Lollipop Magazine

CD Reviews – Fiction

July 1, 1997

Adjectives like weighty, consequential, formidable, semiligneous, and oss-eous don’t do this band justice. Nor do nouns like peplum, kirguiz, and quinquereme.

Coroner’s Corner – Anaconda: The Must Miss of the Year – Column

July 1, 1997

I learned all I need to know about this film just seeing the preview: Mainly, the movie reeks.

Fibroid Chitlin interview – Fiction

July 1, 1997

Fibroid Chitlin: An interview with Chthulu Rhys-Jones by TZ and Mike.

Atari Teenage Riot – Burn, Berlin, Burn! – Interview

July 1, 1997

An interview with Alec Empire

Helium – No Guitars – Review

July 1, 1997

No Guitars is a pretty darn fine pop, luminous enough to stay the granola-folk gag reflex the stated concept and butterfly cover art may arouse.

Gene – Drawn to the Deep End – Review

July 1, 1997

From the first moments, you drown in a wash of rich orchestration and entrancing melody lines that draw you into singer Martin Rossiter’s enchanting world.

Galaxie 500 – Copenhagen – Review

July 1, 1997

A live record of Boston’s favorite inertia quartet, Galaxie 500, from a recording made by Danish National Radio in the misty days of 1990.

Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead – Review

July 1, 1997

Jimmy the Saint is a smoothy, a hopeless romantic, and he’s genuine. He’s falling for Dagney (Gabrielle Anwar) which is as inevitable as falling for gravity.

The Ghost and the Darkness – Review

July 1, 1997

Telling the tale of man-eating lions who terrorized the railroad-building village of Tsavo, Africa in 1896, The Ghost and the Darkness transcends man-vs-beast.

The Blind Lead – Review

July 1, 1997

Johnny Boy wrote a play that has something to do with why he, his girlfriend, and friend drive to New York. Inspired by either Nick Zedd or John Cassavettes.