Lollipop Magazine

BBQ – Tie Your Noose – Review

November 11, 2005

One man, one guitar, two drums, one clanky thing, and that’s fucking that.

The Konks – Review

June 15, 2005

Three guys. Two guitars, two drums. Singing drummer. And a harmonica. Don’t forget that, it matters. Like a bubblegum version of The Cheater Slicks (no insult).

Turpentine Brothers – We Don’t Care About Your Good Times – Review

June 13, 2005

The guitar-heavy snot Stones teen angle has gotten worked a bunch since the original Nuggets double LP sprung from the loins of Pan to help rescue us all.

Les Hell on Heels – Review

April 18, 2005

Take mid-quick tempoed garage rocker as a template, and get a two-guitar four-piece to sneer their way through slangy all-gal snot bombs.

Stiv Bators – Disconnected – Review

February 14, 2005

Reissue of Stiv Bators’ debut solo album from 1980. Disconnected is a power-pop album. That may seem strange if you only know Dead Boys’ Young Loud and Snotty.

Union 13 – Symptoms of Humanity – Review

June 21, 2004

Union 13 proudly holds up their East L.A. punk roots, performing the majority of songs in English, but their songs in Spanish are just as good.

Boyskout – School of Etiquette – Review

June 7, 2004

Blends a fairly basic New Wave sound with an eerie darkness, which yields an album that is more Goth/synth than Joy Division could ever hope to produce.

The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs – Maximum Overdrive – Review

March 15, 2004

The real reason to get this reissued classic is the buncha speedy rockers that woulda put’m on bills with DMZ, Smack, The Fluid, The Lazy Cowgirls, Electric Frankenstein, or The Hives.

The Lovetones – Be What You Want – Review

February 16, 2004

It’s as artfully crafted and lovingly tended as a highly-polished emerald ring, and you can feel assured that any money you spend acquiring it was well-spent.

Big Midnight – Everything For The First Time – Review

February 16, 2004

Hellacopters naysayers may say that band is too derivative to influence others, but said naysayers have obviously never heard Big Midnight.