Lollipop Magazine

Silvertide – Show and Tell – Review

December 20, 2004

Antecedents are the first Black Crowes album and glossed-up cock rockers like Buckcherry and Velvet Revolver. Scuzzy party rock sheathed in a too-slick package.

John Frusciante – The Will to Death – Review

December 20, 2004

The kind of songs you’d sing to yourself when everything around you is falling apart. The kind of album you and a lifelong friend dream of making together.

Joe Buck – Joe Buck Yourself Motherfucker – Review

December 20, 2004

These grungy, psychobilly tunes are really tight, but they beg to be performed and recorded with a full band in order to realize their full potential.

In Flames – Soundtrack To Your Escape – Review

December 20, 2004

In Flames have carved themselves an endearing, enigmatic, amusing place within a scene now dominated to the left and right by American metalcore bands.

Gold Cash Gold – Paradise Pawned Vol. 1 – Review

December 15, 2004

Rock and roll writ large via ’70s scarf wearers Steve Tyler, the Dolls, as those fellas came to grips with the Stones, Faces, Free, early Rod Stewart.

Joey Cape – Tony Sly – Acoustic – Review

December 15, 2004

Joe Cape (of Lagwagon) and Tony Sly (of No Use For A Name) pull through despite the Dashboard stigma, offering up five catalog numbers and a newbie each.

Björk – Medúlla – Review

December 13, 2004

An album made entirely of human voices, but obviously modern wizardry was involved in piecing everything together. It ain’t a capella au natural.

A Perfect Murder – Unbroken – Review

December 13, 2004

A Perfect Murder’s debut can best be described as “typical” and/or “generic,” with hard-driving strides of metallic goodness peppered throughout the album.

Far – Water & Solutions – Review

December 13, 2004

Water & Solutions embodied a significant era of my life. Watching the reissue’s bonus DVD, I am reminded of how massive their outpouring was onstage.

Heaven Shall Burn – Antigone – Review

December 13, 2004

I championed this band when they unleashed 2002’s Whatever It May Take on Lifeforce, but Antigone just seems to be on autopilot.