Lollipop Magazine

Drew Isleib – Sounds Through the Wall – Review

January 10, 2003

Drew just had to wrench out a few “Iiiiyyyye”s and “yeeeaaaah”s for my inner grandmother to declare, “Oy.” Then she added, “Vat’s wrong, he’s constipated?”

Dredg – El Cielo – Review

January 10, 2003

Why can’t modern rock sound like this? Ambitious, melodic streams of aggression mixed with cloud-splitting choruses that raise your arms to the sky.

Subsonic – Super-Vel – Review

January 10, 2003

Ex-Celtic Frost guitarist Ron Marks releases a schizophrenic collage of thoughts and styles with bar-band production and some creative studio tricks.

Sick Of It All – Live in a Dive – Review

January 10, 2003

Live in a Dive has the band tear through songs from each of their records, sounding as blood-boilingly exciting as the first hardcore show you ever went to.

Original Sinners – Review

January 10, 2003

Exene’s latest project, the Original Sinners, are like “X for beginners.” The band is tighter than X was, and certainly has more musical tricks up its sleeve.

Of Montreal – Aldhils Arboretum – Review

January 10, 2003

Like most of the other Elephant 6 related stuff I’ve heard, this seem an attempt to write Smile, Brian Wilson’s ill-fated, unfinished follow-up to Pet Sounds.

Sing, Tweedy-bird, Sing! – An “interview” with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy – Fiction

January 3, 2003

World Famous Music/Film/Theatre/Fashion/ Media Critic Jean-Paul Bavard met recently with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco for an exclusive interview, in which they discussed Wilco’s music, the recently released film about them, struggles with their previous label, and the pressures of fame.

January 2003

Drew Isleib – Sounds Through the Wall – Review

Dredg – El Cielo – Review

Subsonic – Super-Vel – Review

Sick Of It All – Live in a Dive – Review

Original Sinners – Review

Of Montreal – Aldhils Arboretum – Review

Sing, Tweedy-bird, Sing! – An “interview” with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy – Fiction

Zeromancer – Eurotrash – Review

Zao – A Parade of Chaos – Review

Without Face – Astronomicon – Review