Lollipop Magazine

Steve Roach/ Vidna Obmana – Cavern of Sirens – Review

May 1, 1997

Music for the threshhold between night and day. That brief moment when the sky is unsure about its character, spinning hues of purple and red and pink.

Sloan – One Chord to Another – Review

May 1, 1997

The vocals (and harmonies especially) are examples of almost perfect mimicry of those other two guys who grew up with monarchs on their money.

Silverchair – Freak Show – Review

May 1, 1997

These guys are so far beyond me it’s amazing and things. It’s like they’re poets, except they’ve got guitars. “No more maybes/ Babies got rabies” – I mean, wow.

Flesh and Boredom in Vegas – Part Two – Column

May 1, 1997

KC: I’m the best there is, so everyone should come down and see me.
CB: (sarcastically) You’re not biased at all, are you?
KC: Yes, I am. I love women.

Sid Vicious – Never Mind The Reunion – Review

May 1, 1997

Done Sid’s way. Which is to say it’s incredibly badly recorded, the performances are sloppy as hell, and the audience sounds like a buncha drunken yahoos.

Shiner – Lula Divinia – Review

May 1, 1997

Delicate and heavy, tuned down most of the way through, Moving Pictures Rushlike at times. It’s unpredictable, dissonant, and boasts excellent vocals.

Scorn – Zander – Review

May 1, 1997

Zander can only be understood if one has taken into account Mick Harris’ past efforts, and his ceaseless quest to travel from one extreme to another.

El Dopa – United in States of Narcolepsy – Interview

May 1, 1997

An interview with vocalist/programmer Krishna

Pigeonhed – The Full Sentence – Review

May 1, 1997

The gentlemen whip up several soul-funk concoctions and toss in some gospel-tinge and six-string sludge, but mostly, though, this throbs with sex electronica.

Panasonic – Kulma – Review

May 1, 1997

Some latecomers from Finland, Panasonic, came next, drawing out thin filaments of sound and laying them atop one another to writhe and squirm.