Lollipop Magazine

Federation X – Rally Day – Review

June 1, 2005

Someone else already said “filthy guitar chords, slithering guitar lines, and shrieks of feedback” and I can’t top that. On Estrus, PacNW, what do you expect?

Electric Frankenstein – Super Kool – Review

May 30, 2005

Covers of a heavy Sex Pistols tune (“Satellite”), and Black Sabbath’s rock ‘n’ roll side “Never Say Die.” Hard rock kickass derived from punkoid gettin’ it on.

Sons Of Otis – X – Review

May 30, 2005

Kinda like AC/DC albums: If you’ve heard one, you’ve heard ’em all. Content to create the sickest, most punishing heavy psychedelic rock ever created.

Slunt – EP – Review

May 30, 2005

Five tracks of party hard neo-sleaze rock based in early Kiss, Joan Jet, Quarterflash, Backyard Babies, and The Donnas.

DMBQ – The Essential Sounds From the Far East – Review

May 30, 2005

Tense, taunt, expansive, and explosive, making for a safe home for any “talent” they may have. This four-piece have it.

Goon Moon – I Got A Brand New Egg Layin Machine – Review

May 26, 2005

Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson, Zach Hill of Hella, and Chris Goss of Masters of Reality. You’d expect more than a indie rock Iron Butterfly droppings.

Electric Frankenstein – Burn Bright, Burn Fast – Review

May 26, 2005

No frills rock’n’roll, the closest thing you’ll get to AC/DC. 13 full-lengths, 13 EPs, and 13 split singles in a 13 year history. Or close enough.

Dirty Americans – Strange Generation – Review

May 26, 2005

There HAVE to be better bands in Detroit they coulda signed. It’s not too glammy, too stoned stupid, or too vintage: It’s not too anything. It’s just bland.

Howling Diablos – Car Wash – Review

May 26, 2005

From Detroit, on Alive Records, produced by singer Tino Gross whose done two recent RL Burnside records. Down’n’dirty blues rock’n’roll that sounds great.

Corrosion Of Conformity – In The Arms Of God – Review

May 26, 2005

COC have reinvented themselves a few times, and over 75% of the time, I catch on eventually to what they’re going for, and dig it. This might be the 25%.