Lollipop Magazine

Herbert Huncke Reader – Review

April 1, 1999

A splatterful of previously-unpublished scrawls from America’s Genet; graceful nobility amid thieving, street-hustling, hypodermic dreams.

Bassholes- When My Blue Moon Turns Red Again – Review

April 1, 1999

They capture all the noise they can make and layer it like coats of sonic grime to produce their most Punk Rock with a capital “R” record ever.

Chapter VII: All Men are Liars – Review

April 1, 1999

If you want empirical proof that the Blues are still around us, livin’ and breathin’ and bleedin’, look no further than Fat Possum Records of Oxford, MS.

The Chicken Hawks – Siouxicide City – Review

April 1, 1999

The Chicken Hawks are the dirtiest, sleaziest, Stoogiest glamsters to be run outta Sioux City, Iowa since, well, since anybody.

Astrud – Review

April 1, 1999

Chicks doing lounge pop/ Make me want – hah? It’s a guy? Shit! Am I gay now?

Compression – Review

April 1, 1999

Compression experiment with their songs and turn brutality into something interesting.

Hail Babylon! – Andrei Codrescu – Review

April 1, 1999

Disappointed in his search for The New World, he finds instead a land laden with the crass mechanical plumbing of commercialism.

Garbage Pail – Movie Combinations – Column

April 1, 1999

Movie Combinations: Boogie Nights of the Living Dead. There’s Something about Moll Flanders. Bound to Crash on a Lost Highway.

Co-Ed – Sometimes Always Maybe Never – Review

April 1, 1999

Female-fronted powerpop/punkpop with tight musicianship, infectious melodies, and meaty-yet-radio-friendly (enough) production.

Blood of Mugwump – Doug Rice – Review

April 1, 1999

Legend and confusion serenade the mystery of the day when an entire roomful of students were consumed by the Earth after a reading of the book.