February 2002 – Page 20 – Lollipop Magazine

Against All Authority – Nothing New for Trash Like You – Review

February 22, 2002

18 out-of-print/hard-to-find songs from 1992-2000. You either love/admire these guys or ya hate preachy ska-punk in general, these guys in particular.

Murder Squad – Unsane, Insane, and Mentally Deranged – Review

February 22, 2002

Members of Carnage, Merciless, Dismember, and Entombed bring you the kind of wide-eyed innocence that gore metal hasn’t seen since its humble beginnings.

Mors Syphilitica – Feather and Fate – Review

February 22, 2002

Three long years since Mors Syphilitica released an album. Feather and Fate brings a wealth of diversity and complexity not found in previous releases.

The Newlydeads – Dead End – Review

February 22, 2002

Glam leftovers playing what they think is industrial, yet they’re so drug-addled and kinda dim, that the end result is accidentally kinda cool.

Firewater – Psychopharmacology – Interview

February 22, 2002

An interview with singer Tod A

Moods For Moderns – Loud & Clear – Review

February 22, 2002

Musically referencing everything that ruled in the world of ’60s guitar pop – Badfinger and Jackie Lomax – they nail the fuzzy riffs and vintage drum sounds.

The Nerve Agents – The Butterfly Collection – Review

February 22, 2002

The Nerve Agents are pretty good tho’, once ya get passed their pissed-offness (if ya wanna, mebbe ya don’t).

The Neatbeats – Mercurial – Review

February 22, 2002

Japan’s Neatbeats make it their lives’ work to duplicate early ’60s teenybeat pop stuff like The Beatles and everyone else honed their chops on.

Monstrosity – Enslaving the Masses – Review

February 22, 2002

A two-disc retrospective from one of death metal’s most underrated old timers.

Them Wranch – Medium Rare – Review

February 22, 2002

Cast-off cuts copped offa Davie Allin fuzz and Flo and Eddy bup bups, Keith Moon fills circa the first or second Who record coexisting with double entendres.