Lollipop Magazine

Statistics – Leave Your Name – Review

July 26, 2004

Beautifully arranged piano and guitar interplay blended with the bittersweet vocals create a wholly breathtaking and engrossing album that I fell in love with.

Thulsa Doom – …and then take you to a place where jars are kept – Review

July 26, 2004

These guys heave a chunk through the plate glass window stoner rock stares through checking out kickass. Pair’m with their brethern Bad Wizard on a 2-year tour.

Thought Riot – Sketches of Undying Will – Review

July 26, 2004

Thought Riot play an intriguing blend of anthemic ’80s hardcore and aimless ’90s emo melded with relentless metal spirit.

The Wildhearts – Riff After Riff – Review

July 26, 2004

Greatest hits cobbled together for the U.S.. Power pop melodies, rocker chomp, Mod flair, rock and roll tunes, perfectly-placed hooks, and unexpected heft.

There – We Are – Review

July 26, 2004

Chopping a bit of Motörhead speed into powerhawg bellbottomed Nixon-era lines will spin your head just right. Sabbath covers are as obvious as they are correct.

The God Awfuls – Next Stop Armageddon – Review

July 26, 2004

An incredibly intense chunk of punk from the way-back machine. Vitriolic rage with the catchiness of The Adicts and the acidic bite of Angelic Upstarts.

The Get Up Kids – Guilt Show – Review

July 26, 2004

Guilt Show is a perfect mix of the reckless pop thrill of The Get Up Kids’ classics and the subtle shifts in tone, tempo, and style that defined On a Wire.

The Dishes – 3 – Review

July 26, 2004

The tunes are there, the playing hits notes and beats hard enough to bloody any nose, and the recording is great.

The Cooper Temple Clause – Kick Up The Fire, and Let the Flames Break Loose – Review

July 26, 2004

A hybrid of Britpop, industrial noise, dance beats, and surprisingly loud, cacophonous choruses, the band can’t seem to figure out what it does best.

The Casualties – On the Front Line – Review

July 26, 2004

Where’s Jello Biafra when you need him? He said more politically in one Dead Kennedys song than all the Exploited wanna-be bands’ entire discographies COMBINED.