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FeaturedNovember 30, 2021

TRL: My Life at MTV

In 2012, I looked back with humor at my life at MTV Networks in the late 1990s. Part of my duties at the music channel was babysitting boybands like *NSYNC and The Backstreet Boys. Kind of.

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Featured, MusicJuly 29, 2021

Greg Cox: Making His Own Band

In the summer of 2018, I had coffee with a guy named Greg Cox — an R&B singer in Charlotte, North Carolina, whose self-released debut LP Etc. had just dropped on my desk and blown my mind.

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Featured, MusicApril 20, 2021

Whitney Houston: A (Very) Personal Tribute

By the late ’90s, Whitney’s “children” regularly passed through the green room at MTV, where I was then working as vice president of music editorial on the daily show TRL. Like Whitney, I was at the top of my game — or, so it seemed.

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