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Lascivious techno fiends Lords of Acid have just released a greatest hits package on Sanctuary, called appropriately enough Greatest T*Ts. This is their story. Belgian Praga Khan (born Maurice Engelen), German-born Jade 4 U (Nikkie Van Lierop) and Oliver Adams have produced a blizzard of exceptional electronic dance music (new …

Surely Pink Floyd is the strangest mega-successful group in rock history. Beginning in the mid-’60s as a R&B-based hard rock band like the Who or Pretty Things, the band – Syd Barrett on guitar and vocals, Roger Waters on bass and vocals, Richard Wright on keyboards, and Nick Mason on …

Sometimes I love the modern world – you know, the reassuring part. We just got back from the doctor and all is well thanks to the reassurances of ultrasound, monitoring devices, projected growth rates, and all that good stuff. Dawn and the little dude are at the 36-week mark, rounding …

The Miss Earth contest gives Afghani contestant special “beauty for a cause” award – good call. Meanwhile, back in the land time forgot, assplow rattles sabre in the young woman’s general direction. Don’t we have a few people over there who can kick his ass? Miss Afghanistan Vida Samadzai, condemned …

Stroke mags becoming obsolete: After 35 years in the business of titillating and offending, pornographer Al Goldstein says his magazine can’t compete anymore. The audience is just as large, he says, but the Internet has transformed the product and its delivery. Just over a month ago, Goldstein stopped publishing Screw …

I feel Dawn’s pain, as expressed passionately here. It also feel the deaths of our young military men and women in Iraq piling up in my soul, crushing my optimism. The key to this enterprise is to remain on the offense, as is supposedly our entire modus operandi for the …

Sony and BMG are merging their music divisions in an effort to … to do what? That’s what Forbes asks: In theory, the merged company will benefit from reduced overhead and bigger market share, and may also prevent rivals EMI Group and Time Warner’s Warner Music Group from consummating a …

Dave Cooper's Cronenbergian graphic novel of sexual obsession. . .

Do I take great pleasure at the misfortune of others? When the others in question make up the rapacious filth that is Clear Channel Communications, Inc., I do. Why? They have done all they can to turn radio into NOTHING but a commercial-delivery system. They have created monolithic blandness out …

Speculation has been rife for at least a year, but yesterday Sony and BMG agreed to merge music units. Warner Music Group and EMI are talking. And then there were three?: Sony Music and BMG on Thursday said they plan to combine their music units in a move that could …