Lollipop Magazine

We Cheer – Review

December 1, 2008

The list of things that the Wii remote hasn’t been used to emulate grows ever smaller. Add cheerleading pom-poms to the list.

Pure – Review

December 1, 2008

With sterling presentation and an adrenalized experience with every session, Pure easily stands with Burnout Paradise as the best racing game of the year.

Synchro Nine Factor – Redeploy – Review

December 1, 2008

Not anthemic enough to be Rammstein, not sick enough to be Skinny Puppy, not throbbing enough to be one of the bands I can never specifically remember.

007 – Quantum of Solace – Review

December 1, 2008

It still has a little of that “good enough” movie tie-in mentality. Makes little effort to incorporate the trademark Bond style into the maps or presentation.

Burden Brothers – Mercy – Review

December 1, 2008

Todd Lewis sang for the Toadies. Taz is the former skin-beater for the good Revered Horton Heat. Mercy is a bit more subdued than I’m used to.

Subhumans – Death Was Too Kind – Review

December 1, 2008

This CD is ten tracks of early hump recorded between ’78 and ’82. “Slave To My Dick” was on the fan-fucking-tastic Let Them Eat Jellybeans comp.

Plastic Crimewave Sound – Review

December 1, 2008

I still place these guys as gobbling Pere Ubu’s pre-LP stuff, as well as other crude-aggo-outsider shit from the fair city of Cleveland when Carter was President.

The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists – Review

December 1, 2008

McIver making that paradigm shift, retiring the old gods for young pups in bands such as Bullet For My Valentine, Dragonforce, and Avenged Sevenfold.

Mors Principium Est – Liberation=Termination – Review

December 1, 2008

Part thrash classic, part Swedish melodic death metal glory, this six-piece blends melodic, soaring guitar, virtuositic keyboards, and death roars and bellows.

Grady – Y. U. So Shady? – Review

December 1, 2008

Stomping electric blues growl that smashes the rough-cut stuff Fat Possum has championed into the beer joint where Motörhead covered ZZ Top.