Lollipop Magazine

The Culture Bunker – Raise High the Security Gates, Carpenters – Fiction

January 1, 1999

While it was displaced from the cover story to the Letters section, cut from 26,000 words to 150, it was the most important article I’ve ever had published.

Night Ranger – Seven – Review

January 1, 1999

“Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” and “(You Can Still) Rock in America” are a far cry from this platter of pastries.

New Wave Hookers – Review

January 1, 1999

Loud, crude, and armed with a sense of aesthetics that overwhelms any concept so wad-shot in punk rock as creativity.

Rage Against the Cubicle – Fiction

January 1, 1999

Remember, it’s all about one upsmanship when you’re dealing with hipsters. When they’re ironic, you’ve got to be “ironic.”

Morrissey – My Early Burglary Years – Review

January 1, 1999

How much longer will his dwindling cult put up with this cynical reconfiguration of songs that all of them already purchased before the light finally goes out?

Mock Orange – Nines and Sixes – Review

January 1, 1999

There is not one bad note, not one bad riff, not one bad melody line, not one bad arrangement, and not one bad song on this album.

Migraines – Juvenilia – Review

January 1, 1999

Migraines are best noted for being one of the few bands almost no one’s ever heard of, but everyone will confuse with Vindictive and/or Sloppy Seconds.

Midget – Jukebox – Review

January 1, 1999

They really oughtta come to terms with the fact that they’re better at dippy, punky pop than filtering the Beatles through too many Goo Goo Dolls records.

MC5 – Starship – Review

January 1, 1999

Recorded a scant four months before Kick Out the Jams, Starship is virtually the alternative (read: “less listenable”) take of their first record.

Lostsouls – Fracture – Review

January 1, 1999

Combining elements of Korn, Machine Head, Fear Factory, and Meshuggah, it’s surprising that I have little more to say than, “Wow! Great Production!”