Lollipop Magazine

The Brought Low – Third Record – Review

March 1, 2010

Like a big goddamn steak you loved last time, The Brought Low reappear as a big goddamn steak you’ll love again.

Lita Ford – Wicked Wonderland – Review

February 1, 2010

Lita has forgotten how to write good songs and good riffs.

Bayonetta – Review

February 1, 2010

As you control the titular witch, you’ll punish angels by slamming their heads into guillotines, or booting them into an iron maiden.

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).

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.

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.

Krakow – Monolith – Review

January 1, 2010

A good band treading water in a pool of good ideas, not sticking with any one idea/style long enough or having the experience to focus on it and make it happen.

H.E. Miller – Apocalyptic Dreams – Review

January 1, 2010

This H.E. Miller guy has an interesting, classic rock voice (like T. Rex or thicker Hellacopters, very everyman-sounding), and plays a good noisy rock guitar.

Death By Steamship – Fall of the Viaduct – Review

January 1, 2010

Yelpy and screamy vocals, staccato bursts someone called “messy exuberance,” and that’s close enough to steal, hit save, and move on.

I Love Rich – Season of the Rich – Review

November 1, 2009

This is the kinda stuff that’s either stupid and fun, or really, really, really bad. I Love Rich are from Chicago, love Kiss, and can ape the style well.