reason the music is dying is still a mystery to most people in the industry. Thankfully, plenty of sta ... More >>

Top 5 Possible Names for MTV's 'O' Awards

​Fucking MTV. On the heels of its "extreme" strategy, we just heard the network is introducing another awards show that is apparently supposed to celebrate the "migration of music to the digital space." The show will honor tweets and best apps...uhhh...what?!? This isn't an awards show; this i ... More >>

Tonight: Melismatics at the hi-dive

​Minneapolis' Melismatics have a transportative quality, like a step back to a time to when rock and roll was just drums, bass, guitar and vocals. This isn't a bad thing at all -- the band's nostalgic sound taps into The Strokes' prime era of the early '00s, but with the more glamorous nuances ... More >>

American Skins Versus U.K. Skins: Looks like MTV forgot that the boobs were the best part

Hey MTV: Give Tony his naked bedspread back!​There are many things that make English television better than American television. Mostly, it is a lack of censorship; American TV loves violence but hates sex, drugs and profanity. English TV loves them all equally, and luckily for us, by the good gra ... More >>

Grandma on 16 and Pregnant threatens to sue for most predictable defamation of all time

Even the logo is vaguely gross​There's hardly any denying that MTV's 16 and Pregnant is one of the most crassly exploitative shows ever made. Just the inherent nature of its subjects -- pregnant sixteen-year-old girls -- lends itself to portraying those subjects as frivolous, vindictive tards ... More >>

Dean Spunt of No Age on the importance of DIY

Todd Cole​No Age (due tonight at The Bluebird Theater) isn't a band that has hit the mainstream yet, but it has enjoyed an unexpected rise to prominence as a noisy pop band, making art grounded in notion of doing things your own way -- regardless of whether or not it's met with the stamp of ap ... More >>

3OH!3's "My First Kiss" featured on So You Think You Can Dance

While we always suspected that you could really cut a rug to 3OH!3's music -- especially "My First Kiss," the first single from the outfit's new album, Streets of Gold, and the video of which also earned the outfit another MTV VMA nomination earlier this week -- now we have proof, thanks to Kent B ... More >>

Prince proclaims the internet is "completely over." Here's five other things in that category.

​ Well, there you have it: The internet is "completely over." That's according to Prince, who told the UK's Daily Mirror in advance of his new album 20TEN (which, incidentally, will only be released only on CD) that the world wide web was "like MTV: At one time, MTV was hip, and suddenly it ... More >>

The MTV Movie Awards were last night, but who cares?

While you were out enjoying the lovely weather last night, MTV aired its 19th annual Movie Award show. The broadcast featured such thought provoking awards as "Most WTF Moment" and "Best Villain." We're pretty certain the MTV Movie Awards haven't actually mattered to anyone for the better part of ... More >>

3OH!3 collab with Ke$ha on new album

Just caught an interview on MTV with the 3OH!3 dudes about the new album, Streets of Gold. Evidently, Ke$ha, with whom the boys collaborated with on her chartbuster, "Blah Blah Blah," is slated to appear on track from the new record called, "My First Kiss," produced by Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco. A ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony and La La Vazquez announce their wedding date with giant Valentine's Day cards

​Carmelo Anthony and La La Vazquez have set a date for their New York City nuptials: July 10, 2010. And to make sure none of their important guests schedule a backyard barbecue for the same day, the Nuggets star and former MTV veejay put a couple hundred Valentine's Day-themed save-the-date ca ... More >>

Over the weekend: Acoustic Profanity at Bender's Tavern

Acoustic Profanity Friday, January 8, 2010Bender's Tavern Better than: MTV Unplugged. Acoustic Profanity was about what you'd expect from the name: Get a bunch of punks together and take them out of their element a little by handing them acoustic guitars and sitting them on some stools. Over the co ... More >>

Hearsay bits: Sean Foreman and Nat Motte put the 'OH!' in 3OH!3 at mtvU's Woodie Awards and more

​Some quick news bites from the local scene...Oh my!: Recognize these striking dames? Yeah, us neither. That boa helmet and weird, red, veil, feathery thing kind of obscures any chance we have any sort of face recognition. This pic was snapped a few nights ago at mtvU's Woodie Awards, which we som ... More >>

A first look at 3OH!3's "Starstrukk" video

Update: The thirty-second preview clip has been swapped with the full video. Check it out. BTW, the video reportedly goes into regular rotation on MTV next week.All right, so dig it: the new 3OH!3/Katy Perry "Starstrukk" video won't offically see its broadcast premiere until next Monday, October 26, ... More >>

Watch 3OH!3's set from the MTV VMAs

Okay, if you're like us and were up at Red Rocks for Monolith this past Sunday night watching the Mars Volta confound the audience with its spectacular over indulgence or -- depending upon your perspective -- dazzle the crowd with its awe-worthy musicianship, you missed 3OH!3's thirty second long, ... More >>

MTV reports on what's in 3OH!3's travel bag, tests their red-carpet skills

MTV News​MTV's ongoing love affair with the dashing young gentlemen of 3OH!3 continues unabated. Just the other day, they delivered this in-depth expose of what the guys pack in their carry-on luggage while flying around the globe living the jet-set lifestyle of electro-crunk superstars on the ... More >>

Kid Cudi remixes 3OH!3

3OH!3 has officially achieved ubiquity. The duo performed live yesterday on MTV's It's On with Alexa Chung. The guys are featured among people.com's hottest bachelors. Oh, and in actual music news, "Don't Trust Me" has reached the number five spot on Billboard's top 40 chart. As the B ... More >>

3OH!3's debut single, "Don't Trust Me," goes platinum

Looks like 3OH!3's debut single, "Don't Trust Me," can now officially be considered a smash, having purportedly sold one million digital copies. For those of you who've recently unthawed after being cryogenically frozen for the past decade or so, that is the modern-day equivalent of selling a millio ... More >>

3OH!3 cautions: Don't trust a ... bro?

Did you happen to catch 3OH!3's recent spring break performance on MTVU? Panama City, Florida, on the beach with babes in bikinis, wall-to-wall kids, losing their minds, Benny Blanco on the ones and twos -- trust us: the shit was b-a-n-a-n-a-s, as Ms. Stefani would say. Er, well, actually, if this w ... More >>

Today's featured event: Ain't it a drag, honey? Logo brings RuPaul's Drag Race Tour to Tracks...

It was only a matter of time before drag queens hit reality TV. To prove the point, RuPaul's Drag Race, an elimination competition hosted by America's favorite female impersonator on MTV's GLBT-centric Logo network, is speeding around the bend tonight with its fifth fantastic episode. The show fea ... More >>

Some required reading by Amber Taufen

Amber Taufen, one of the Westword staffers laid off yesterday, served as the paper's assistant calendar editor -- a position that calls for an ability to write well and often about a vast variety of topics and events. She did so with skill and lively wit -- but she also occasionally got a chance t ... More >>

Shwayze

Wednesday, December 10, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

Times New Viking

Friday, June 6, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Q&A With Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig

All That Remains

Friday, February 15, Gothic Theatre, 1-866-468-7621.

CU Grad Tapped by MTV to Cover Election

Last Night: Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes, Plain White T's and Cute Is What We Aim For @ Magness Arena

MTV's VMA Experiment is an Embarrassing Catastrophe

Does Anyone Want My MTV?

Español Sung Here

Crossing over -- who's doing it, who's not.

Nada Surf

Saturday, September 23, CityLights Pavilion, 303-405-6080.

World Peace

Bidding farewell from the cheap seats.

Halifax

Saturday, December 17, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Duran Duran

Astronaut (Epic)

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

No Pain, No Brain

Pushing the boundaries of taste and common sense, Steve-O and the cast of Jackass bring their physical comedy to the stage.

The Hives

Veni Vidi Vicious (Epitaph/Burning Heart)

Cynics Step Aside

Save the Last Dance trips the light fantastic while bridging the black-white racial divide.

Sounds Like Fun!

Model scout at Sevilla.

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