Brian Varney – Page 6 – Lollipop Magazine

The Ribeye Brothers – Bar Ballads and Cautionary Tales – Review

April 14, 2006

Firmly rooted in the Back from the Grave/Nuggets tradition of bands in matching suits playing furiously catchy three-minute slabs. Two ex-Monster Magnet alum.

New York Dolls – All Dolled Up – Review

March 17, 2006

This group is exponentially larger than it was at the time. There are a good number of rock fans out who’d like to see the band live and in its prime.

The Hellacopters – Rock & Roll Is Dead – Review

March 3, 2006

The band journeys yet further into the annals of classic rock history, now virtually indistinguishable from progenitors such as KISS, Foghat, and the Stones.

Gideon Smith & The Dixie Damned – Dealin’ Decks – Review

March 3, 2006

Rock and roll that commands the hips, its greasy, slinky rhythms the sort that moistened panties and panicked parents some 50 years ago.

Deadboy and the Elephantmen – We Are Night Sky – Review

March 3, 2006

The fatalistic beauty seems more urgent. Dax’s vocals and guitar (both often distorted) and Tessie Brunet’s feral drumming and lovely harmony vocals are here.

Wrecking Crew – The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates – Review

February 3, 2006

A league formed by the city parks and recreation office in L.A. and each team is populated in large part by casualties of the L.A. music and film industries.

Lamont – Muscle, Guts and Luck – Review

January 27, 2006

Lamont coined the term (and titled their second album) “thunderboogie,” which describes their sound better than any number of words could ever hope to do.

Clutch – Robot Hive/Exodus – Review

December 9, 2005

Full-time addition of keyboard player who plays lots of tasty Hammond, adding a more Southern rock feeling. The lyrics aren’t quite as inspired this go-round.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – We Are the Radio – Review

December 2, 2005

The main voice on these five songs belongs to a female, an unidentified newcomer. The songs themselves are firmly within the BJTM continuum.

Honky – Balls Out Inn – Review

December 2, 2005

Building on the foundations of fellow Texans ZZ Top (a stranger band than you might realize) and hints of the Dicks and brothers-by-buggery, Butthole Surfers.