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......

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. Since 1998, Smith and Crow have been the mainstay members of Pinback, which features a rotating cast of west coast musicians specializing in the complex yet melodic brand of pop the band is known for. Crow fans know him from Heavy Vegetable and Goblin Cock, and perhaps they were lucky......