1996 – Page 82 – Lollipop Magazine

187 Calm – Review

May 1, 1996

After toiling for three years in obscurity, this dark, brooding, quasi-Goth metal trio from San Francisco has started to get the notoriety they deserve.

Troy – Everything/West Chicago One (7″) – Review

May 1, 1996

Both tunes boast honest, intelligent lyrics and satisfying, sassy melodies, but that’s where the similarities end.

Trip 66 – Review

May 1, 1996

This extraordinary debut is loaded with heavy, pounding guitar sounds, immense percussion, and clever bass lines. Maria has the most amazing set of pipes.

Tracy and the Hindenburg Ground Crew – Margaret Dumont – Review

May 1, 1996

You have to wade through a good twenty minutes of tepid acoustic goof rock before you get to the real meat of “I Like Being Alone” and “French H20.”

Too Much Joy – Finally – Review

May 1, 1996

Their silliness keeps “serious” rock fans away, while their intelligence scares off those looking for pure fun.

The RockATeens – Review

May 1, 1996

Take yer basic psychosurf and rootsrock barnstomp, add some barely passable guitar playing, a little simplistic drumming, and a bunch of fairly awful singing.

The Moog Cookbook – Review

May 1, 1996

Ten grunge-era standards performed as if Walter/Wendy Carlos was the main talis(wo)man of modern music rather than, say, Sabbath or the Stooges.

Jonny Polonsky – with Frank Black at the Paradise – Review

May 1, 1996

Polonsky makes power pop the way it ought to be, I thought – loud, hard, slightly intimidating, but at the same time, slightly nuts.

The Meices – Dirty Bird – Review

May 1, 1996

The Meices are unafraid to be melodic, even sensitive, but still retain the flip exuberance that makes the rough stuff fun.

Hagfish – at Pearl Street – Review

May 1, 1996

They kicked my sorry rear-end with a combination of punky bravado and sassy stage delivery when I saw them live.