May 1996 – Page 10 – Lollipop Magazine

Bald Guys – Teleport/Secret Mission to Spy Island – Interview

May 1, 1996

An interview with Rich Wentworth, Carolyn Klumpp, Duggy C.

Everdown – Straining – Review

May 1, 1996

These guys play energetic, melodic hardcore decorated with movie samples that immediately makes your body move. The music is extremely tight.

Possession: African Dub – Off World One – Review

May 1, 1996

With a stretched out, relaxed time frame, Laswell and three other musicians create atmospheres on that drive the spirit and the mind into new territory.

Pan-Thy-Monium – Ill Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-ion – Review

May 1, 1996

Expect the unexpected, as blast beats overlap swinging sax while walls of noise merge into pan flute parts – all throwing your head for motion overload.

Eugene Chadbourne & Jimmy Carl Black – Pachuco Cadaver – Review

May 1, 1996

Beefheartian purists may blanch at the liberties Eug ‘n’ Jim have taken – Chad taking known tunes and wringing ’em out ’til they’re scarcely recognizable.

Elend – Les Tenebres du Dehors – Review

May 1, 1996

Using opulent, romantic and classical formations, Elend twists the overly consonant traditions and skews the melodies to redirect them in the darkness.

O.Z. Willis – The Great Unwashed – Review

May 1, 1996

A rock band from Albany, NY, with music school credentials, experimental tinkerings, and white boy funk/blues rock stagger/industrial metal, on one CD.

Overkill – The Killing Kind – Review

May 1, 1996

While the second half may slump into rebel stomp mediocrity, weighty Metallica-esque conceptualizations, and a ballad, the record starts off strong, really.

Edgewise – Review

May 1, 1996

A punishing mish-mosh of hard notes and vocals. This band sounds like a vacuum of hardcore influences being rolled together and churned out as one.

O-matic – Dog Years – Review

May 1, 1996

With the longest song clocking in at just over three minutes, O-matic wastes no time in getting down to the business of getting down to business.