May, 2002 | Lollipop Magazine

Judas Priest – Live – Review

May 31, 2002

Offers a strange and rearranged “Screaming For Vengeance,” a spirited “Rock Hard, Ride Free” and “Hell Bent For Leather,” which can do no wrong.

Johnny Cash – Ragged Old Flag – Review

May 31, 2002

A tribute to the American people: The blue-collar working people who probably shared Cash’s concern and disgust with the national mood.

Traitors – Everything Went Shit – Review

May 31, 2002

A collection of the band’s first “lost” album along with multiple 7″/comp/unreleased tracks. Traitors were Naked Raygun on a tea-bagging spree.

Johnny Cash – America: A 200-Year Salute In Story and Song – Review

May 31, 2002

America… is the history of this country as told by Johnny Cash, set off by the occasional spoken word piece, if ya can’t follow it by the music alone.

Tommy Guerrero – Junk Collector – Review

May 31, 2002

Tommy Guerrero has seen his share of the underground. Junk Collector EP is a Sebadoh-meets-trip-hop amalgamation that belies his opening for DOA and Bad Brains.

Lost Goat – The Dirty Ones – Review

May 31, 2002

Treading some odd middle ground between angular, atmospheric indie rock and floorboard-rumbling ’70s-flavored hard blues rock, it’s familiar yet also fresh.

Electric Frankenstein – Supersuckers – Welcome to Splitsville – Review

May 31, 2002

Supersuckers and Electric Frankenstein are two of the better and longer-lived bands playing punk & garage-derived rock and roll, though their approaches differ.

Adam West – Right On! – Review

May 31, 2002

The riffs are pig-iron simple, the singer brash and manly, and the tempo is set on quick and sweaty. Has real tunes and personality.

New Bomb Turks – Spanish Fly By Night – Interview

May 31, 2002

An interview with Eric Davidson, Matt Reber, Jim Reber, and Sam Brown

Knut – Review

May 31, 2002

A four-song fix. Knut experiences the same pain, rage, and violent creative urge that their brothers-in-post-hardcore-arms like Burnt By The Sun and Botch do.