Brian Varney – Page 11 – Lollipop Magazine

Reverend Glasseye – Happy End and Begin – Review

February 14, 2005

The drunkenly pitched waltz tempos, the seeming interest in calliope music, and the heavy reliance on percussion makes me think of Tom Waits.

Red Giant – Devil Child Blues – Review

February 14, 2005

The members spent the time at the gym, listening to classic rock records. Devil Child Blues is a ferociously muscular, blues-based hard rock sledgehammer.

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.

Ambulance Ltd. – LP – Review

February 7, 2005

The four songs taken from the EP are the album’s lynchpins, the braces without which the album would crash to the ground in pieces.

The Glasspack – BridgeBurner – Review

January 31, 2005

This shit is knee-deep in bell bottoms, psychedelic drugs, and distortion pedals, which is probably why they’ve been embraced by the stoner rock folks.

Rwake – If You Walk Before You Crawl You Crawl Before You Die – Review

January 24, 2005

Eight doses of painfully slow hatecore, with some metal guitar flourishes thrown in. Rooted in blues music and, thus, truly righteous.

Motörhead – Inferno – Review

January 24, 2005

Don’t expect too many surprises, except maybe that they’re still so good. The acoustic closer is a side of the band that hasn’t reared its head too often.

Sunn O))) – White2 – Review

January 24, 2005

An experimental/ambient duo whose twin gods are the band Earth and Sunn amps. The fifth full-length amid the millions of limited-edition releases.

Stinking Lizaveta – Caught Between Worlds – Review

January 24, 2005

My kind of jam band. In possession of a nimble, subliminal band groove, the type made possible only by playing together for large spaces of time.

Gonga – Review

January 10, 2005

Four long-haired lager louts stumble out of a cider farm in the English countryside where they’ve been locked up with Nirvana and Black Sabbath albums.