From MTV.com– “Lux Interior, lead singer of influential garage-punk act the Cramps, died Wednesday morning (February 4) due to an existing heart condition, according to a statement from the band’s publicist. He was 62. Born Erick Lee Purkhiser, Interior started the Cramps in 1972 with guitarist Poison Ivy (born Kristy Wallace, later his wife) — […]
Least hot look for a guy, ever. The New York Times reports that in a recent interview on MTV, Barack Obama (a man who knows a thing or two about style) dismissed ‘anti-baggy pants’ ordinances as a waste of time (agreed) but added, …brothers should pull up their pants… some people might not want to
The MTV Awards are tonight, and I might watch them while I do my laundry, although they’re usually kinda boring and I don’t usually like any of the bands that play it. And giving out awards to videos seems kind of silly, when MTV devotes 4% of its programming to videos these days. But anyway.
This week you can head over to MTV.com to vote for the nominees in the Best Video By A New Artist and Best Dancing In A Video Categories. While I feel obligated to vote for the not-so-new-anymore-but-awesome-nonetheless Bat For Lashes in the first category, I’m conflicted about who to vote for in the dancing category!
The MTV awards have always been kind of a crapshoot (or crapfest, depending on how nice you want to be.) In twenty-five years of its existence, the network has yet to figure out whether or not to be celebrating the best videos, the flashiest videos, the most entertaining singers, or just the videos for the