1999 – Page 76 – Lollipop Magazine

The Murder City Devils – Empty Bottles Broken Hearts – Review

January 1, 1999

MCD fills Empty Bottles with more high-octane punk intoxicants than can be legally sold in the Bible Belt on Sundays.

Gilby Clarke – Rubber – Review

January 1, 1999

An amalgam of post-rock ride wisdoms rendered in guitar-fueled glam, smartly off base from the new pop, but coming from the same well.

The Lurkers – Greatest Hit – Review

January 1, 1999

The Lurkers, FYI, were first generation UK punkers, messy partiers like the Damned, but musically more deliberate.

Gearwhore – Drive – Review

January 1, 1999

It’s harsh enough for industrial fans and dance-oriented enough for club kids and has every right to sound like Chicago industrial.

The Lemonheads – The Best of the Lemonheads – Review

January 1, 1999

Evan Dando’s poppy platitudes to drugs, homosexuality, and other grungeisms have been culled from four saccharine albums and a handful of singles and EPs.

Galactic Cowboys – At The End Of The Day – Review

January 1, 1999

A slight left turn into a more immediate, dirt-faced sound, courtesy of drummer Alan Doss, who produced and mixed the whole Cheap Tricked starburst.

The Leaving Trains – Favorite Mood Swings – Review

January 1, 1999

Unappreciated and unknown, they create usually short, sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant rock’n’roll which veers from driving punk to drunken country blues.

Vigilante 8 – Review

January 1, 1999

What could be better than having 12 screaming, supercharged v8-powered vintage ’70s war wagons with enough firepower to level a small town at your control?

The La Donnas – Rock You All Night Long – Review

January 1, 1999

This Denver-based crew walk a mile high in their Converse All-Stars, constructin’ 2:30 punk rock epics.

The Fifth Element – Review

January 1, 1999

An enhanced Nightmare Creatures engine and the blockbuster movie combine to make one of the year’s best action-adventure games for the PlayStation.