Lollipop Magazine

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.