1996 – Page 97 – Lollipop Magazine

Mason Dixon Mayhem – Review

April 1, 1996

It’s good we have hardcore, because it’s the perfect release for youngsters who, otherwise, would be robbing 7-11s and driving their cars into telephone poles.

Overcome – Blessed Are The Persecuted – Review

April 1, 1996

Hailing from Arizona, these Christian lads put the positivity and fellowship back into hardcore. Their topics deal with pain, lies, sexism, and similar themes.

EyeHateGod – Dopesick – Interview

April 1, 1996

An interview with guitarist Brian Patton

Live at the Bottom of the Hill – Review

April 1, 1996

A live show at The Bottom of the Hill club in San Francisco featuring The Nukes, Jack Killed Jill, Social Unrest, and Swinging Utters was recorded.

Only Living Witness – “Freaklaw” – Review

April 1, 1996

Their last single before calling it quits. Although they’re lumped into the hardcore community, they remind me more of Blue Cheer and Motörhead’s slower stuff.

1996 Part One – Review

April 1, 1996

Rollins’ label pays tribute to a long tradition of underground poetic intelligentsia who express their vision through rock ‘n’ roll, free jazz, and spoken-word.

Nick Cave – Murder Ballads – Review

April 1, 1996

This album is crude, raw, imperfect and politically incorrect. It’s also beautiful, but only on its terms, and only on its terms.

Yellow Car – Why Did You Go? – Review

April 1, 1996

Mixing a kinda Canadian punk feel with New York street sneer and a just-shy-of-queasy glam rock sensibility.

New Wet Kojak – Review

April 1, 1996

Elements of lounge, John Zorn, and Tom Waits are stirred in with the shared blood of the savagely smart Girls Against Boys.

Vox Orbita – Review

April 1, 1996

Sounds like a spoiled rich kid who can blow $20,000 on a whim, books a huge block of time in a recording studio to make a CD. He invites his friends over.