Lollipop Magazine

Fracture – with Fade, One of Us, You Shriek at the Middle East Cafe – Review

February 1, 1996

The music was uneven and unintentionally jarring, what with certain samples jumping out in the mix, giving a choppy, unrefined sound. But I know they’re good.

Fade – with Fracture, One of Us, You Shriek at the Middle East Cafe – Review

February 1, 1996

The singer was a slim boy, with black hair and an absolutely gorgeous face. He sang like a young Robert Smith. The music was fluid, graceful, and moving.

EBN – with Banco De Gaia at Mama Kin – Review

February 1, 1996

EBN’s brand of multimedia assault – combining video, audio, and all around spectacle – is far too much for the un-turned-on mind to assimilate all at once.

Die Krupps – with Sister Machine Gun at Axis – Review

February 1, 1996

He had a penchant for doing “the stadium intro” (where he yells the name of the upcoming song hoping for applause of recognition) but nobody got into it.

Cubanate – with Ultraviolence, Zia at The Rat – Review

February 1, 1996

Vocalist Marc Heal is similar to a psycho queen techno-Lemmy with a frog in his throat. That’s good, by the way.

Bob Dylan – with Patti Smith at the Orpheum – Review

February 1, 1996

Dylan is not a great performer. May I be struck with hundreds of voodoo pins, but Dylan has not progressed. He can write a good lyric, but that’s about it.

Banco De Gaia – with EBN at Mama Kin – Review

February 1, 1996

The lights lowered and a man crouched behind his mixing board and computers and cued the intro for Last Train to Lhasa. That’s when all hell broke loose.

Liquor Lecture – Bourbon – Column

February 1, 1996

Ah, bourbon. The premier of brown liquors. Visions of rednecks with Jack Daniels T-shirts and tuxedo-clad socialites in ballrooms sit comfortably side by side.

Idle Chatter- Column

February 1, 1996

Evidently, resurrecting Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert wasn’t enough, ’cause ’96 has brought us daily showings of The Best of American Bandstand.