Lollipop Magazine

New Mexican Disaster Squad – Review

February 9, 2004

It’s a relief to hear a band that’s obviously true to their roots of ’80s-style hardcore try to interject their own twist to that style, but it just doesn’t quite work for me.

Destruction Made Simple – Terror Stricken Youth – Review

December 10, 2003

A lot of repetition, bright bass tones, and vocal lines that follow the guitar like fuckin’ “Iron Man.” In other words, typical second stage Warped Tour fair.

Intro5pect – Review

July 23, 2003

Political punk rock with samples, breakbeats, frantic paces, and both live and synthesized guitars. Lots of whoa-whoa’s, but also plenty of Chemical Brothers.

Anti-Flag – Mobilize – Review

January 3, 2003

The eight new songs runing down the usual litany of complaints: The military is too violent, the government is too repressive, some people are too homophobic.

Justin Sane – Life, Love, And The Pursuit of Justice – Review

November 15, 2002

Anti-Flag singer Justin Sane has listened to his fair share of Billy Bragg and decided to try his hand at folk, just a semi-distorted guitar and his voice.

The Code – Alert Aware Involved – Review

October 28, 2002

Venomous ska-punk infused with metal and a little low-cal SoCal. That’s harmony minus sugar. Fierce shit that lazy folk will compare to Op Ivy and Rancid.

PipeDown – Enemies of Progress – Review

July 5, 2002

Good music can justify a lot of nonsense. Pipedown, on the other hand, sound like an uncomfortable cross between lightweight “punk” and lightweight “hardcore.”

Anti-Flag – A New Kind of Army – Review

September 1, 1999

Anti-Flag are energetic punks with their hearts in the right place, and they put on a great live show, as long as you ignore the stage banter between songs.