By Jem Aswad
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Executive Editor, Music
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Dave Kendall, creator and former host of MTV’s “120 Minutes,” has died, according to a post from his friend and latter-day host of the show, Matt Pinfield. No caused of death or age were cited, although he was likely in his sixties.
From scrappy beginnings, the show launched on March 10, 1986 and quickly became a high-profile platform for the rising wave of indie and left-of-center musicians that would soon be dubbed “alternative.” While Kendall, a British-born music journalist, was sometimes seen as an emissary of the “establishment” by the snooty intelligentsia of the indie-sphere, his knowledge of and passion for the music he presented was obvious and genuine.
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