MTV has soft-launched MTVMusic.com, a music-video-only site where users can browse videos from the channel's massive library—so if you missed, say, VH1 Soul's all-New Jack Swing weekend these past couple of days, you can sort of recreate it on your own with just a few clicks. (I say "sort of" because New Edition's "If It Isn't Love" isn't available yet. Why, Viacom, why?) Those of us who are bloggers/serial "funny music video as comment" message-board denizens will also be thrilled to find out that clips from such YouTube-embedding-averse labels as Universal Music Group are actually available for embedding on non-MTVMusic sites. Whether or not this will last is another matter entirely, but for now, I'm pretty thrilled. And finally, on a typographically geeky note, the house ads totally
bring back Kabel Black, the video-chryon font that was dumped when MTV gave up on showing videos
in toto during hours when the sun could conceivably be out in the continental US. Yay, videos! [
MTV Music]
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The launch of MySpace Music—you know, the joint venture between MySpace and the major labels that's going to change everything, or at least get the biz some semi-positive press for a couple of days after it launches—is rumored to be delayed until at least next week. Or maybe later. Where can I place a bet on this thing actually launching before the end of the quarter? I'm feeling lucky! [
