Craig Regala – Page 39 – Lollipop Magazine

Internal Void – Unearthed – Review

April 1, 2001

Second disc from DC-area doomsters wielding heavy structures to natural vocals and a tinge of bump boogie.

Abdullah – Review

April 1, 2001

A corollary to some of the grits’n’grease doom bands from the DC area, although the recording is a bit tentative and it’s less “Southern” and more psychedelic.

Jeff Dahl – Pancake 31 – Review

April 1, 2001

Pancake 31 doesn’t have much goin’ on. A limp punk rock version of some 40-year-old guy down-at-the-plant yakin’ about his high school football days.

Melvins – The Crybaby – Review

September 1, 2000

This one’s the “duets” record. They thumbed through the date book and pulled the names of those whose jibs had the right cut.

Caustic Resin – The Afterbirth – Review

September 1, 2000

Steel-shod jangle, a roughly-handled gritty “folkish” thing, Caustic Resin’s groove is a slow continual swap between a tumble and a dusty trudge.

Boulder – Ravage and Savage – Review

September 1, 2000

Kinda like a sideways speed metal band heisting riffs from really grunty boogie rock and frying a few dual leads stolen from Thin Lizzy. Per Song.

A Planet for Texas – You Can Still Rock in America – Review

September 1, 2000

The bulk of said material is on the “zoop-zoop” pop/punk melodic vocal side, without any of the dry-cleaned bullshit radio rock production.

Puny Human – Revenge is Easy – Review

September 1, 2000

It’s rock writ large and gruntly, heavy-bottomed and loaded for bear with a rhythm between a hipshake and a headbang on the ass end.

Mondo Generator – Cocaine Rodeo – Review

September 1, 2000

An ass-kick that scoops up all power scoot available and churns it, balls it up, and lets it gel enough to hit the classic twisted forward propulsion groove.

Lowrider – Ode To Io – Review

September 1, 2000

These guys owe much of their sonic palette and most of their procedural structure to the gods of desert thunder, Kyuss.