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As we told you last week, Nashville-born Miley Cyrus aired her very own MTV Unplugged last night, Jan. 29, ahead of her upcoming Bangerz tour, which makes a stop at Bridgestone Arena on April 18. Between her Disney ties, recent affinity for club jams, and top 40 over-production, it’s easy to forget that, at her core, Cyrus was raised in…
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Ah, the lost “art” of the music video. While there are some notable contemporary exceptions (such as ∆, Bat For Lashes, Arcade Fire, Fiona Apple still going strong, etc) — it feels like nobody’s wasting any time on these things in the straight-to-Youtube-just-before-forgotten-time of RIGHT NOW. And that’s partly what makes this week’s Diversion…
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MTV has announced that Nashville’s Miley Cyrus will be the latest musician to be featured on the network’s acclaimed Unplugged series. Though it has waned in popularity since its ’90s heyday, the show remains a great outlet for showcasing artists in a stripped down setting, often in stark contrast to the sound they’re known for. Miley Cyrus Unplugged will…
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Back in June, we brought you news that Nashville pop/rock band Darling Parade were honored with an MTV O Music Award in the “Make a Band Famous” category. Since then, the group’s popularity has been growing and growing! In addition to a performance during VMA weekend, MTV Hive has named the band an Artist to Watch,…
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Local rockers Moon Taxi, who headlined the final installment of this season’s Live on the Green, have made countless festival appearances over the past few months, and have been seemingly gaining more and more buzz by the day (seriously, what an insane year they’ve had), just released a brand new, “Fan Appreciation Video” for…
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Alternate Post Title: “I spent 12 hours* watching MTV (in case you didn’t)” *This is a lie. Ok, an exaggeration. It was more like 6 hours, but it could have been 12, because MTV actually played half a day’s worth of music videos from throughout the channel’s near 32 year history (feel old yet?).…
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Nashville pop/rock group Darling Parade have won an MTV O Music Award in the “Make a Band Famous” category. 10 finalists were narrowed down to 5, and Darling Parade were voted as the winners, beating out competition such as The So So Glos and fellow Nashville act Striking Matches. The O Music Awards are an annual,…
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Last month, a documentary filmmaker named Steven Greenstreet hosted a Reddit AMA, where he talked in-depth about spending nearly two years filming Nashville pop star Ke$ha with essentially unrestricted access. The culmination of that project is a new reality show, called Ke$ha: My Beautiful Crazy Life, which premieres tonight on MTV (at 11PM/10c). The show chronicles the singer in…