Lollipop Magazine

Senses Fail – Senses Fail / Man Overboard split – Review

March 6, 2015

Senses Fail and Man Overboard team up for this four-song EP, featuring a new song from each band as well as each band covering one of the other’s choice cuts.

Man Overboard – Man Overboard / Senses Fail split – Review

March 6, 2005

Senses Fail and Man Overboard team up for this four-song EP, featuring a new song from each band as well as each band covering one of the other’s choice cuts.

Reducers SF – “No Control” – Review

September 1, 2000

More great “street punk” for the liberty spike crowd (if they can pan up the necessary silver).

Lower Class Brats- “Glam Bastard” – Review

September 1, 2000

“Weird Al” would be pleased as punch with this parody of Mott the Hoople’s “All the Way to Memphis.” If it were funny, that is.

John P. Strom / Sonny SixKiller – Super Heroes of Rock Team Up – Review

September 1, 2000

Super Hero #1 is a boring indie-rocker – don’t see what’s so super ’bout that. Superhero #2, Sonny SixKiller, is, unsurprisingly, also a boring indie rocker.

The Spitfires – “Slick Black Cat” – Review

September 1, 2000

This has been out for a while’n’sounds like pre-In Too Deep Again stuff, so it’s slightly rawer than that newer disc, which is a plus.

Fuck You Punx – Vol II – Review

September 1, 2000

Points for attitude, that and one live Zeke cut and one Jon Cougar Concentration Camp.

The Onyas – Three more hits from The Onyas – Review

September 1, 2000

The musak’s fast’n’loose in the well-known (to me, anyway) Junk vein. Nice cover, too.

Sixer – “Truth Hurts” – Review

September 1, 2000

“Whoh heyyyy!” Sounds like Rancid who sound like Stiff Little Fingers. Yeah, it’s catchy. You might like it. Depends what yer usedta.

Frigg A-Go-Go – “SantaClaus Go Straight to the Ghetto” – Review

September 1, 2000

Sorta feel cheated here as the Friggers only bothered to put one song on this friggin’ 7″, a holiday song, no less.

New Wave Hookers – “Not Even A Virgin” – Review

September 1, 2000

My friend Brian Zipper ran this combo into the ground with revolvin’ door lead guitarists and singers before wisely callin’ it quits recently.

The Candy Snatchers – “Survival of the Fittest” – Review

September 1, 2000

Primo Candy Snatcher raunch’n’roll wallow, rougher than ground-up rusty nails in yer coke.

Loose Lips – “Two Time Loser” – Review

September 1, 2000

Ain’t the best I’ve heard from these Bay Area junk rock lifers, but s’alright, cuz they’re New York Dolls fans with the decency to not try and dress like ’em.

Electric Frankenstein – “Used To Know / “Imperial Void” – Review

June 1, 1999

Victory’s four sides showcase “guest” vocals by punk-before-some-of-you-whippersnappers-were-even-born Rik L.

The Foxations – Review

June 1, 1999

The singer sounds like Kathleen Hanna on helium, so much, in fact, that I thought that maybe I had the record on the wrong speed.

Electric Frankenstein – “Blackout” / “Naked Heat” – Review

June 1, 1999

Patented EF: tight, over-amped, powerful, damn-near majestic even. Frankenstein, after all, was no weak-ass monster.

Los Ass-Draggers – Kings of Cheezy – Review

June 1, 1999

Short and sweaty by these Spanish psychopaths who’ve got about quarto momento to kill you with their New Bomb Turks on meth antithesis of ass draggin’.

The Dipshits – Holiday Drunk Fest – Review

June 1, 1999

The Slobs with Larry from the Candy Snatchers on vox. Goes to show what can happen to a inept buncha drunks when one different drunk is added to the mix.

Electric Frankenstein – “Clockwise” – Review

June 1, 1999

This Junk offering’s been floating around a while and features former EF frontman Scott Wilkins on the dayjob complaint A-side and Crime cover flip.

The Candy Snatchers – “Shut Your Mouth” – Review

June 1, 1999

Brilliant, a too-hot’n’skanky blast of unrepentant punk rock. For those unfamiliar with these deranged Virginians, I dunno what to tell ya.

The Bulemics – Can’t Keep It Down – Review

June 1, 1999

Rock’n’Roll and bad taste go together like puking and blacking out, and let’s just say Austin, TX’s Bulemics got both in spades.

The Meteors – “Slow Down You Grave Robbing Bastard” – Review

June 1, 1999

A side has perhaps the dumbest title of any song, ever, but as psychobilly goes, whence pounded out by Englishmen, it’s twangy, sunbaked’n’pretty decent.

Beachwood Sparks – “Desert Skies” / “Make It Together” – Review

June 1, 1999

Lushly textured jangle pop that sounds real wimpy albeit in a psychedelic manner, but girls probably like it and that’s why the guys do it.

Los Infernos – “The Outlaw” / “Beer Run” – Review

June 1, 1999

It’s almost a throwback to Restless Records’ ’80s heyday as the headquarters for hopelessly glossy metallic thrashabilly.

Stuntmen – “Unpaid Vacation” – Review

June 1, 1999

Stuntmen hail from Philly and they hone in the prevalent tendency to play real, real fast and lose their collective breath by the end of the song.