Lollipop Magazine

Dio – Angry Machines – Review

June 15, 1996

Despite tackling such topic as isolation, divorce, paranoia, and insanity, Dio still sounds like he’s singing “Look out! The sky is falling down!”

Fred Schneider – At the Paradise – Review

June 1, 1996

Schneider’s new project is everything good: Punky, surfy, snarly, edgy, aggressive ripping stuff – injected with a serious sense of fun. It’s not the B-52’s.

X-Members – Down With The Average Joe – Review

June 1, 1996

This is so-so So Cal skate thrash which attempts to pull off a genuine early ’80s hardcore blur, but ends up sounding like a sped-up version of the Offspring.

Velocity Girl – Gilded Stars and Jealous Hearts – Review

June 1, 1996

Each release has been a higher plateau of heart-string plucking, rockin’ sentimentality that gets more difficult to compare with anyone’s sound but their own.

Vampiros Lesbos – Sexadelic Dance Party – Review

June 1, 1996

A ’70s porn funk groove, with sitar, theremin, 13-part resurrection-harp, and a chorus with so much reverb, it sounds like it was recorded in Carlsbad Caverns.

Ultra Lounge – Review

June 1, 1996

We wind down, slip off our shoes, and loosen our ties with Howard Roberts’ “Girl Talk,” and Julie London gets us ready for bed with her very sexy “Go Slow.”

Tube: Atlantic Surf Essentials – Review

June 1, 1996

For a pasty-skinned boy like me, this cosmic go-getter sound is the closest I can get to hitting the waves at Laguna Beach, and I’m getting retarded over it.

The Loungecore Experience – Review

June 1, 1996

These five discs focus more on a rock context, more of a guitar, bass drums, synth/theremin combo.

Buddha Knievil – Freak Magnet / Buddha Knievil split – Review

June 1, 1996

I’d like to tell you what the 33 1/3 side sounds like, but my copy has a huge scratch on it and skips so much that it’s rendered unlistenable.

School House Rock Rocks – Review

June 1, 1996

They gloss over the spoken parts in favor of the melody. But the spoken parts gave the songs their character, and a lot of these bands don’t have any.