June 1996 – Page 4 – Lollipop Magazine

The Spinanes – Strand – Review

June 1, 1996

Deciding to “get serious” and move from their place of consummation to a ramshackle industrial town, the couple become Homer and Marge Simpson on a bad day.

The Sort of Quartet – Kiss Me Twice I’m Schizo – Review

June 1, 1996

SST used to be one of the few labels to put out this kind of adventuresome art-punk-jazz-rock music, and Kiss Me Twice I’m Schizo lives up to the old standard.

The Magdalenes – “Threadbare” / “Harvest” – Review

June 1, 1996

J. V. McDonough has one of the most honey-laced voices I’ve heard in years, and brings it all back to the original country divas of the past.

Frank Black – with Jonny Polonsky at the Paradise – Review

June 1, 1996

The crowd pogoed and surfed and thrashed to Black’s amazing blend of melodic hooks, sonic vision, and pure creative weirdness.

Bald Guys – with The Fliptones, Tidal Waves, the Ray Corvair Trio at the Rat – Review

June 1, 1996

With Lars on sax and drunken Bob on strings, the sonic surfers ripped through a high tide of classic covers and variations on their own originals.

The Husbians – Unpopular Flips – Review

June 1, 1996

They are committed to every minute of the production. The songs are thick and powerful, the melodies tasteful and attributable to an Elvis Costello influence.

The Freewheelers – Waitin’ For George – Review

June 1, 1996

One of the few bands to take the whole ’70s worship sensibility and truly craft it into something special instead of just more greasy hair and polyester.

Teen Idols – Nightmares – Review

June 1, 1996

Breaking up, drag racing, the-Ramones-live punk is alive and well, and these Nashville punks are eating it up.

Tangerine Dream – Book of Dreams – Review

June 1, 1996

A mixture of windpipe cheese, and driving synth beats, Book of Dreams is filled with dramatic highs, sorrowful lows, and longing glances out the window.

Syd Straw – War and Peace – Review

June 1, 1996

After seven years of gathering musical fodder, Syd Straw is back; her songwriting skills and gutsy, yet ethereal, voice as strong as ever.