Craig Regala – Page 11 – Lollipop Magazine

Gravity Propulsion System – Get Destroy – Review

October 13, 2006

The compositional/functional/found-noise/skronking guitar hum and hollering/bewildered singing are intact. Everything’s sharper, tenser, and wound tighter.

Pere Ubu – Why I Hate Women – Review

October 6, 2006

Eating corn dogs with the Marx Brothers, listening to classic rock, and hoping to rip off some cool James Gang, Spirit, or Stooges riffs.

SSM – Review

October 6, 2006

Garage rock to compare to the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs herk’n’jerk, or The Epoxies zany new wave via weirdo punk. Fuzzed-out keyboard smog populates mid-tempo grooves.

Cardinale – 31:13 – Review

October 6, 2006

“Heavy” as in the emotional, if not bludgeoning sense. Maybe less drone and drift, linking it to a couple older era’s “progressive” rock works.

Freshkills – Creeps and Lovers – Review

August 4, 2006

Freshkills utilize the simplistic strangled groove Gang of Four, PiL, Au Pairs, and The Pop Group stapled together in ’79 out of fucked up blues rock/funk.

Generous Maria – Electricism – Review

August 4, 2006

Queens of the Stone Age vs. Fu Manchu strike me in as a good touch-point for Americans, with that gracious Mammoth Volume/DJCS “feel.”

Demented Are Go – Hillbilly Storm – Review

June 30, 2006

Raw cut and pointed in one direction, but in a full-on way that’s halfway to ’70s glam’s big beat, as well as the primal ’50s nervous hiccup.

Five Horse Johnson – The Mystery Spot – Review

June 9, 2006

The boys belly-flop into the deep mud-clogged river of America and belch out steel-shod blues shorn of beer rock, record collector ass-covering, and minutiae.

X – The Unheard Music – Review

April 28, 2006

Hands down my favorite rock bio/movie. Even if you’re not a fan, this’ll tell you a ton about the record industry, rock music, punk rock, and the spirit of DIY.

Samhain – Live 1984 Stardust Ballroom – Review

April 28, 2006

The songs are slower, more textual, and less cartoonish in their execution, but definitely traceable to the core interests of Glenn Danzig’s brutish brooding.