Lollipop Magazine

Don Caballero – Singles Breaking Up – Review

April 1, 1999

I’m not a huge fan of instrumental rock, but this collection is pretty impressive: Loud, gut-churning, no skimping on the bombast, yet melodic…

Fortune & Maltese – Review

April 1, 1999

F&M ape their heroes Paul Revere and the Raiders by sporting tri-cornered hats and ruffled shirts and blasting out treble-heavy psych-flavored proto-pop-punk.

Fl. Oz. – Vegetable Kingdom – Review

April 1, 1999

The lively, personable piano takes a flying leap into the musical primelight, dancing audacious circles around its player’s flagrantly uncooperative lyrics.

Divine Empire – Redemption – Review

April 1, 1999

Divine Empire have all the requisite skills for nasty death metal: they’re fast and vicious, have loads of blast beats, crushing vocals, and skillful playing.

Southern/Tree/Polyvinyl – Sampler Fall/Winter 98 – Review

April 1, 1999

Bands like Rainer Maria, Lung Leg, American Football, and Very Secretary all play frolicking indie rock, with an overall light-hearted vibe.

Flotsam And Jetsam – Unnatural Selection – Review

April 1, 1999

This one’s whimsical cover art refers to the band’s self-image as worker ants toiling away at the middle of metal, where nobody seems to be watching.

Dimmu Borgir – Godless Savage Garden – Review

April 1, 1999

It’s a somewhat uneven, but entertaining, little package with pristine production, bound to make the brutal black metallers writhe in anti-commercial pain.

Fifty Tons of Black Terror – Demeter – Review

April 1, 1999

You’re immediately slugged by”Voyeur’s Blues”‘s ham-fists of Big Black love propelled by drunk-on-deltablues harp and creepy Aussie psychophile vox.

D Generation – Through the Darkness – Review

April 1, 1999

Throw this up against Backyard Babies, Hellacopters, Gluecifer, and Turbonegro, and it comes off closer to a spittle-inflected Poison without hooks.

Scratches and Needles – A Tribute to The Nils – Review

April 1, 1999

13-song tribute to bring attention to The Nils, a Canadian punk band from the early ’80s who seem to’ve affected a lot of people yet never got their due.