1996 – Page 63 – Lollipop Magazine

The Third Eye – Column

August 1, 1996

If you could know your future, would you take it? That thing just dangling, enticing, throbbing, ringing in your ears, always lurking there.

Delirium – #3 – Review

August 1, 1996

Tucked between all the interviews are informative tidbits on the myth of Medusa and the Festival of Lammas. Also included is the ubiquitous Gothic poetry.

The Culture Bunker – Beer and Loafing on the Campaign Trail ’96 Part Three: Eerht Trap – Fiction

August 1, 1996

The crowd erupted in cheers and applause. Adulation filled the room as adulation will if you don’t leave the seal on the jar it’s contained in.

Black Moon – #5 – Review

August 1, 1996

A wonderful ‘zine, full of fiction, poetry, reviews and interviews with the top names in Goth/heavy/dark music. The fiction is what really makes this one move.

Norwegian Surgeons – Fiction

August 1, 1996

Seventeen guitars were smashed at the first show. By the time the band broke up, he had smashed 700 guitars, most of them donated, all but the first, stolen.

Karma – Fiction

August 1, 1996

Puking on the subway would be amazing. Everyone would be forced to endure the putrid stink of your throw-up until the next stop. There’s nothing they could do.

Bikini Kill – Reject All American – Review

August 1, 1996

The goose-pimpled rage of the songs and the sadness tucked between them still exists, but what’s different is who’s singing.

Beck – Odalay – Review

August 1, 1996

Astoundingly deft – no matter what mongrel genre catches his eye or what babble-of-the-gods trope trips off his lip, he always keeps one foot in the groove.

Candy Man – Fiction

August 1, 1996

I was the kingpin of the playground candy circuit which ran from my 6th grade year to the summer of junior high. Nobody could touch me.

Battery – Distance – Review

August 1, 1996

A female-fronted melodic industrial electro band. They stick to the slower tempos. Maria Azevedo has a pretty voice, but that’s about as far as it goes.