Lollipop Magazine

Nixon Now – Altamont Nation Express – Review

March 16, 2007

Dirt stomp swagger, soloing wide-stance and cock-hard, pounding the skins and shots hard all night long, man. Singer Andi Schmidt has a bit of Wyndorf in him.

Light This City – Facing The Thousand – Review

March 16, 2007

That amazing voice is female. Laura Nichols, she’s got the goods. The fretboard-hopping fills and singing leads are classy. The drummer is a freakin’ beast.

Wolf – The Black Flame – Review

March 12, 2007

I have a soft-spot for some of this. Not an ironic, winking love, I mean I like and respect it, goofy or not. But Wolf is more Hammerfall than Sonata Arctica.

Bloc Party – A Weekend in the City – Review

March 12, 2007

More mainstream than my usual tastes, and not as jaw-dropping as Idlewild, and too hip and trendy for me, so the mainstream can keep them. Second full-length, produced by Jacknife Lee (U2, Snow Patrol).

Sasquatch – II – Review

March 12, 2007

Kind of a no-brainer. Kick-ass, tuneful and soulful rock by shaggy guys who can solo and swagger, and the singer can belt it out. Shared stages with Fireball Ministry, Nebula, Unida, and surely every hard rock and stoner rock band in the country.

Priestbird – In Your Time – Review

March 12, 2007

Song one nabbed me. Part metal, psychedelic, hippie like Floyd, and twisted and creepy like that too. The rest is like they left the tape running and went home.

Jeff Caudill and Drive Til Morning – I Was the Lead Singer – Review

March 12, 2007

“Two ex-punks turned Americana songsmiths cover each other’s material and collaborate on a new gem about more than a decade’s worth of indie martyrdom.”

Street Dogs – Fading American Dream – Review

March 12, 2007

Through his brief time in Dropkick Murphys to the second Street Dogs LP, you can’t help but love Mike McColgan and believe every word he says.

Serpenteens – Dead Men Walking – Review

March 12, 2007

It’s more Grease than Monster Pop, cuz I don’t hear the roller rink organ, and no reverbed surf guitar either. So it’s more horror punk, I guess.

Cemetery of Scream – The Event Horizon – Review

March 12, 2007

From Poland with thin production, piano interludes, whooshing keyboards, and dopey Goth mixed with dopey power metal vocals, and layered clean vocals.