Lollipop Magazine

Amsvartner – The Trollish Mirror – Review

January 1, 2000

Released in ’97, finally licensed and released in the States. A good bit of Swedish blackened death metal in the vein of Sacramentum and Dissection.

Cleveland Bound Death Sentence – Review

January 1, 2000

This EP compiles 7″s and comp tracks, and is ugly and pure enough to be called punk without any qualifiers. Fourteen songs in 18 minutes. You do the math.

The Neckbones – The Lights are Getting Dim – Review

January 1, 2000

Unselfconscious, unrepentant rock’n’roll music about drinkin’, screwin’, gamblin’, and shooting out the window’s of yer ex’s car “just for fun.”

Piecemeal – Die My Will – Split – Review

January 1, 2000

These guys must’ve realized, “Hey, if we’re gonna keep beating the dead horse that is metalcore, why not at least fuck it up beyond recognition?”

Hell Bottled Up – Chronicles of a Late Propaganda Minister – Fiction

January 1, 2000

By December of 1984, I had soaked up whatever the University of California-Santa Barbara had used to lure me in from high school. I was helplessly alcoholic, perpetually stoned, given to wide, introspective mood swings, and altogether dangerous to myself and those close-by.

Fetish Blonde – John Gilmore – Review

January 1, 2000

Love. Violence. A shoulders’ width apart at terror’s doorway. At any moment, sudden death, or illumination, or spontaneous orgasm, are all possible here.

American Football- Review

January 1, 2000

Fronted by Cap’n Jazz/Joan of Arc alumni, Mike Kinsella, American Football is filled with Heartland aroma that only Midwestern farm boys could cook up.

Bridges With Spirit – Adam Voith – Review

January 1, 2000

Bridges reads like a serial run of timeline postcards, a visual diary peppered with bits of magnetic poetry-constructed prose, voiced by an impressionable kid.

The Mullens – Go Where the Action Is – Review

January 1, 2000

Like a turbo-charged Pinto roaring off to the mid-ranks of mediocrity, Get Hip Records gives the world the second full-length from the Mullens.

Amen – Review

January 1, 2000

A punked-up force addressing many current metal flavors: A little bit of Korn Chamber, a cold-steel taste of Sevendustrial, and hard habits from hardcore.