March 2005 – Page 8 – Lollipop Magazine

With Honor – The Distance – Split – Review

March 16, 2005

With Honor and The Distance are both completely passable hardcore, with previous releases on Bridge Nine and Stillborn, who steadily release passable hardcore.

Suplecs – Powtin’ On the Outside Pawty on the Inside – Review

March 12, 2005

Hard rock from New Orleans, produced by Pepper from COC, who knows about such things. Respected band, but this sounds like a demo from a hard rock/metal band.

Angel City Outcasts – Let It Ride – Review

March 8, 2005

Toy Dolls meets Dropkicks. Think Vandals, or Rev Horton Heat in a punk mood, tearing up the leads and fills, matched by gruff street vocals and group shouts.

Eighteen Visions – Obsession – Review

March 7, 2005

Once championed in the hardcore/noisecore music scene as an innovative band with intense shows, it seems success, fame, and melody has gotten the best of them.

Young Thugs: Nostalgia – Review

March 7, 2005

One of Takashi Miike’s best works. Set in the 1960s, it tells the story of Riichi, a poor kid with a jerkoff for a dad and a future that seems doomed.

Young Thugs: Innocent Blood – Review

March 7, 2005

A perceptive and even-handed study of how one boy’s troubled youth makes his inevitable maturation more complicated. Riichi returns from Young Thugs: Nostalgia.

Late Night with Conan O’Brien: The Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog – Review

March 7, 2005

This best-of collects nearly all of Triumph’s best moments, a good amount of outtakes, and even the “I Keed” rap video from his comedy album.

The Simpsons Christmas 2 – Review

March 7, 2005

Compiles four vaguely holiday-related episodes picked from the four most recent seasons: Two from season 12, one from season 14, and one from season 15.

The Simpsons: The Complete Fourth Season – Review

March 7, 2005

The show survived it’s adolescence and grew into its own during a brilliant fourth season. Homer takes his rightful place as the show’s central protagonist.

The Screamers – Live in San Francisco 1978 – Review

March 7, 2005

The Screamers is intoned in hallowed terms by the hardest of hardcore underground punk fans, but the band remains a mystery since they never released a record.