As all regular readers and contributors know, we’ve had a roller coaster ride here at Blogcritics over the last few weeks: we had to pick up and change hosting companies precipitously with the cost in that area rising dramatically, the move also generating all kinds of technical issues that have …

Late last year Genesis Breyer P- Orridge announced the reactivation of the legendary Psychic TV. More good news: they have regained their master recordings and are reissuing same, and are playing live dates in just over a week: Sat. 6/26 – Washington, DC 9:30 Club Sun. 6/27 – Pittsburgh, PA …

The Pixies have lots going on – they rocked Coachella, are playing in Europe now, a couple of Lollapalooza shows later this summer, then head out on a North American tour in September. And now they have brand new song – their first new one in 13 years – out …

“Ms. Tek, you’re on in five minutes.” Tattoo artist Paul Booth to star in a new reality show: A new art form is about to hit reality television. World renowned tattoo artist Paul Booth will open his New York-based studio to a global viewing audience with his new one-hour reality …

There are those who talk about politics – as most of us do here – and then there are those who demonstrate a level of commitment far beyond rhetoric, take the leap and actually participate in the bruising scrum that is the American political system. Our own Al Barger is …

When Found Music opened on Wilshire in LA – “in the heart of the Miracle Mile” – they were brash, optimistic and funky but chic. Check out the opening message on the site: Buy some stuff from our store. If you don’t buy anything we’ll just go out of business …

Special thanks to crack Cleveland.com blogger and Plain Dealer tech reporter Chris Seper for his concern and attention regarding the financial situation at tbomedia.co.uk. We have been pushed by our steady growth in readers, writers, and archive of stories to a much more expensive site hosting plan – victims of …

Can you? But Michael Jackson did, according to this report from Court TV: Michael Jackson paid out approximately $25 million to settle a civil suit by a boy who accused him of molesting him in 1993, according to the confidential agreement which was exclusively obtained by Court TV’s Diane Dimond. …

One of the odd but endearing things about American politics are those tableaus where the combatants periodically step out of the ring and acknowldge that it’s at least partially a big, fat show. Can you picture Hamid Karzai unveiling a portrait of Mullah Omar? Bush and Clinton get all squishy: …

Ryan Seacrest did an interview with the Straits Times (funny name, ha) of Singapore in conjunction with a Sinaporean version of Idol: Now that American Idol is over, how are you feeling? (Audible sigh of relief) Well, I’m getting a little more sleep, you know. It’s balancing two TV shows …