Lollipop Magazine

Brutality – In Mourning – Review

May 1, 1997

Brutality release a straight-for-the-throat U.S. death metal album with just enough melodic guitar soloing to save it from being completely flat.

Punk Dwellings – Review

May 1, 1997

12 “new” New York punk bands doing one “original” and one cover each. Proves again punk bands oughta stick to what they know best, ruining their “own” songs.

Lummox – Natural Born Swillers – Review

May 1, 1997

Backwoods, redneck rock here to fuck shit up. Speedkills scum punk and roadhouse/outhouse shit-talkin’ jams. “New Country” should be bellowed from bar stools.

Freeway – Review

May 1, 1997

Reese begins hitchhiking to Grandma’s house, taking a ride from concerned motorist Kiefer. He turns out to be the Freeway Killer all over the news.

Dayglo Abortions – Corporate Whores – Review

May 1, 1997

Rude, lewd, and loud, the DayGlo Abortions follow up 1995’s Little Man in the Canoe with 15 tracks of tongue-in-cheek controversy.

Los Ass-Draggers – Abbey Roadkill – Review

February 1, 1997

21 songs crammed into 22 minutes of eye-bulgin’, sweat-stinkin’, raw-throat-hollerin’, jacked-to-the-limit, speed-thrills good times.

Daddy Black Boots – Sticker – Review

February 1, 1997

DBB takes the groove of Stickmen, the vocal sarcasm (sans screams) of Sam Black Church, and adds in the choppy start/stops of Stompbox.

Speedball – Drive Like Hell – Review

February 1, 1997

Grimy, gritty, and pumped up to let it rip on the drag strip, Speedball play a brand of rock not often heard these days.

Meliah Rage – Death Valley Dream – Review

February 1, 1997

Ever get nostalgic about mid-’80s thrash like early Testament and Nuclear Assault? Gosh, I sure do.

The Spandex Experiment – Punk Bands Reviving 80’s Metal Sweetness – Review

December 1, 1996

With very few exceptions, the bands here don’t even perform their cover with competence, and most are not even close. Most just play the song a bit faster.