Lollipop Magazine

Rhythm Pigs – El Paso – Review

March 1, 1995

The first cuts begin well, but the tunes don’t really go anywhere, and they start to sound like a Meat Puppets album I bought and didn’t like.

Queer – Desperate Living – Review

March 1, 1995

Feels like walking down the hall at a party, a combination of wine, beer, bourbon, Jägermeister, vodka, and tequila coursing through your head and belly.

Psycho – Shrunken – Review

March 1, 1995

I thought it was deathpunk. Just badly produced death at the wrong speed.

Polara – Review

March 1, 1995

Taking a straightforward alternapop sound, they throws in drum machines, Farfisas, ’70s Moogs, Wurlitzers, and vintage effects pedals.

Pitch Shifter – The Remix War – Review

March 1, 1995

The Remix War is a collection of remixes from Desensitized done by members of Biohazard, Therapy?, and Gunshot as well as Pitch Shifter themselves.

Pansy Division – Pile Up – Review

March 1, 1995

Pansy Division earn punk points in the present with hooky three-chord progressions and outrageous deadpan lyrics.

Outrageous Cherry – Review

March 1, 1995

What would happen if the Velvet Underground met up with the Ramones in a bar in New Jersey to talk about their ex-girlfriends? Outrageous Cherry would happen.

How to Start Your Own Zine – Fiction

March 1, 1995

The secret is “ad sales.” This may put off some, but it’s not so different from hustling retired New York transit workers during the summer on the Jersey Shore.

One – Something to Listen To – Review

March 1, 1995

With a dash of Live and a hint or two of Violent Femmes, the songs stroll through their easy paces. Middle-of-the-road acoustic rock with sensitive lyrics.

Coroner’s Corner – The Wizard of Gore – Column

March 1, 1995

Montag the Magician performs a magic show and a show-stopping trick with a female audience member. After the show, she is found dead by the method in the trick.