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Photos of Goblin Cock courtesy Nash Cook

The versatile and prolific Rob Crow has been a part of quite a few acclaimed projects (Pinback, Heavy Vegetable, etc.) over the course of his esteemed career. He goes by Lord Phallus when delivering thunderous sludge-metal via the hilariously named San Diego five-piece Goblin Cock. Scorching riffs, humorous lyrics, and Crow’s distinct vocals constitute the heart of band’s tongue-in-cheek (?) product but one best incorporate the imagery in tow, such as the thematically appropriate fantasy art by Mike Sutfin that adorns Goblin Cock CD sleeves as well as the mysterious allure generated by the five cloaked members, to fully grasp the band’s vision. Check out the album cover for Come With Me If You Want To Live on Sutfin’s blog and the video for “We’ve Got A Bleeder” on Vimeo.

We're OK when television networks choose to curb the amount of gratuitous "adult" content in prime-time programming, but we've always figured that such stuff, within reason, was fair game on cable networks. After all, Comedy Central has a sketch comedy show starring a naked trucker, FX's Nip/Tuck once had one of its stars engaging in gross raunchy sex with a mother-daughter duo, and Fox News regularly gets away with putting Bill O'Reilly on the...

Rob Crow: frontman for indie tech-pop darlings Pinback, member of innumerable side projects (Heavy Vegetable, Goblin Cock, Team Sleep, Optiganally Yours...), perennial solo artist, vegan...the guy must have a secret portal to the 32-hour day. How else he does as much as he does, and as well, is anyone's guess. Due at SXSW to promote his latest solo record, Living Well (a contender for best album cover of 2007), Rob graciously answered questions about the biz, tacos, and hating rock and roll.

West coast indie pop wizards Pinback (Armistead Burwell Smith IV, Rob Crow et al) will be performing at Emo's this Friday, with Mary Timony opening.