Craig Regala – Page 34 – Lollipop Magazine

River City Rebels – Playing to Live, Living to Play – Review

March 22, 2002

Ye olde punk’n’roll, as much pub rock ’76 as Clash ’76. I’d like to say “honest, unpretentious working class rock and roll,” but really .what does that mean?

Morsel – Para Siempre – Review

March 22, 2002

A tasty melange of apres Sonic Youth, post-rock, Midwestern art drill which has absorbed the potential for shifting nervous rikky-ticky rhythm.

Racebannon – In the Grips of the Light – Review

March 22, 2002

Yowling balls-on-fire spasmatic hard rock vs. punk noise gibbering. “Punk” like the early Butthole Surfers were punk, shambling, blown apart and glued together.

Scene Killer – Review

March 15, 2002

Solarized, Core, Monster Magnet, Drag Pack, Burnout King, The Lemmings, and Atomic Bitchwax: An East Coast corollary to the Desert Sessions discs.

The Jive Turkeys – Review

March 15, 2002

The Jive Turkeys jump into Big Joe Turner’s shorts and take a turn toward the horn-driven side of the street.

Electric Frankenstein – The Buzz of 100 Volts! – Review

March 15, 2002

It’s got hefty, ballbuster, mid-tempo tunes pulling good stuff from rock history. Meaning: There are cool stripper tunes here! Honest!

Tomahawk – Review

March 8, 2002

A beautifully-sculpted hard rock record rooted in the expansive non-arena ’70s/early-’80s rock, encompassing hard “new wave” era gunch.

Therapy? – Shameless – Review

March 1, 2002

These guys started as an analogy to middle-American noise rock a decade ago and have since moved to the center of the hard rock road.

Roadsaw – Rawk N’ Roll – Review

March 1, 2002

It rocks out mid-tempo’s enough to get a groove going and maintains a “rockist” enough profile to play with Fu Manchu or Monster Magnet.

Desert Sessions – 7 + 8 – Review

March 1, 2002

Half of this’ll fit your slot as well as any pickle named QOTSA, Fatso Jetson, Screaming Trees, or Masters of Reality will.