The post Lewis Largent, Host of MTV’s 120 Minutes, Dead at 58 appeared first on Consequence. Lewis Largent, the one-time host of MTV’s alternative music program 120 Minutes and prominent radio DJ for ...

Back in the early days of MTV, the channel didn’t just air videos from well-known AOR, classic rock, and new wave acts. An annual contest called MTV’s The Basement Tapes pitted videos from unsigned ...

A new monthly version of the beloved alternative-rock showcase — which originally ran from 1986 to 2001, and then again from 2001 to 2003 — is coming to MTV2, with former host Matt Pinfield along for ...

From 1986 until 2013, MTV’s 120 Minutes, and its spinoff, MTV2’s Subterranean, exposed middle America to new, revolutionary styles of music. The shows played bands and genres of music that never would ...

If your favorite member of Generation X has had a hard time focusing on work, family and chores this week, now you know why. First there was Frinkiac, a compendium of 3 million, meme-ready screengrabs ...

Lewis Largent, the influential alternative rock radio DJ and MTV VJ that hosted 120 Minutes, died on Feb. 20, a representative confirmed to Billboard. He passed away after a long illness, Variety ...

Lewis Largent, who was known to millions in the 1980s and ‘90s as an influential alternative-music MTV VJ and DJ on KROQ, died on Feb. 20 after a long illness, his family confirms to Variety. He was ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - MTV's legendary alternative rock music franchise "120 Minutes" is returning to the network. Veteran VJ Matt Pinfield will host a monthly show, to air later this year ...

Growing up, my family didn't have cable, so though I'd heard of MTV and its ilk, I couldn't readily watch it. That all changed when I got my drivers license, right around the same time my friend ...

If this is "classic MTV," we're totally old: on Thursday, MTV announced that "120 Minutes," the alternative music showcase that premiered back in 1986 and ran through 2000, with a brief revival from ...

First, MTV [brought back "Beavis and Butt-Head"](http://pitchfork.com/news/43285-watch-beavis-and-butt-head-return/ "brought back "Beavis and Butt-Head"" ). Now, the ...