There’s a fun new way to watch YouTube: by channel surfing like a boomer with cable TV. This creative idea comes from London-based developer Steven Irby, who has just launched a web app called Channel ...

WASHINGTON — Music streaming giant Spotify sued online activist group Anna's Archive for trillions of dollars after the group claimed to have copied a large portion of Spotify’s music library and ...

Nicole Charky-Chami is a senior editor based in Los Angeles, writing and producing breaking news. She teaches journalism courses for UCLA Extension and previously taught at Loyola Marymount University ...

One week after President Trump recklessly escalated his threat to take over Greenland, Neil Young is gifting the country’s residents free access to his entire music catalog. In a letter addressed to ...

Anna’s Archive, the “shadow library” that announced it scraped millions of songs from Spotify, is being sued. According to documents reviewed by Complex, the three major music conglomerates—Warner ...

The unofficial website MTV Rewind has recreated the channel’s classic era, pulling in thousands of clips. Its developer says it’s an antidote to the algorithms. By David Browne Like many who’d grown ...

At the very end of 2025, a quiet but seismic shift marked the true end of an era: MTV officially shut down its remaining 24-hour music video channels worldwide. For many fans, that closure felt ...

MTV shut down its remaining 24/7 music channels in several countries, including the UK and Australia, at the end of 2025. The main MTV network shifted its focus to reality shows long ago and it ...

At the end of 2025, MTV shut down many of its remaining 24-hour music channels across the globe. To fill the void, one ambitious fan has launched a free website called MTV Rewind, featuring archival ...

Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...

Ultimately, video killed the pioneer of music video channels. MTV’s music channels went dark on Wednesday, closing with the clip that introduced the world to the 24-hour station on Aug. 1, 1981 -- ...