Meet our new home, same as our old home

Week of September 1, 2008

Well, folks, altmusictv is dead. After a proud 4 1/2 years, the name of the site has been retired, and nothing more will ever come of altmusictv. As it turns out, the world of alternative music television is pretty non-existent these days. Music videos themselves are on the way out. MTV is dead as a music network, so altmusictv has died with it. R.I.P. altmusictv 2004 – 2008.

But it's not all bad news. This site's new name is "The 120 Minutes Archive." The sole purpose of the site will be to keep alive the playlist archives, videos, and interviews from the history of 120 Minutes. This big pile of information isn't going anywhere; in fact, this change will help preserve it forever. We all loved that show and this will remain the place to come and get your nostalgia.

Speaking of which, the Playlist Archive has one new addition this time: Another episode with Henry Rollins (I've learned over the years that he sure was on the show a lot) from April 5, 1992, and a corrected date on the episode preceding it. Thanks to Justin H. for all that.

Now as "The 120 Minutes Archive," the site has a new home as part of ATRL, as you can see in the new web address of the site, http://www.atrl.net/120/. ATRL is a music community that also serves as home to "The TRL Archive," at http://www.atrl.net/trlarchive/, another big pile of information about MTV's longest-running pop music show. By joining ATRL, the history of pop and alternative will live together. Quite an odd couple, if I say so myself.

If you haven't been around this place forever, you probably don't know that our name was "The unofficial MTV2 Subterranean site" for most of 2003 until February 2004, when we became altmusictv. And before that, we first launched back in April 2003 as "The unofficial 120 Minutes site." What was our original home as the unofficial 120 Minutes site? You guessed it: ATRL. So in some ways, things have now come full circle.

With all that said, I hope you enjoy coming back here every now and then to get your 120 Minutes nostalgia on. I'll continue to update the playlist archive every couple of months as new ones roll in. Beyond that, it's off to bigger and better things for me. Adieu to altmusictv and welcome to The 120 Minutes Archive!