Lollipop Magazine

Old Time Relijun – Witchcraft Rebellion – Review

February 8, 2002

Witchcraft Rebellion is a strange mix of Captain Beefheart, NYC No Wave, and the kind of ineptitude that leads to creativity.

Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets – Review

February 8, 2002

Welcome to a kindler, gentler, and less brutal Neurosis, and one of the best albums of 2001.

Black Box Recorder – The Worst Of – Review

February 8, 2002

Like a pretty demon, Nixey powders her vixen voice and softly jolts listeners with lines like “whatever happened to good old-fashioned brutality?”

Bitch And Animal – Eternally Hard – Review

February 8, 2002

They spray Eau de Lesbos from their unshaven armpits. They are butch and blatant, miles from the closet, loud as a cranked amp. This is womyn cock rock.

DMZ – Live at the Rat – Review

February 8, 2002

Here we got DMZ’s raw power garage shakers live in grimy black and white circa 1976 along with a whole lotta ’93 reunion – not space-filler neither.

Guttermouth – Covered with Ants – Review

February 8, 2002

Truth is, I’ve run outta new ways to describe Guttermouth’s fast’n’snotty punk antics, but that’s OK, cuz they’re basically repeating themselves by now anyway.

Godgory – Way Beyond – Review

February 8, 2002

Mostly decent doom stutter’n’stumble, the kinda choppy, “binary”-style Meshuggah whips about, but here slinkily coils slowly around your ankles like nü metal.

Travis – The Invisible Band – Review

February 8, 2002

The world’s favorite working class-yet-gentle Scotsmen have upped the saccharine and downed the shoegazing on their third record, much to diehard fans’ dismay.

TransChamps – Double Exposure – Review

February 8, 2002

Two of the best post-rock ensembles get together and come up with twisted, sometimes hilarious, creations that evoke Iron Maiden, Joan Of Arc, and Cheap Trick.

Red Planet – Let’s Degenerate – Review

February 2, 2002

While the fruity squealing vocals still remind me of Gaza Stripper Rick Simms with his nuts caught in his zipper, Cheap Trick’s Zander sung pretty as a girl.