Craig Regala | Lollipop Magazine

The Brought Low – Third Record – Review

March 1, 2010

Like a big goddamn steak you loved last time, The Brought Low reappear as a big goddamn steak you’ll love again.

Luder – Sonoluminescence – Review

January 1, 2010

Features Sue Lott (ex-Slot), Phil Durr (Big Chief, Giant Brain, Five Horse Johnson), Scott “Small Stone” Hamilton, and Eric Miller (5Horse and Novadriver).

Dali’s Llama – Raw is Real- Review

January 1, 2010

This rough-cut, non-glossy hard rock is the base material from whence lotsa crap has sprung the past 30 years or so.

Iggy Pop – Lust For Life – Review

September 1, 2009

This documentary carries a buncha footage from 20 years ago with Ig, some choice Stoogeliness, and interview footage with guitar player Ron Ashton. It’s great.

Throttlerod – Pig Charmer – Review

July 1, 2009

Beholden to the rubbery overdrive David Sardy pushed through, Barkmarket, and various ’90s production work with Quicksand, Orange 9 MM, and Cop Shoot Cop.

Goes Cube – Another Day Has Passed – Review

July 1, 2009

There’s a goodly amount of warm “big-foot” moves we find among stoner-rock units, if not the same vocal approach and different thematic concerns.

Kylesa – Static Tensions – Review

June 1, 2009

Ridiculously rhythmic throb full of great songs and boiled over energy surge. The innerlocked double drummers and meshed guitars work like a big pumping heart.

The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists – Review

June 1, 2009

It makes up its own rules, and it’s a helluva lotta fun. “Call someone up who’s kinda cool and ask’m ‘what’re yer fave nine unpunk things to do in a punk way.'”

Judas Priest – Heavy Metal Painkillers – Review

June 1, 2009

If you care about Priest or the germination of metal, you wanna see this. Popoff is a deep crate digger in the hard rock and metal world, a lifer’s lifer.

Zero Boys – History Of – Review

June 1, 2009

The Zero Boys were a got-damn fantastic punk band from the second generation nation, after the mid/late ’70s shit hit the (few) fans and the dis-ease spread.