Lollipop Magazine

MC5 – ’66 Breakout! – Review

January 1, 2000

At one time, the legendary MC5 were just another somewhat wholesome pimply adolescent garage band playin’ junior high dances, BBQs, and bar mitzvahs.

Bomp! Records – An interview with Greg Shaw – Interview

January 1, 2000

An interview with Greg Shaw

You Gotta Have… Moxie – Volume 2 – Review

January 1, 2000

80-some-odd tracks from national and international acts that even flew under Lenny Kaye’s Nuggets radar but that a couple people thought worthy of preserving.

Pebbles – Vol. 12 The World – Review

January 1, 2000

Eighty tracks from national and international acts that even flew under Lenny Kaye’s Nuggets radar, but Greg Shaw thought worthy of preserving for posterity.

Beachwood Sparks – “Desert Skies” / “Make It Together” – Review

June 1, 1999

Lushly textured jangle pop that sounds real wimpy albeit in a psychedelic manner, but girls probably like it and that’s why the guys do it.

Dead Boys – All This And More – Review

January 1, 1999

Two discs of live Dead Boys is mebbe more than you’ll wanna listen to in one sitting. Maybe you could listen to one, then go out to a bar and get shitfaced.

The Essential Pebbles Collection – Review

March 1, 1998

The Essential Pebbles Collection – Volume One, a bargain-priced two-disc collection skimming the most exquisitely curdled cream of the circa-’66 crop.

Iggy and the Stooges – California Bleeding – Review

March 1, 1998

Newly-unearthed live takes from the declining days of Stoogedelia are lovingly packaged, and Iggy’s ferocious, untamed stage presence bleeds through.

Dead Boys – Younger, Louder & Snottier – Review

September 1, 1997

A standard-setting self-destructive punk album, bringing out the raw, throat-shredding vocals of Stiv Bator and the fuck-overdubs guitarwork and skin-bashing.

The Roots of Power Pop – Review

February 1, 1997

Without these bands, it is unlikely we would have seen acts like Green Day, Presidents of the U.S.A, Weezer, Liz Phair, Matthew Sweet or even Nirvana.