Lollipop Magazine

Sex & Drugs & Rock ‘n Roll – Banned in Boston – Rant

September 1, 1994

Sex & Drugs & Rock ‘n Roll are supposed to go hand-in-hand, but what about here in New England, home of the Puritans?

Mother Tongue – at Local 186 – Review

September 1, 1994

Speed/funk riffing and slap-pop bass is cartwheeling about to a nearly continuous drum roll. The vocals mutate from chillin’ rap to hardcore bellows.

Wargasm – Ugly – Review

June 1, 1994

Ugly contains all the thrash trio’s classics from their EPs as well as newer stuff. Their mid-’80s thrash and burn is refreshing without being nostalgic.

Chemlab – at Venus di Milo – Review

June 1, 1994

Chemlab proved technology, metallic punk, and insane dance grooves can mix live as swift and sure as a death contract.

The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black – at ManRay – Review

June 1, 1994

Large-breasted, topless, black-toothed women in body paint dancing to simplistic ’70s glam punk.

KMFDM – at Venus – Review

June 1, 1994

When ANGST smashes into you, it carries you on it’s front grill at dizzying speeds ’til it damn well feels like stopping to let you peel yourself off.

G. Love & Special Sauce – at The Linwood – Review

June 1, 1994

There’s a six-foot-two guru sitting in a chair knocking his bony knees together in rhythm, thumb-picking real Delta-style blues on an old Silvertone guitar.

Compulsion – Comforter – Review

June 1, 1994

Their music is adrenaline-soaked pop punk. Noisy, catchy, throaty, energetic and rather indistinguishable from scores of other fine bands.

Stompbox – Stress – Interview

June 1, 1994

An interview with drummer Zach Courtney and singer Erich Thaler

One Year Anniversary! – Essay

June 1, 1994

In spite of wrecking our truck (that’s 3), losing our apt, and burning out two pets, eight roommates, and two partners, we made it to our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!