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26 October 2010 6:00 AM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »

Few genres were more maligned than nü-metal, that strange mix of hard rock, hip-hop and electronic music that dominated the rock radio airwaves at the turn of the millennium. Sometimes dark and melodic but also frequently mookish, bands like Limp Bizkit set a standard for bad behavior and worse lyrical crimes (and that whole Woodstock '99 thing certainly didn't help their cause). But not everything in the genre was terrible (Linkin Park, who just put out one of the most interesting and innovative big rock records in years, did emerge from the muck), and not all the bands associated with the scene even really belonged there. Take Incubus, whose combination of metal, funk and psychedelia made them stand out from the pack, and they began their unlikely rise on this day in 1999 when they released their breakthrough album Make Yourself.

Essentially a jam band with distortion pedals and a sexy frontman, »

- Kyle Anderson

3 September 2010 1:30 PM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »

The 2010 MTV Video Music Awards are only a few weeks away. The biggest party of the year features nominated clips by Lady Gaga, Eminem, Jay-z, Ke$ha and Katy Perry and will feature performances by Kanye West, Eminem, Drake, Justin Bieber, Paramore, Usher, B.o.B, Florence and the Machine and Linkin Park. In order to properly prepare yourself for what's to come, every day the MTV Newsroom Blog will deliver a classic moment in the history of the MTV Video Music Awards. Today's installment: Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford crashes the stage.

At the end of the last century, it was apparently very dangerous for MTV to construct anything that even vaguely resembled scaffolding. Revelers scaled the MTV tower at Woodstock '99, and when it came time to present Limp Bizkit with the Moonman for Best Rock Video (for their aggro anthem "Break Stuff") at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, »

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16 June 2010 8:00 AM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »

The celebratory release day of Drake's full-length debut album Thank Me Later ended on a bit of a sour note, as a free show at New York City's South Street Seaport was shut down by the New York City Police Department because of crowd control and safety concerns. The good news was that an estimated 10,000 fans crowded into the space to try to get a glimpse of the rapper. When you combine that with the crowd that showed up to an autograph session at a New York Best Buy a few hours earlier, it looks like the fervor surrounding one of the most talked-about young stars in hip-hop is wholly justifiable as far as the fans are concerned.

For a dude with music as mellow as Drake's, it's a little bit weird that he finds himself in such strange company as a guy who has inspired a riot. Everybody knows about the chaos at Altamont, »

- Kyle Anderson

26 May 2010 1:30 PM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »

They say a well-rounded education is the key to success, and if that truly is the case, the my schooling is woefully incomplete when it comes to the subject of pop. That's why we bring you "Popology," the guide to modern radio-friendly stars as seen through the eyes of a guy who grew up on punk and metal. In case you missed previous installments, catch up with Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber and the Spice Girls here.

In this week's installment — a slight departure from the norm — Limp Bizkit puts the "nu" in nu-metal.

If there's one thing that stood out about the sad passing of Slipknot bassist Paul Gray, it's the fact that there was a time in this country when metal was totally accepted in the mainstream. And we're not talking about the type of metal that Guns N' Roses »

- Kyle Anderson

4 items from 2010