Kurt Loder discusses how he started working at MTV

7.9K views · 14 reactions | We're hitting the rewind button on some of your favorite MTV News segments from over the years! Twenty-five years ago on Week in Rock, Kurt Loder took us behind the scenes of The Pharcyde's "Drop" music video– from director Spike Jonze's vision, to how they learned to rap backwards. | MTV News | Facebook

19K views · 729 reactions | Kurt Loder shows a sneak peek of A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master on MTV News, 1988 | Horror Ads | Facebook

2K views | Twenty years ago today, Woodstock '99 officially kicked off in upstate New York. The festival would end three days later in flames and reports of looting, violence, and sexual assault. This was the moment Kurt Loder and MTV NEWS, who covered Woodstock throughout the weekend, were forced to leave amidst the chaos | MTV News | Facebook

In recent years, music writers have grown markedly less likely to issue denunciations of popular music and more likely to say they loved it. Why? Kelefa Sanneh writes about the “creeping niceness” in today’s music criticism and reminisces on the cranky critics of yore, from Statler and Waldorf on “The Muppet Show” to MTV’s Kurt Loder. Read it here: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/RZAbSH | The New Yorker

28 years ago today: Kurt Loder of MTV News reports on Kurt Cobain’s death. 8 April 1994. #grungebible Video: https://youtu.be/cvMlQAVBme8 | The Grunge Bible