Lollipop Magazine

The Guts – Sometimes You Just Can’t Win – Review

July 29, 2007

Clear, ’50s sock-hop I-killed-my-baby influences. One dude was in The Queers and Nobodys, which makes sense. Every song sounds different. Even better.

Tori Amos – American Doll Posse – Review

July 27, 2007

Tori at her most flexible and multi-faceted. The sheer length of the album could be a turn off to people who don’t have the time or perseverance to harvest it.

The Rosebuds – Night of the Furies – Review

July 27, 2007

The rich hooks and ringing guitars are still here, but now so are dance beats that bring out a whole new color, and recall OMD, The Cure, and Morrissey.

Samael – Solar Soul – Review

July 27, 2007

Beginning life as a poisonous black metal cabal, moving through luminous, magical industrial metal, through too much techno, and now, back to a heavy medium.

Patton Oswalt – Werewolves and Lollipops – Review

July 27, 2007

Reference points I might use: He compares Bush and Cheney to the Dukes of Hazzard in their ability to escape impossible predicaments with improbable ease.

Paradise Lost – In Requiem – Review

July 27, 2007

Sung and recorded better than a Sentenced album, but every time the verse starts, you’re bored. Stodgy, oppressive songs which, in the end, aren’t that heavy.

The Bigs – Review

July 27, 2007

Accessible, fast-paced, arcade-style hitting, pitching, and fielding. Brawls. An entertaining create-a-rookie mode, and an addictive homerun/destruction derby.

Fu Manchu – We Must Obey – Interview

July 27, 2007

An interview with singer/guitarist Scott Hill

Dark Tranquillity – Fiction – Review

July 27, 2007

The best of their past, combined with new, forward-looking tricks to become something flawless. Fresh, nostalgic, beefy, futuristic, classic, and catchy.

Dali’s Llama – Chorata – Review

July 27, 2007

Chugging, tense rock with a non-denominational punk ethic curling under hardened boogie cum cock rock guitars/rhythms from a gritty-eyed libertarian position.