March, 2002 | Lollipop Magazine

Devotchkas – Live Fast…Die Young – Review

March 29, 2002

Devotchkas are like a female version of The Unseen, but without the ability to write dumb punk songs well.

Dead Red Sea – Birds – Review

March 29, 2002

It’s actually quite melancholy and touching, it just that it doesn’t live up to what I expected from ex-Cross My Heart guitarist/vocalist Ryan Shelkett.

Fu Manchu – California Crossing – Interview

March 29, 2002

An interview with singer Scott Hill

In Control – Another Year – Review

March 29, 2002

In Control supposedly follows the footsteps of Nardcore past greats (i.e. Scared Straight), but in reality they’re just a Strife rip-off.

Dawncore – Entertainment for the Best – Review

March 29, 2002

Good nose-breaking, arms-flailing, falling-down-a-glass-covered-flight-of-stairs kind of intensity matched with strong riffage. From Budapest, Hungary.

Heavenly – Sign of the Winner – Review

March 29, 2002

These guys began as a classic rock cover band called Satan’s Lawyer. That’s kinda funny. They thunder and spiral and cascade and zip and sizzle and all that.

Green Carnation – Light of Day, Day of Darkness – Review

March 29, 2002

One continuous hour-long song, yet is somehow an effortless listen, a plush escape combining Amorphis, Floyd, folk, and the most frigid of Scandinavian dooms.

Glasseater – 7Yearsbadluck – Review

March 29, 2002

Glasseater are one of those not-very-good punk bands that copped a different, not-very-imaginative style (in this case hardcore yelling) and still sucks.

Toilet Boys – Review

March 29, 2002

I’ve never understood the fuss about these guys… They aren’t nearly as good as Pretty Boy Floyd were, and they’re not as good as the Backyard Babies are.

Lullacry – Be My God – Review

March 22, 2002

Ball-out female-fronted rock firmly planted in the sound of today and a classic style that’s too busy having a blast to give a rat’s ass if you think it’s cool.