Lollipop Magazine

Black Box Recorder – England Made Me – Review

September 1, 1999

The stories are weird, realistic, and leave plenty of room for your mind to color in the humor with a black marker.

Bif Naked – I Bificus – Review

September 1, 1999

The best elements of tough girl rock (think Pat Benetar, Patty Smythe, DiVinyls) with the muscle of Joan Jett and L7, yet infusing it with personal touch.

Asie Payton – Worried – Review

September 1, 1999

Traditional blues standards interpreted by a guy who sounds like a more soulful Howlin’ Wolf who played a cheapo trebly electric Fender rip-off of some sort.

Anti-Flag – A New Kind of Army – Review

September 1, 1999

Anti-Flag are energetic punks with their hearts in the right place, and they put on a great live show, as long as you ignore the stage banter between songs.

Alice Cooper – The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper – Review

September 1, 1999

Part of the crime is how bad some of the material here is – Alice not afraid to suck the tailpipe of trend like a mangy mutt misguidedly after a sugar fix.

Agalloch – Pale Folklore – Review

September 1, 1999

A mixture of Goth rock and black metal vocals, occasional doomy plods, interspersed with wind-swept mountain views and staggering ballerina keyboard tinkles.

AFI – Black Sails in the Sunset – Review

September 1, 1999

No matter what musical genre you play, bad songs are bad songs. And here’s an album full of them.

Sarre-Chasm – Throwing Words Against the Wall – Column

September 1, 1999

Moronic. At base, it’s an insult, but after the late ’70s, it was a compliment in a highbrow-to-low sorta way.

Garbage Pail – Finally! A Scientific Study We Can All Understand! – Column

September 1, 1999

Researchers at UMass released a new study indicating that, contrary to beliefs about its destructive effects, collegiate binge drinking is a fucking blast.

Dwarves – Lick It – Review

September 1, 1999

Plays like blacklight fractured genius. Part Nuggets adulation, a healthy dose of Cramps style un-repentant psychosis, all lathered with oozing sexual whatsis.