Lollipop Magazine

Sub Zero – Happiness Without Peace – Review

September 1, 1996

Good, clean, slamming fun with positive messages, sing-a-long choruses, and a few funny, sampled intros.

Stisism – “Bacon Man” / “Traffic Jam” – Review

September 1, 1996

Stisism’s rawness is straight outta the garage, yet unlike many garage punk bands, once yer head starts moving it doesn’t stop.

Spring Heeled Jack – Static World View – Review

September 1, 1996

These boys from Connecticut play some incredible, fast, third wave ska that I’m still trying to describe.

Spongehead – Review

September 1, 1996

SpongeHead, like Morphine, breaks the guitar/bass/drums mold, with the bass sounds provided by an electric sax played through a Ragnarok amp.

Splitsville – Splitsville USA – Review

September 1, 1996

Happy go lucky punk rock (and roll). If Calvin and Hobbes were allowed to have punk rock, this would be their gem.

Smog – Kicking A Couple Around – Review

September 1, 1996

Smog take themselves way too seriously. Conceptually, it works, though it can be a bit trying on the patience.

Sixteen Horsepower – Sackcloth and Ashes – Review

September 1, 1996

If Echo & The Bunnymen ever soundtracked a Western directed by Sam Peckinpah, it would sound like this.

Sisterboy – I Wish to You – Review

September 1, 1996

A strange combination of ’50s and ’60s sci-fi/horror movie (in)sensibility, dub, trip hop, Bowie, and random sound effects.

Sheila Chandra – A Bone Crone Drone – Review

September 1, 1996

Over a period of several minutes, she introduces and expresses what she hears in the drone, gently, smoothly, softly. She lets the drone fill most of the space.

Sheep on Drugs – Double Trouble – Review

September 1, 1996

These two guys have an earsplittingly depraved live set that takes the usual confrontation artistry of heavy industrial music a few baby steps forward.