Lollipop Magazine

Verbena – Souls for Sale – Review

December 1, 1997

Birmingham, Alabama’s retro/modern garage-rock band conjures lush lo-fi grooves, invokes Stones-like melodies, and fills in the cracks with ambient putty.

The Nixons – Review

December 1, 1997

The Nixons simply continue blending deep guitar grooves with drums that pop in your mouth and echo in your throat and ears.

Symposium – Review

December 1, 1997

British popcore? It’s the sound of Brit-punk becoming more like American hardcore and punk, yet keeping the pop vocals and accents.

Moist – Creature – Review

November 1, 1997

Creature has some attempts at heaviness, but mostly the band teeters in the middle of that blurry area between a rock song and a ballad, very much like Live.

Vaporhead – Review

October 1, 1997

The band has been playing their snotty, sometimes witty, whining, traditional three-chord stylings around New York City for almost two years.

Swell – with Treble Charger at Bill’s Bar – Review

June 1, 1997

Regular-looking guys playing drums, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, and sometimes keyboards. A little uneasy on stage, but at ease with the music.

That Dog – Retreat From the Sun – Review

June 1, 1997

Retreat From the Sun is full of happy and sad pop songs about waiting for phone calls, crying, kissing, pinching cheeks, and carving initials in trees.

Matthew Sweet – Blue Sky On Mars – Review

June 1, 1997

If there’s one thing I’ve always liked about Matthew Sweet, it’s his style – honest, energetic, real.

Veruca Salt – Eight Arms to Hold You – Review

May 1, 1997

The Verucas did some spring cleaning, finally locating the album-polish for Eight Arms to Hold You in their garage, and the result is a more cohesive album.

Jimmy Eat World – Static Prevails – Review

May 1, 1997

Four guys from Mesa, Arizona on their way to the MTV buzz bin in a (sometimes) hard rock band with a cool name playing distorted, clingy, guitar-intense music.