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Houston Press
The Passion of Victoria Osteen
A flight attendant's smackdown with the wife of mega-preacher Joel Osteen inspires a whole new set of commandments.
By Rich Connelly
The Pitch
Star Power
A country musician rescues Waylon Jennings' tour bus from the scrap heap.
By C.J. Janovy
Village Voice
Serrano's Second Movement
The provocateur who brought you "Piss Christ" pinches off a new concept.
By Lynn Yaeger
Turbonegro: Retox
Edd Hurt
Published on September 12, 2007
Retox
Cooking Vinyl
On Retox, the Norwegian boogie-schlock masters of Turbonegro imagine America as a land of automatic sex, wasted youth, and unanswered philosophical questions—some of which revolve around male-pattern baldness. "I took my band way across the land/But too much ass can destroy a man," they declare on "Hell Toupée." They're not as young as they used to be. Still, they're in touch with the lingo of the age, so when frontman Hank Von Helvete sings, "Now I'm stuck, Googling for wigs," he sounds like just another world citizen trying to make up for all the time he foolishly spent.
"What is rock!?," they ask. "Old AC/DC?/Cleveland, Ohio?/Basically, it's harder, heavier, and slightly more blues-based than pop," they finally decide—and then go back to fingering their comb-overs and trying to figure out why Oslo women are so dumb.
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