May, 2008 | Lollipop Magazine

The Way-High Men – Let’s Get Arrested! – Review

May 1, 2008

The cover is gonna make you think Supersuckers. Still a bit tentative, so the level of attack isn’t quite what it should be, but the raw materials are present.

The Irish Brothers – Freedom Is a Lonely Thing – Review

May 1, 2008

Nice guitar sound and playing, the songs themselves are simple and likable, and I’m always a sucker for a raspy voice.

Sgt. Sunshine – Black Hole – Review

May 1, 2008

Maintaining the trippy vibes not via Iommi riff clonage, but via psychedelic rock that screams as much Captain Beefheart and Cream as it does, er, Kyuss.

Raw Radar War – Review

May 1, 2008

Jonah Jenkins sung for Only Living Witness, Milligram, and now with Raw Radar War, he’s straight-up going for the jugular. Sludged-up, crusty hardcore.

Paint It Black – New Lexicon – Review

May 1, 2008

Yemin’s “main band” since before (and now alongside) Lifetime got back together. A statement on the beauty of hardcore, and a plethora of outsider music.

Pagans – The Blue Album – Review

May 1, 2008

One step up from boot recording, a rock and roll attack based in the classic Who, Stones, Pretty Things, ’60s Anglo-attack shot through a snot-garage attack.

NOFX – They’ve Actually Gotten Worse Live! – Review

May 1, 2008

Exactly what you would imagine it to be: Almost as much in-between banter as music, irreverent humor, not to mention meticulously written and executed pop punk.

Grief of War – A Mounting Crisis… As Their Fury Got Released – Review

May 1, 2008

Tokyo’s Grief of War barely make the grade. They sound too complacent to rub elbows with thrash metal revival bands as goods as Evile and Municipal Waste.

Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground – Review

May 1, 2008

Proving Ground inexplicably drops the colorful environments of Project 8 and replaces them with uniformly gray, washed-out, gritty urban areas.

Naruto – Ultimate Ninja 3 – Review

May 1, 2008

Battles take place across huge, beautiful battlefields three stories high, with projectiles flying, and special attacks requiring just a few button presses.