April, 2007 | Lollipop Magazine

Uncyclopedia – Review

April 27, 2007

“You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to this.”

Heavy Metal Parking Lot – 20th Anniversary Edition – Review

April 27, 2007

Put together for local cable, it’s become the stuff of legend, mullets afire, beers in hand. Everybody was skinny, and the girls had mullets too.

Big Audio Dynamite – Live E=MC2 – Review

April 27, 2007

Madchester flourishes and samples, literal and musical quotes. The open-hearted joy and hope override the pensive realism and downcast tone.

The Charms – Easy Trouble – Review

April 27, 2007

The Charms hit signifiers (organ, chintzy brat vocals) more than the thing itself. The “rock me shock me” guitars flop on the bass/drums rather than ride’m.

Lifetime – Interview

April 27, 2007

An interview with guitarist Dan Yemin

Blue Oyster Cult – Spectres – Review

April 27, 2007

An amazing piece of genre-defying high concept pop metal, an album of a type only five or so bands could ever dare issue, and all of them from the ’70s.

Blonde Redhead – 23 – Review

April 27, 2007

Reverbed-out piano chords, shimmering guitars, and haunting/floating vocals: It’s driving, heartbroken, mysterious, addictive, emotive, affecting, and exotic.

Dwarves – FEFU – Review

April 20, 2007

Young girls, little people, blood, sex ‘n’ violence have been explicitly expressed via song and performance as the Dwarves spill seed into their third decade.

The Broken West – I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On – Review

April 20, 2007

A band that recalls the jumpy, jangly days of Nick Lowe, Big Star, Elvis Costello, and modern counterparts Spoon, Brendan Benson, Earlimart, etc.

Ted Leo/Pharmacists – Living With the Living – Review

April 20, 2007

They’re capable of staggering work, showcasing a retardedly advanced sense of melody, yet they put out disappointments between great records. Like this one.