Lollipop Magazine

So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star – Review

October 4, 2004

Part band-bio (Slichter was the drummer for Semisonic) and part music-biz expose, this book has the potential to appeal to several distinct groups of people.

The Self-Destruction Handbook – Review

October 4, 2004

Who’d’ve thought a stick figure drawing could make you laugh out loud? If your sense of humor is sick, twisted, and extremely cynical, get this book right now.

The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time – Review

October 4, 2004

Martin Popoff returns, ranking hot slabs of molten steel by votes taken amongst the genre’s participants (bands, journalists, label heads, PR staff, etc.).

What Is Goth? – Review

October 4, 2004

Besides making me smile, laugh, giggle, and nod my head in agreement, What Is Goth? made me want to read more Voltaire. Search out his Oh My Goth! as well.

Josh Todd – You Made Me – Review

October 4, 2004

I dig You Made Me more than I ever did Josh Todd’s hyped and strangely suspicious Buckcherry. There’s an emotional rawness to this thing.

Mitch Hedberg – Mitch All Together – Interview

October 4, 2004

An interview with Mitch Hedberg

Underground Station – Column

October 4, 2004

In an odd recycling, underground comix legend Spain has moved towards a new comic action hero that is totally reminiscent of his earlier comix hero, Trashman.