January, 2010 | Lollipop Magazine

Killswitch Engage Part Ways With Singer Howard Jones – News

January 4, 2010

Band Statement On The Matter Is As Follows: To our family, friends and fans: We have decided to continue on without Howard Jones as the singer of Killswitch Engage.

Arriver – Simon Mann – Review

January 1, 2010

This Chicago band holler and roar, flipflopping between math metal skitter and roarcore pummel, with atonal this placed here and breakdown buggery placed there.

Luder – Sonoluminescence – Review

January 1, 2010

Features Sue Lott (ex-Slot), Phil Durr (Big Chief, Giant Brain, Five Horse Johnson), Scott “Small Stone” Hamilton, and Eric Miller (5Horse and Novadriver).

Katamari Forever – Review

January 1, 2010

You roll around a big, sticky ball. As it collects debris, it becomes bigger and bigger until a clock runs out and you’re scored based on the size of your heap.

Guitar Hero – 5 – Review

January 1, 2010

Like the Tony Hawk series, it never lost the satisfying core of its revolutionary gameplay, but was sequeled to the point of fatigue and gamer apathy.

Dali’s Llama – Raw is Real- Review

January 1, 2010

This rough-cut, non-glossy hard rock is the base material from whence lotsa crap has sprung the past 30 years or so.

Big D and the Kid’s Table – Fluent in Stroll – Review

January 1, 2010

A genre-jumpin’ band with horns and hop. It’s all for the good of the party music. Most is finger-snapping butt-wiggle so the girls can dance the night away.

This Moment In Black History – Public Square – Review

January 1, 2010

There’s vintage-sounding psychedelia as well as the kinda fuzzy garage grr that makes The White Stripes sound as polished and gutsy as Def Leppard.

Ten Year Vamp – Don’t Act Like You Know Me – Review

January 1, 2010

Albany-based, female-fronted power pop, with well-written tunes radio’ll dig, and an energy anyone with a pulse’ll like. Polished to a spit-shine.

Nathan Leigh – Glitch – Review

January 1, 2010

Four solo releases, plays in Boston’s A Thousand Ships and Brooklyn’s Super Mirage. While often dipping into alt.boy band pop, he can sing like Ben Folds.