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Category Archives: Wake-Up Video
Weezer Work ‘Blue’: Wake-Up Video
On this day back in 1994, alternative rock got a little bit nerdier and a whole lot better. Today marks the anniversary of the release of Weezer’s self-titled debut (which came to be known as Blue or The Blue Album, mostly because there are two other albums in their back catalog also named Weezer — [...] Continue reading
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Reggie Miller Crushes The Dreams Of Knicks Fans: Wake-Up Video
In the history of sports rivalries, few single players have ever embodied the spirit of villainy amongst an entire fan base like Reggie Miller did for devotees of the New York Knicks in the ’90s. Miller, a shooting guard for the Indiana Pacers, was the bane of the Knicks’ existence, constantly upending them (often on [...] Continue reading
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Turbonegro Get Hellbent For Leather: Wake-Up Video
On this day in 2003, a very unique band with a fascinating look and a singular sound put out their breakthrough album in the United States. That band is Turbonegro, a collective of five metal-loving, punk-fueled, sex-obsessed Norwegians who dropped their sixth album Scandinavian Leather seven years ago. Lead by frontman Hank von Helvete (literally [...] Continue reading
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Cy Young Achieves Perfection: Wake-Up Video
We take baseball very seriously here in the MTV Newsroom. The staff is currently embroiled in a fantasy league, office legend Daniel “Monty” Montalto is about to embark on a pilgrimage to several Midwestern stadiums (wave hello to him, people of Cleveland) and this afternoon several of us plan to be distracted by the daytime [...] Continue reading
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Letters To Cleo Play Themselves Out: Wake-Up Video
A decade ago, one of the finest bands from Boston’s eclectic ’90s rock community decided to call it quits. On this day in 2000, Letters to Cleo took the stage for what ended up being their final show (they officially announced their break-up about a month later). Though they had sold hundreds of thousands of [...] Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, James Brown: Wake-Up Video
James Brown would have turned 77 years old today. The self-proclaimed “Hardest Working Man in Show Business” passed away on Christmas Day in 2006, but his legacy still runs deep. Born in South Carolina, Brown was sent to live with his aunt Honey Washington in Georgia when he was six years old. It was that [...] Continue reading
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Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ Tops The Charts: Wake-Up Video
When Michael Jackson passed away last year, it allowed for his fans and admirers to look back on his game-changing career of incredible, envelope-pushing art. There were a number of images and moments that were constantly referenced: The 1984 Motown special that saw Jackson bust out the Moonwalk for the first time, the premiere of [...] Continue reading
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Catch A Fever: Wake-Up Video
As the next few years unfold, it will be interesting to see which band will be considered the defining act of the post-millennial years. Radiohead feel too ’90s (even though their best work has been in this century) and the Strokes don’t seem to have burrowed as deeply into the collective consciousness as everybody assumed [...] Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Kim Gordon: Wake-Up Video
If you happen to be in Northampton, Massachusetts today, you should remember a few things. First, it’s going to be cold and a little rainy, so bring a jacket and an umbrella. Second, the best lunch spot in town is Jake’s on King Street. Also, Dynamite Records mysteriously closed, which is heartbreaking in ways that [...] Continue reading
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Rocky Marciano Hangs Up The Gloves: Wake-Up Video
Sports writers of a certain age like to bring up the fact that for a long time in America, only three sports mattered: Baseball, horse racing and boxing. Baseball remains a major part of American culture (though it now takes a back seat to football in national popularity and vigor) and horse racing has been [...] Continue reading
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Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes Passes Away: Wake-Up Video
There was a time back in 1995 or so when you couldn’t turn on your radio or MTV without hearing a TLC song. Their smash album CrazySexyCool was a juggernaut of epic proportions that sold millions of copies around the world, spawned at least three gigantic singles (“Creep,” “Red Light Special” and the absolutely massive [...] Continue reading
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New Coke Debuts, Ruins Everything: Wake-Up Video
Soda tends to be a fairly non-controversial topic, but on this day in 1985, the Coca-Cola company turned the entire carbonated beverages world on its ear when it debuted New Coke. Facing growing market competition, an expanding menu of options and the surge of Pepsi, Coke decided to reinvent its formula — one that it [...] Continue reading
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Madonna’s ‘Like A Prayer’ Tops The Hot 100: Wake-Up Video
It’s been a good week for Madonna, as the episode of “Glee” devoted entirely to her music was a big hit. She can also celebrate that fact that on this day in 1989, her song “Like a Prayer” ascended to the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the seventh Madonna song to [...] Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Iggy Pop: Wake-Up Video
As anybody who has seen an episode of “Behind the Music” can tell you, self-destruction and rock and roll tend to go hand in hand. The rock landscape is littered with early burnouts and premature deaths due to drugs, alcohol, financial woes and a general streak of terrible decision making. For most, the choice is [...] Continue reading
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Aerosmith Get A Grip: Wake-Up Video
There are all manner of second acts in American culture. We love a comeback, whether it be from illness, addiction or plain old irrelevance. The men of Aerosmith felt the affects of all three in the first part of the 1980s, starting with the problematic 1979 album Night in the Ruts (which saw the exit [...] Continue reading
Nas Gets Illmatic: Wake-Up Video
Literally thousands of albums get released every year. Of those thousands, maybe a few hundred get some sort of recognition, and only a couple of dozen will actually be praised as great. A handful might be declared the best of the year or the best of a decade. But every once in a while, an [...] Continue reading
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Icelandic Volcano Spews Ash, Grounds Planes, Gets Real: Wake-Up Video
Normally, Wake-Up Video is dedicated to the past, taking note of an important event in music history or paying homage to important artists on birthdays or anniversaries. But today, we have to address the crazy-insane volcano in Iceland that is currently spewing ash all over Europe.
The volcano erupted from underneath Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier for [...] Continue reading
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Perhaps You Should Have Stayed In Bed: Wake-Up Video
Most superstitions are pretty lame and easily debunked, but it’s quite possible that April 15 is really, truly cursed. Not only do you have to have your taxes filed by today, but there are any number of disasters that went down on this day throughout history.
In 1865, United States President Abraham Lincoln died after [...] Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Sarah Michelle Gellar: Wake-Up Video
Whether you know her as Buffy Summers, Daphne Blake or the porn star from “Southland Tales,” Sarah Michelle Gellar has carved out a place for herself in pop culture for the last decade. So if you see her today, hand her a Mylar balloon and spank her 33 times, as today is her birthday.
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Happy Birthday, Max Weinberg: Wake-Up Video
Everybody in New Jersey can raise a glass to E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg today, as he was born on this day in 1951 (for those of you bad at math, that makes him 59 years old). The guy has had an absolutely amazing career, as not only as he served as the skinsman [...] Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Nick Hexum: Wake-Up Video
Monday is always a weird day to celebrate your birthday, but there is little doubt that 311 guitarist and singer Nick Hexum will be toasting and eating cupcakes today, as it’s his 40th birthday. The Omaha native has no shortage of things to celebrate. Last month, the group executed its latest 311 Day, which was [...] Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Gerard Way: Wake-Up Video
His band may have fallen just short of winning MTV’s Musical March Madness, but My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way still has plenty to celebrate. His band is putting out one of the more hotly-anticipated rock albums of 2010, he is working on a new comic book called “The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys,” [...] Continue reading
Hank Aaron Breaks Babe Ruth’s Home Run Record: Wake-Up Video
With the NCAA basketball tournament in the rearview mirror and the NBA and NHL playoffs still a few weeks off, the first two weeks of April belong to major league baseball. The boys of summer are back to hit, run, pitch and catch their way through 162 long afternoons and sweaty summer evenings filled with [...] Continue reading
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Wham! Invade China: Wake-Up Video
Wham! launched the career of George Michael, gave the universe a handful of indelible radio singles (including “Freedom” and “I’m Your Man”) and made it reasonable for artists to put punctuation in their band names (a tradition continued by Therapy? and Panic! at the Disco). But underneath their pop exterior beat a socially conscious heart. [...] Continue reading
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Tool Sweep Us Under: Wake-Up Video Bonus
We already celebrated the birthday of Pixies mastermind Black Francis, but it would be inappropriate to let a particular event pass by without acknowledgment. On this day in 1993, next-level California metal band Tool released Undertow, their debut album. While it is far more raw and unrefined than their subsequent efforts, Undertow remains an important [...] Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Black Francis: Wake-Up Video
He has been known as Frank Black and Black Francis, but when he was born on this day 45 years ago, the frontman of the Pixies was called Charles Thompson IV. No matter what you call him, he has plenty to celebrate on his birthday, as Black Francis helped invent alternative rock and was part [...] Continue reading
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Kurt Cobain Fades Away: Wake-Up Video
For people of a certain age, this week in 1994 was harrowing. Though his body wasn’t discovered until April 8, autopsy reports established that today was probably the day that Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain died. It not only represented the end of Nirvana — which, based on several accounts, may have happened anyway even if [...] Continue reading
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Ashanti Makes A Name For Herself: Wake-Up Video
The hip-hop landscape may be dominated by members of the Young Money label at the moment, but there was a time not too long ago when the scene was dominated by Murder, Inc., the label headed by Irv Gotti that introduced the universe to the likes of rapper Ja Rule, producer 7 Aurelius and singer [...] Continue reading
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The White Stripes Put An Elephant In The Room: Wake-Up Video
There are only a handful of true rock geniuses walking among us, and fewer still are making relevant music in the here and now. Jack White is one of those rare talents who has touched a number of projects and turned them all to gold. He is about to release a second album with the [...] Continue reading
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Fuel Sparkle In The Sun: Wake-Up Video
With the fading embers of emo, laid-back surf rock, jam bands, prog and whatever Tokio Hotel does all clamoring for attention, the current rock landscape is pretty bizarre. But no era will ever match the oddness of the post-grunge era at the end of the ’90s, when pop punk, the beginnings of nü metal and [...] Continue reading
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