Craig Regala – Page 10 – Lollipop Magazine

Black Sabbath – Doom Let Loose – Review

March 3, 2007

350 pages of LP by LP, song by song, riff by riff, word by word attention to the band that created heavy. All the players, singers, the midgets; all of it.

Amplified Heat – Review

February 16, 2007

If your train stops for ’70s ZZ Top, Hognose, The Brought Low, George Thorogood, or the Black Crowes with Jimmy Page thing, it can pull in here.

Hickoids – Corn Demon – Review

February 16, 2007

A rockin’ unit with roots in country/boogie/schmaltz and a punk-yahoo attack. Bands need tunes, and they got’m, bud.

Turn Me On Dead Man – Technicolor Mother – Review

February 9, 2007

They build’m good, hang a couple hooks in each without resorting to second rate power pop/pop punks shouting and pointing.

Morning 40 Federation – Ticonderoga – Review

February 9, 2007

Shake a tail feather to a party band squonking Creole funk and leering way-too-hung-over-to-lie sleazy ’60s R&B the White Stripes could dance to.

Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys – Review

December 1, 2006

The shadowy, creepy, misty, doom of Trent Reznor with a cracked mic’n’acoustic guitar strumming away on a crisp New England October night with Edgar Allen Poe.

Melvins – (A) Senile Animal – Review

November 10, 2006

Really heavy rock; not metal, even as they absorbed that dynamic/language/attack as tots/post-tots as Black Flag rung their bell and called’m home to dinner.

Priestess – Hello Master – Interview

October 27, 2006

An interview with singer/guitarist Mikey Heppner

Los Natas – El Hombre Montaña – Review

October 20, 2006

High energy acid rock with a liquid flow that relaxes and spreads just enough before the guitarist starts biting off bar chords.

Greenhaven – The Last Powerful Second – Review

October 13, 2006

A trimmed-down hard rock that’s got a few grunge-era goodies tucked away, as well as a Clutch record or two, and maybe an opening gig for Fu Manchu.