In one of our more significant stories, Ed Driscoll published an outstanding profile and interview with the great electric guitar innovator Les Paul three years ago today. At the time Paul was among the coolest octagenarians on earth – now, at 90, he is among the most extraordinary nonagenarians: Les …

Our publisher looks back at Carly Patterson's Olympic victory and some Russian sour grapes...

As we mentioned here Thursday, Trenton NJ’s Hellfest was canceled at the last minute due to insurance issues and general allegations of ineptitude, leaving 188 bands and thousands of aggro fans all revved up with no place to go. Those who can make their way to the Trocadero in Philadelphia …

The familar scene: the Stones gearing up to hit the road again, this time for their “A Bigger Bang Tour,” an 18-month sojourn across the planet which launches in Boston on Sunday and has already sold out 98% of available tickets. The press collectively marvels at a) how remarkably OLD …

Now we know why Eminem called of his European tour a couple of days ago: today publicist Dennis Dennehy said the rapper formerly known as Marshall Mathers, 32, was “in the hospital under doctors’ care” recovering from addiction to sleeping medication. He had been due to begin the 10-date European …

Was the California recall election that deposed Gray Davis and put Arnold Schwarzenegger in the governor’s seat really only two years ago? I sort of mix up the election, Arnold’s movies, and the menagerie of candidates from Gary Coleman to porn star Mary Carey, to now-blogger Arianna Huffington. RJ conducted …

Concert promotion is dicey business under the best of circumstances, and apparently these were not they. Just a day before its scheduled Aug. 19-21 aural assault on New Jersey aggro fans, the ninth-annual Hellfest — “a barricade-free, circle pit induced festival” with 188 acts, to have taken place at Trenton …

If you are so inclined, this mystery could be “evidence” against evolution: if scientists can’t classify a 525 million-year-old fossil (annelid? arthropod? mollusc? something else?) then why is there any reason to think it “evolved” at all, rather than having been “created” sui generis and sent on its merry way, …

Since Blogcritics has been around for three years now and has accumulated about 32,000 stories(!), we thought it would be amusing and/or edifying to start a new feature — From the Blogcritics Vaults — where we will look at a Blogcritics story from either 1, 2 or 3 years ago …

Now that the scrappy urban tramp of old is a preening member of the equestrian landed gentry, it was only a matter of time before Madonna suffer the consequences: three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken hand. “Madonna fell off a new horse she was riding at Ashcombe …