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Get yer ta-ta's out

Porn and Pimpadelic collide on the Southern devils' first video shoot

By T. Erich Scholz
Apr 6, 2000

Matt Zane, director of the new Pimpadelic video, is busy arranging the buttocks of a nubile starlet. After four run-throughs, all body parts seem to be in the right place. Encouraging his cameraman to close in on a tight shot of the female's posterior, the director claps his hands and...
Freaks of the industry

A guide to music on the Web that the RIAA isn't worried about

By T. Erich Scholz
Jan 13, 2000

The news had hit the Internet: Beck's latest album, Midnite Vultures, a little less than a month away from its proper release, was already available in downloadable MP3 form from various bootleg FTP sites covering and smothering the World Wide Web. With a little luck and lots of patience, one...
Pop smeared

Japan is the new capital of disposable pop

By T. Erich Scholz
Dec 9, 1999

Quick, name five Japanese bands. Chances are, some of the more intense music nuts out there might name-check the Boredoms, Pizzicato Five, and Shonen Knife, and some might even recognize Melt-Banana or Guitar Wolf. But the reality of Japanese pop music -- or J-pop, as it is referred to by...
Black on the inside

Nocturne learns a new four-letter word

By T. Erich Scholz
Dec 2, 1999

Call the members of Nocturne "industrial." Call them "hard rock" or "dark wave," whatever that is. Just don't call them Goth -- not to their faces anyway. Pretty much anything else is fine with the group; they're not sure what they are yet, but they insist they know what they...
Under the radar

Flickerstick might be one of the most popular bands in the area, even if no one has heard of it

By T. Erich Scholz
Oct 7, 1999

A year ago, Cory Kreig would have found it hard to believe that his band, Flickerstick, would be headlining at Trees, especially on a weekend night. The group seemed stuck in Fort Worth without a map, unable to find a way into Deep Ellum that didn't lead through three-bands-for-three-bucks gigs...

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