Lollipop Magazine

J. Roddy Walston – Essential Tremors – Review

January 14, 2014

When you nick and splice as well as J. Roddy Walston & The Business do – thereby making it your own – well, than that’s an art form in itself.

Matt Pryor – Wrist Slitter – Review

January 8, 2014

The Get-Up Kids got less terrible with every release, as the cute college girls I assigned to review them for the magazine often noted.

Boardwalk – Review

January 2, 2014

Pleasant, predictable, and mesmerizing. Breathy, gauzy female vocals, and a hipster dude handling the deeply-reverbed guitars, and a drum machine set on snooze.

Blitzen Trapper – VII – Review

December 31, 2013

Seventh full-length. And the music, heard here on “Ever Loved Once,” is just as straightforward and unpretentious, with a confident alt.country swagger.

Rogue Wave – Nightingale Floors – Review

December 9, 2013

“College” is appropriately-named. Rogue Wave offer up a 101-level anthem for awkward, nervous late-teens.

The Stone Roses – Made of Stone – Review

December 7, 2013

A fantastic documentary of the Roses’ reformation in 2012 after 16 years off the map, by director Shane Meadows.

Saturday Looks Good to Me – One Kiss Ends It All – Review

December 3, 2013

Gloriously produced, easy-breezy summer indie pop, with most of the vocals volleyed by the women. Their voices match better than my socks.

The Sounds – Weekend – Review

December 1, 2013

The fifth album from this Swedish band. Weekend has energy and emotion to spare, and makes me wonder just what the hell people are listening to instead of this.

Goldfrapp – Tales of Us – Review

November 15, 2013

Not that Goldfrapp hasn’t been doing well since her collaborations with Orbital, but having your song in an Apple commercial is a new level.

Pixies – EP-1 – Review

October 11, 2013

It’s a tough thing for a band that hasn’t put out new material in more than 20 years (aside from two singles) to come back like gangbusters.