Craig Regala – Page 25 – Lollipop Magazine

Officer May – Smoking In A Minor – Review

October 1, 2003

Tense-ion/release hard art-gunch punk trio moving at midtempo and chiming and biting like those Wire, LaPeste, Honor Role, and Drive Like Jehu discs.

Generous Maria – Command of the New Rock – Review

October 1, 2003

I love this disc. Perfectly laid out, rolling grooves that bespeak Kyuss’ DNA, topped off with a Northern European melodic sense.

Friends of Dean Martinez – On The Shore – Review

October 1, 2003

This is the kinda laid back stuff I wanna hear when those worms in the bottom of the tequila bottle start to do their work.

Shesus – Shesus Loves Me… Shesus Loves Me Not – Review

September 24, 2003

Shesus is a mostly-chick band (guy drummer) from Ohio and it has members of GvB, Lazy, Braniac, O-Matic, The Method, and Robthebank. But so what?

Mclusky – Mclusky Do Dallas – Review

September 24, 2003

Drilling, kicking, biting four-piece working up a fine 35 minutes of art punk dosed up with proper ass-end, angular playing, with a fried, wild-eyed mouthpiece.

The Flaming Sideburns – Sky Pilots – Review

September 24, 2003

Rock and roll that’ll remind you of your grandad’s scratchy copy of The Stones’ Between the Buttons and The Creation’s early Mod power pop (Who-style) singles.

Grafton – Blind Horse Campaign – Review

September 24, 2003

Buckshot rock jerked through Nirvana’s rotting corpse. MEN, men who fix their own cars, go to work on four hours sleep, and play gigs for beer money.

Charger – Confessions of a Man – Review

September 24, 2003

Everything good about metal riffing, straight up “lean into it” drumming, angry howl/screamo/growls, (battery) acid-laced guitar, and doom-stomp.

Alta May – Dark Days – Review

September 24, 2003

Three-piece no-bullshit guitar heave with clean varied vocals ‘n’ an aggressive mid-tempo attack that avoids marketing tags like “punk” or “metal.”

Caustic Resin – Keep On Truckin – Review

September 11, 2003

Caustic Resin are not folkies, nor are they Utopians – these are the people the film River’s Edge was made about.