“I guarantee you I will screw this song up,” Kurt Cobain told the crowd before Nirvana launched into their stirring cover of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World” on MTV Unplugged back in 1993.

April 8, 1994. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s death reverberates a ripple of shock around the world. For a man so reserved, Cobain carried himself with what seemed an unshakable sense of himself; he ...

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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 unadorned, raw ...

A massive trove of live performances from the late-Nineties/early-Aughts glory days of music television has finally made it to the streaming era, with Paramount+ ...

MTV Unplugged has produced some of the most unforgettable performances in recent music history. Since its inception in 1989, fans have been delighted by seeing some of their favorite artists strip ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In 1993, Nirvana broke the mold with MTV Unplugged in New York, a concert ...

When one thinks of the MTV Unplugged series, one often thinks of Nirvana, Eric Clapton, and Pearl Jam. Each of those sets was groundbreaking, and their resulting live albums are still mainstays in ...

Dig out your flannel, put away the amplifiers, and prepare to get a little moody, because a huge list of MTV Unplugged and VH1 Storytellers episodes are now available on the Paramount+ streaming ...

Once a nonstop pulse of music, rebellion and youth culture, MTV didn’t just broadcast pop history — it helped write it. These ...