A decade earlier, video killed the radio star. During the ’90s “MTV Unplugged” brought a refreshing new level of musical authenticity to image-heavy, lip-synched Music Television.

During its heyday in the 1990s, “MTV Unplugged” gave artists a platform to escape the confines of the recording studio and the glut of special-effects-laden music videos. They performed ...

Gen-X and millennials rejoice, MTV is going back to playing music videos, but there’s a catch. It will only be for the lead-up to the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. Paramount, the network’s ...

For his MTV Unplugged debut, Alejandro Sanz said he didn't want an album of old hits but rather a collection of lesser-known material. And although a couple of hits are included here—notably ...

MTV will continue to not air videos, saving those for multiplex channels such as MTVU, or digital upstarts like Vevo. After a long run in the 1980s and 1990s as a network defined by music-related ...

Now comes VJ: The Unplugged Adventures Of MTV's First Wave, written by surviving original hosts Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, and Alan Hunter. The last of the original five, J.J ...

Nirvana's Nov. 18, 1993, "MTV Unplugged" taping will make its DVD debut Nov. 20 via Universal Music Enterprises. "MTV Unplugged in New York" was released Nov. 1, 1994, on CD, the first Nirvana ...

MTV reboots 'MTV Unplugged,' introduces weekly live music series by Frank Pallotta @frankpallotta April 21, 2016: 12:40 PM ET Miley Cyrus performed a performance on "MTV Unplugged" in 2014.

Former MTV boss Van Toffler will produce a week of VMAs-related programming leading up to the Video Music Awards on CBS this ...

Lauryn Hill’s MTV Unplugged session, named MTV Unplugged No. 2.0, was highly anticipated, ... The session received a DVD and album release as MTV Unplugged: Summer Solstice, ...

Gen-X and millennials rejoice, MTV is going back to playing music videos, but there’s a catch. It will only be for the ...

During its heyday in the 1990s, “MTV Unplugged” gave artists a platform to escape the confines of the recording studio and the glut of special-effects-laden music videos. They performed ...