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.

Mighty High – In Drug City – Review

February 1, 2009

The disc has a loose garage hard rock feel, not unlike some of the early NWOBHM units, before they got recording budgets and completely metalized.

Giant Brain – Throne of Thornes – Review

February 1, 2009

The airier Monster Magnet psych-pop, swirling through the ’90s Too Pure label stuff, and yep, Kraut rock, plus whatever electronica a Sabbath fan might dig.

Sixteen Horsepower – Live March 2001 – Review

January 1, 2009

American roots music severed and run through the Wisconsin Book of the Dead, Old Testament dread, and American Gothic.

The Yardbirds – The Story of The Yardbirds – Review

January 1, 2009

They amped-up blues, cut it with psychedelic pop and a teenage impatience that came to define garage rock. They were great.

Blood Ceremony – Review

January 1, 2009

Dreamy, dirt-gaze doom with female vocals, ethereal flute, and spooky organ. Blood Ceremony owe a dept to black & white horror movies from the pre-rock era.

Bionic – Black Blood – Review

January 1, 2009

Tense, wound-up, rocked-up gunk to draw in anyone with the a taste for the Who/Yardbirds ’60s Mod nerve through the MC5/Stooges/Simply Saucer/Devo ’70s.

Subhumans – Death Was Too Kind – Review

December 1, 2008

This CD is ten tracks of early hump recorded between ’78 and ’82. “Slave To My Dick” was on the fan-fucking-tastic Let Them Eat Jellybeans comp.

Plastic Crimewave Sound – Review

December 1, 2008

I still place these guys as gobbling Pere Ubu’s pre-LP stuff, as well as other crude-aggo-outsider shit from the fair city of Cleveland when Carter was President.

Grady – Y. U. So Shady? – Review

December 1, 2008

Stomping electric blues growl that smashes the rough-cut stuff Fat Possum has championed into the beer joint where Motörhead covered ZZ Top.

Clutch – Full Fathom Five – Review

November 1, 2008

Favors the bluesy roll flow of the past couple (great) Clutch CDs. Live’s the place to visit this stoner rock jam-blues juggernaut.

Woodbox Gang – Drunk As Dragons – Review

November 1, 2008

They roll into town like stripped-to-the-gears county shot thru with winsome death folk, moonshine, and a couple dogs.

The Evil Queens – Lovesong Werewolves – Review

November 1, 2008

Most did time in Our Flesh Party, who started out alt.funky.rock and whittled it into a ball of wire, backbone, and meat like Fugazi, Quicksand, and Barkmarket.

Los Difuntos – Born And Raised In East L.A. – Review

November 1, 2008

Rock and roll rooted in the Western feel and melancholy. Mexican guitar tradition tangling Spanish classicism through native cultures and death’s head imagery.

Marc Almond – Live At Lokerse Feesten 2000 – Review

October 1, 2008

Marc Almond hit the charts with one of the most enduring, wettest, sleazy hits of synth-pop, Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love,” a cover of Gloria Lewis’ 1964 hit.

Lydia Lunch – Video Hysterie: 1978-2006 – Review

October 1, 2008

A menacing cool urban ’50s heroin vibe jimmied through a less-polite take on the ’90s Tom Waits/Cop Shoot Cop wheezy industrial/song writerishness.