Lollipop Magazine

Glue – Sunset Lodge – Review

June 7, 2005

Like scratchy old blues records, music box tinkle, a lonely trumpet soliloquy. White guy rapping usually turns me off like lima beans on a hot fudge sundae.

Gatsby’s American Dream – Volcano – Review

June 7, 2005

Trendy keyboard, a dash of metal chug, layered harmonies. Wait, here’s where they rock out, there’s the droning breakdown, and yes, they close with the ballad.

Eerie Von – Bad Dream No 13 – Review

June 7, 2005

Home recordings, from Tom Waits to Elvis/Doors worship, dark ballads to metallic guitar chugs over a drum machine. As weirdly cluelessly demented as it sounds.

Crimson Sweet – Eat The Night – Review

June 7, 2005

Punk rawk all raw and loud and destructive. Yeah, you just got knocked on yer ass by a girl, Fonzie. She’s shredding her vocal chords for you, so listen up.

Circa Survive – Juturna – Review

June 7, 2005

Everyone thinks that’s a girl singing. It’s a dude named Anthony Green, who was in Saosin. He teamed up with a childhood friend, fresh out of This Day Forward.

Brand New Disaster – Hold Fast The Summer – Review

June 7, 2005

Taking Back Sunday-style hardcore with emoting vocals. From Virginia. Not into this style, but the delicate diddling and pussy singing bother me less than most.

Big Bear – Review

June 7, 2005

Noisy, too destructive to be math rock, and fuck that shit anyway. Like Unwound with screamo vocals, annoying sounds, noisy bashings, and feedback.

Bantam – Suicide Tourist – Review

June 7, 2005

Gina from the Lunachicks returns. More gritty NYC rock than trashy dress-up, which kinda made Lunachicks like Gwar or Slipknot. First pass, it’s kinda lifeless.

Gogol Bordello – Gypsy Punks – Underdog World Strike – Review

June 7, 2005

Irish punk has blossomed because it’s “music of the people.” The other kinda punk is the outcast, the loner, the rebel. Gypsies are pretty anti-establishment.

Brand New Sin – Recipe For Disaster – Review

June 3, 2005

This reeks of Down crossed with your best battered memories of groovy COC served shots by Zakk; vocalist Phil Altier crooning like a redneck Anselmo.