Lollipop Magazine

D.I. – The Suburbia Sessions – Review

July 1, 2008

Practice space run through shot live and unedited by the Flipside crew. You may already know “Richard Hung Himself.” (Slayer rocked it on Undisputed Attitude.)

Controlled Bleeding – Before the Quiet – Review

July 1, 2008

A snapshot of a band as well as an era as it was heaved up out of the reconstruction of the bohemian/art-attack via power chord beatdown after the hippie thing.

House of Fire – Review

June 1, 2008

Cleanly sung and chimingly wrought, House of Fire works the territory between shoegaze and Brit-pop before those impulses filled for an annulment.

Dub Trio – Another Sound Is Dying – Review

June 1, 2008

The move towards heavy via dub reggae isn’t generally smeared on Headbangers’ Ball, but it lurks, and every few years, something flows lava-like up.

Terror – Live: The Bowery Collection – Review

June 1, 2008

Live, warts and all pig-iron tough hardcore recorded live at CBGB’s 06.10.04 with blessing from Trustkill Records. It’s fucking straight up.

Teacher’s Pet – Review

June 1, 2008

Classic, mid/late-70s amped up guitar rock and roll with the churnin’, yernin’, burnin’, winsome gal crazy focus firmly grasped in hand.

Pagans – The Blue Album – Review

May 1, 2008

One step up from boot recording, a rock and roll attack based in the classic Who, Stones, Pretty Things, ’60s Anglo-attack shot through a snot-garage attack.

Dead Boys – Return of The Living Dead Boys: Halloween Night 1986 – Review

April 1, 2008

On Halloween night, 1986, Midwest’s hammering punk legends Dead Boys showed up to collect their beer money. In the ’80s, we called this “good bootleg quality.”

Punk’s Not Dead – Review

March 1, 2008

A really good movie about some specific fallout from the P-word. Well shot, nicely edited, thoughtfully put together, a buncha nice interview stuff appended.

The Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal – Vol. 3: The 90s – Review

March 1, 2008

Herein, you get about 3100 reviews, the stuff you expect in the metal genre/gene-splice spiced with heavy aggressive music tangential to metal.