Lollipop Magazine

Poisoned Heart – I Married Dee Dee Ramone – Review

March 1, 2010

This story is from the perspective of Dee Dee’s first wife Vera Ramone King. It tells of an enduring love that would’ve sent most people to the brink.

Metallica – The Club Dayz 1982-1984 – Review

March 1, 2010

Metallica would soon take over the world, but here, they were a bunch of dirty, long-hairs drinking, playing fast, and living out their lean years with vigor.

Black Diamond – The Unauthorized Biography of KISS – Review

March 1, 2010

Black Diamond gives an exhaustive, behind-the-scenes account of the band throughout their impressive, sometimes tumultuous, history.

Mystery Train – Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music – Review

September 1, 2009

Originally published in 1975, Mystery Train is seemingly the last Marcus volume that is neither awash in academic incomprehensibility nor about Bob Dylan.

The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists – Review

June 1, 2009

It makes up its own rules, and it’s a helluva lotta fun. “Call someone up who’s kinda cool and ask’m ‘what’re yer fave nine unpunk things to do in a punk way.'”

Judas Priest – Heavy Metal Painkillers – Review

June 1, 2009

If you care about Priest or the germination of metal, you wanna see this. Popoff is a deep crate digger in the hard rock and metal world, a lifer’s lifer.

Keep It True – Festival History Book 2003-2008 – Review

January 1, 2009

Cool idea, a whole pile of enthusiastic metalheads getting together to celebrate the hard power “traditional” metal legacy of Germany’s Keep It True Festival.

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.

Ye Olde Metal – 1973 to 1975 – Review

November 1, 2008

The second in Martin Popoff’s series of books detailing the early, odd, under-appreciated, or just all around forgotten gems of metal.

Reign In Blood – Review

November 1, 2008

D.X. Ferris did dozens of interviews and wrote a meticulous history of Slayer’s Reign In Blood, with sociological context bios and impact on the metal world.