Lollipop Magazine

Tura Satana – Relief Through Release – Review

April 1, 1998

Tura Satana’s guitar-bass-drum troupe pumps out a dynamic chunky metal barrage that alternates between brutal riffs and tension-building grooves.

Spahn Ranch – Architecture – Review

April 1, 1998

While their last two albums had stripped everything down to a pumping beat and noisy vocals, Architecture takes a sharp left turn and punches the gas.

Transister – Review

April 1, 1998

Powdery, girl-woman vocals drive deep into voluptuous minor chords, evoking something of Elastica, an element of Garbage, and a good measure of Eurythmics.

Solarus – Empty Nature – Review

April 1, 1998

Dark dub meets My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. A little too over-the-top to be creepy, but a good listen nonetheless.

Snap-Her – Queen Bitch of Rock ‘n’ Roll – Review

April 1, 1998

Snotty punk rawk in all its grimy, sloppy beauty! Mixing acidic humor with a snarling guitar/vocal team-up, Andi Beltramo lives up to the album’s title.

Scorn – Whine – Review

April 1, 1998

Mick Harris has long surpassed his Napalm Death days, going so far as to say “All rock is shit. I’m not interested in it. It’s stagnant.” So. Now?

Sacred Reich – Still Ignorant (1987-1997) Live – Review

April 1, 1998

I have the Surf Nicaragua EP on CD, cassette, and picture disc. That and Ignorant are plenty for me, thanks. Tech metal is dead.

Today is the Day – Temple of the Moving Star – Review

April 1, 1998

TITD sawed the audience in half with overdriven guitar, creative sampling, and drumming that would have sounded appropriate on Led Zeppelin’s Moby Dick.

Riot – Inishmore -Review

April 1, 1998

The ’80s are over and so are layered harmonies, classical guitar wanking, vocal warbling, and Whitesnake-sounding, lyrically-inane, hard rock posturing.

Richie Sambora – Undiscovered Soul – Review

April 1, 1998

JBJ rewrote the same few great songs so many times, I’d’ve thought Richie would’ve learned how to do it by now. Or at least be able to fake it.