Lollipop Magazine

Monkey Paw – Honkey Kong – Review

March 16, 2005

Three-piece non-suck punk band from Chicago (where they seem to do it right a lot of the time) on a label I seem to recall has done some other good stuff.

Mob Stereo – Too Young to Go Steady – Review

March 16, 2005

Noisy mid-tempo NYC trash pop with dollar store production and tunes you can get and forget, three or four for a buck.

Mixel Pixel – Contact Kid – Review

March 16, 2005

A few nice melodies here, but they would’ve been nice without the bleeping. A keyboard in an instrument, not a crutch.

Magnolia Thunderpussy – Starin’ Down the Sun – Review

March 16, 2005

Exploded onto the L.A. punk scene in ’84, then imploded in ’86. Flea, Thruston Moore, and some others line up to say nice things. Guess ya had to be there.

Kylesa – To Walk a Middle Course – Review

March 16, 2005

Part metallic fever dream cluterfuck, part tuneful pick-slide rocker yahoo, albeit on the dirty and howling side of the trackmarks.

Kanda – All the Good Meetings Are Taken – Review

March 16, 2005

Bio sez “a dose of pure sweet-ass electro pop goodness.” If this sounds appealing, please email me your address so I can come over and bitch-slap your dumb ass.

Killwhitneydead – So Pretty So Plastic – Review

March 16, 2005

Littering movies samples amidst decent grr and chug, while the samples are a cheap ploy, the music and solos and breakdown are actually quite good. Bullshit claims of notoriety aside, the band is actually pretty bad-ass.

John Doe – Forever Hasn’t Happened Yet – Review

March 16, 2005

Ex-X member John Doe needs no introduction. This slab of blues and roots music needs no padding. Even the bad songs are decent.

Index For Potential Suicide – Sex Violence Whatever – Review

March 16, 2005

Retrospective of a prolific screamcore band formed in 1998, broke up in 2002. 39 songs, compiled from 7″s, split 7″s, and comps, plus a few unreleased tracks.

Hammerfall – Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken – Review

March 16, 2005

Swedish power metal, but a glance at the cover shoulda made that clear. Anyone into power metal or falsetto-layered heavy metal knows who these guys are.