1999 – Page 81 – Lollipop Magazine

Stereolab – Aluminum Tunes (Switched On, Volume 3) – Review

January 1, 1999

At the rate Stereolab pumps out these rarities collections, one has to wonder whether the Marx-Moogs-and-magic collective allows themselves any sleep.

Steel Miners – Ballin’ – Review

January 1, 1999

Ballin’ is less frantic than their debut LP, Irony, and miles away from their molar-diggin’, unhinged Don Fleming-produced after-birth announcement EP, Dig.

Dead Voices On Air – Piss Frond – Review

January 1, 1999

Because of Invisible, I can listen to gems like this. Piss Frond is a great record. Words are trite and don’t really convey anywhere near what’s here.

Dead Boys – All This And More – Review

January 1, 1999

Two discs of live Dead Boys is mebbe more than you’ll wanna listen to in one sitting. Maybe you could listen to one, then go out to a bar and get shitfaced.

St. Etienne – Good Humor – Review

January 1, 1999

This LP is virtually an aural ice sculpture. Not that it sounds inhuman, exactly – it’s coolly synthesized, but not coldly synthetic.

Dash Rip Rock – Paydirt – Review

January 1, 1999

Plodding drums, serious powerchords and grinning vocals merrily punkify all that would be angst in the sometimes honky tonk, occasionally folksy Paydirt.

Squirrel Nut Zippers – Perennial Favorites – Review

January 1, 1999

There are comparable tracks to Hot (a calypso-ish tune, some foot stompers, some ballads), and a pseudo-mid European folk tune, but mostly – it’s Dixieland.

Darkest Hour – The Prophecy, Fulfilled – Review

January 1, 1999

When the band launches from some age-old slow mosh part into a thumpa-thumpa-thumpa part they think is bad-ass, I have to grin and think these guys rule!

Spazboy – Twilight Area – Review

January 1, 1999

Add another name to the long list of pleasantly punky bands who write songs about what losers they are and how everyone’s a jerk.

Crime Family – Rock Cartel – Review

January 1, 1999

CF’s latest, Rock Cartel, is an economy-sized bucket of garage, punk, grunge, and distortion.