Lollipop Magazine

Syrup – Solid Gold Asstro Soul – Review

April 1, 2000

Southern four-piece focusing on funky rawk kinda like an updated Black Oak Arkansas. Not heavy, but rock’n’roll groovy. Gets better each time I hear it.

Fifty Tons of Black Terror – My Idle Hands – Review

April 1, 2000

The music, words, and singing all sync up like a Touch & Go band from ten years gone.

Superstar – Review

April 1, 2000

The idea of a klutzy outsider suffering through humiliation only to prevail in the end has been done to death, but there are worse movies of that ilk out there.

Nickelback – The State – Review

April 1, 2000

Look at ‘m as a less bombastic Creed. Real pro playing, mixing, production, the big vocal treatment with that aggravating post-Vedder “sensitive manliness.”

Leadfoot – Take a Look – Review

April 1, 2000

Tuneful as fuck without sacrificing the rock’n’roll. Kinda like Columbus Ohio’s Bob City when they get in “that” mood. Tour ’em both with Alabama Thunderpussy.

Core – The Hustle is On – Review

January 1, 2000

You get a more fluid flow with less stomp-pound and more rolling note flow; at times close to Mile’s Pangea/Agartha. Any doomishness is ghostlike.

Caustic Resin – Trick Question – Review

January 1, 2000

Good to very-good guitar stroke concerned with things falling apart, (minds, relationships, feelings). Total blues feeling w/o adhering to any conventions.

Unida – Coping with the Urban Coyote – Review

January 1, 2000

Unida comes on mid-tempo and strong as classic kick-ass AC/DC, wound as tight and powerful as James Brown’s power funk.

Oneida – Annihilation to Traitors – Review

January 1, 2000

A choir here, a trumpet there, a guest guitarist in the middle, they make the wise choice of welding together a kind of identity that side-steps genre hopping.

The Desert Sessions – Vol. V/VI – Review

January 1, 2000

Josh Homme (Kyuss/QOTSA) gathers friends to lay down some grooves, come up with some ditties, and engage in various fuckery that gets recorded and plapped out.