Erinn Westbrook just did her first shoot for MTV, appearing on-air to announce mtvU's new partnership with the New York Stock Exchange.
This competition is vintage mtvU, much in the same spirit of mtvU's 3-year partnership with the Fulbright Fellowship program. It began when my colleague Matt Spielman invited Dario Spina and me down [...]

Peter Kay is this rocket scientist here at work. They keep him chained in the basement developing digital whatchamacallits. I'm light years away from understanding what Peter actually does, but I'm smart enough to know he is figuring out shit that somebody really needs to figure out.

At night, when they let him out to go [...]

I met Mutaurwa Mapondera (a.k.a. "Foretold") 2 years ago, when my colleague Zach Papale, who knows more about college bands than anyone ever, played me his music. "Foretold," as he's known in hip-hop circles, was a student at UNC–Chapel Hill, and was already blowin' up inside mtvU's incubator for emerging artists, "Best Music On [...]

Trust Joey for all your needs: Joey The Midewife

Last night's Friendly Fires show at Williamsburg Music Hall was good… until it got amazing. That's when a drunk fan hopped on stage and began dancing wildly. When she got annoying, lead singer Ed MacFarlane tried to politely nudge her off stage.
When that didn't work, a security guard grabbed her and literally threw [...]

***UPDATE: Click here to see lead singer Ed MacFarlane's backstage explanation for throwing the girl off stage***
Chaos at the Friendly Fires performance in Brooklyn, tonight!
When a drunk fan pops up on stage at your show, you dance with her a little, then expect her to kinda dance herself off stage. When you try to [...]