I got to speak with Kenny from Fuse TV’s Warped Roadies show. It’s one of my favorite shows out there right now as it gives a unique and real behind-the-scenes aspect of perhaps the best tour of the year, The Vans Warped Tour.
When the upstart music channel Fuse officially launched last spring, MTV general manager David Cohn told Rolling Stone the new competitor didn’t scare him. “That ‘Where are the music videos on MTV?’ thing?” Cohn said. “I’m not sure anybody’s that fussed about it.” But in late December, industry sources were complaining that MTV had started turning up the heat on its competition, enforcing exclusivity contracts that keep some artists’ videos off Fuse. “We pay millions of dollars to the labels to support the production of videos,” says MTV spokeswoman Jeannie Kedas. “We take a handful of exclusives a year, and… Read more »
We feel like MTV felt twenty years ago,” says Marc Juris, the president of Fuse, a small but flourishing cable channel that’s staking its future on a simple idea: Music television should play music videos. So far, the results are encouraging: Fuse more than doubled its reach to 31 million households in the last twelve months, though that’s a long way from the 86 million homes MTV reaches or the 49 million households of MTV’s music-video spin-off MTV2. Fuse, which debuted in 1994 as a tiny U.S. offshoot of the Canadian music station MuchMusic, hired TV vet Juris away from… Read more »
Orange County act Corporate Avenger is seeing controversy continue to escalate as the release of their album approaches next week. In addition to threats and angry correspondence, it now seems the liberal media won’t even stand behind the artists. MTV, Comedy Central and E! have all refused to air the Corporate Avenger TV spot in top markets such as Chicago and Phoenix due to the words “THE BIBLE IS BULL****” in succession. The majority of stations will only run the Corporate Avenger spot after 10PM. Corporate Avenger have backed up their lyrics and songs’ focus from the beginning. In a… Read more »
Seattle-based all-girl pop-rock band THEM is dishing out a new tune for your New Music Friday playlists. THEM—a band name made up of the initials from members’ names Thompson, Hudson, Ellie, and Maia— just released their new track “Confused and Upset,” featuring shimmering vocals, beachy grooves, and bubbly beats. “I’m confused and I’m upset/I can’t seem to get out of my bed/I thought I liked him/Now I don’t/What the heck/Stupid boys don’t give me rest/I’m dizzy/May their actions be suppressed/I don’t need an excuse not to kick it with you,” the band sings in their chorus. Check out the ultra-relatable… Read more »
Once upon a time movie stars used to be exclusive to the silver screen. With the introduction of streaming, the endless plethora of options has completely changed the game.
The Emmy award-winning series Barry starring, co-written and directed by DGA-winner Bill Hader is back with its fourth and final season. The thirty-minute episode action-infused dark comedy will conclude with eight final episodes, here’s a preview of the first seven.
The Lord of Dreams steps out of the comics to explore the twists and heights of the human landscape.
A teen action-dramedy for the geeks, the burgeoning superheroes, and the children of immigrants everywhere—so basically all of us.
A man learns he has another personality he’s had his whole life, which has superpowers.
