Lollipop Magazine

Pressure Point – Life’s Blood – Review

September 1, 1999

Authentically under-produced by Lars Fredericksen, spouting working class ethics and a message of unity.

Pressure Point – Cross to Bear – Review

September 1, 1999

Boots, shaved heads, and having each others backs’ is what it’s all about. Violence when necessary, booze whenever possible, and unity above all.

Earthwurm – Blank the Same – Review

September 1, 1999

While Earthwurm’s debut, Sex and Anxiety, evidently had more hip-hoppy metal on it, but luckily Blank the Same is more traditional, passionate rock/metal.

Plastique – Empire Of The Black Suns – Review

September 1, 1999

Barely angry, barely alive, wholly without talent, and shoe-gazed like weak Halifax grunge.

Pinhead Circus – Everything Else is a Gone Conclusion – Review

September 1, 1999

A fave Colorado punk band (and there’s a surprising number of good bands from the state that gave us Coors and Mork & Mindy, in case you haven’t noticed).

Spitfire – The Dead Next Door – Review

September 1, 1999

Got the energy, spastic tendencies, torturous sludge grinds, eye-popping screams, evil guitars, and all-around noisy shit to fit right in with the family.

Piebald – If It Weren’t For Venetian Blinds, It Would Be Curtains For All Of Us – Review

September 1, 1999

There’s enough empty silliness in the music that makes this Piebald album, for once, work. Yes, you heard it right: This is not that bad a record.

Spirit Caravan – Jug Fulla Sun – Review

September 1, 1999

The sound is a fully rounded slice of drone biker/doom that owes less to anything specific than the general man vs. nature rock as rock push.

Hooray for Everything! – Fiction

September 1, 1999

“I am intelligent, a person of deep ideas, and therefore I enjoy Pavement,” we told ourselves. Alas, we can fool ourselves no longer.

Pezz – Warmth and Sincerity – Review

September 1, 1999

Warmth saturates this Albini-produced record. Pezz have a consistency that makes the whole album worth spinning.