Lollipop Magazine

Nick Cave – Murder Ballads – Review

April 1, 1996

This album is crude, raw, imperfect and politically incorrect. It’s also beautiful, but only on its terms, and only on its terms.

Yellow Car – Why Did You Go? – Review

April 1, 1996

Mixing a kinda Canadian punk feel with New York street sneer and a just-shy-of-queasy glam rock sensibility.

New Wet Kojak – Review

April 1, 1996

Elements of lounge, John Zorn, and Tom Waits are stirred in with the shared blood of the savagely smart Girls Against Boys.

Vox Orbita – Review

April 1, 1996

Sounds like a spoiled rich kid who can blow $20,000 on a whim, books a huge block of time in a recording studio to make a CD. He invites his friends over.

Nevertheless – International Research Network – Review

April 1, 1996

This waste of magnetic tape makes me want to douse my body in gasoline and immolate myself in protest against mediocre college rock-pop alterna-spew.

Mystery Machine – 10 Speed – Review

April 1, 1996

Mystery Machine invites the listener in with thick, warm guitars – a welcome change from the usual beat-you-senseless approach.

Virgo Snakes – Review

April 1, 1996

When Bob and Bob scream about being “Sad” over a rank six-string squawk, I believe ’em, but can’t help smiling anyway.

Exotica – Robert Drasnin – Lee Joseph – Interview

April 1, 1996

An interview with Robert Drasnin & Lee Joseph

United – No IQ – Review

April 1, 1996

While No IQ is about as dated as an aging nympho, United has kept current with metal. They cleverly incorporate said sounds into a speedcore cock rock format.

Murder Junkies – Feed My Sleaze – Review

April 1, 1996

GG departed our world over two years ago, but the clean-cut quartet (with new vocalist Mike Denied) has re-emerged with the pithily-titled Feed My Sleaze.