Craig Regala – Page 6 – Lollipop Magazine

American Speedway – Ship of Fools – Review

March 1, 2008

Stomping rocker punk growl jammed thru Motörhead’s dirt metal. This guitar ethos has been defined by the great Fistful of Rock series. Look’m up, great stuff.

Tad – Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears – Review

February 1, 2008

Pure hard rock riff action without Soundgarden/Alice In Chains’ metal, Mudhoney’s salt blast garage howl, or Pearl Jam’n’Nirvana’s classic rock balladry.

Destroy All Monsters – Live in Tokyo + Osaka – Review

February 1, 2008

Bleeping honking and farting sine/cosine waves that fell from the art-inflected U.S. pre-punk underground’s soft, white underbelly via rusty knife c-section.

Plastic Crimewave Sound – No Wonderland – Review

February 1, 2008

Pink Floyd (’67), Hawkwind (’70), and Chrome (’77) are antecedents, as is Amon Duul, Guru Guru, and Can. Joy Division and Throbbing Gristle are in the diet too.

Akimbo – Navigating The Bronze – Review

February 1, 2008

These guys take the big brawling kickass thing and pile on tons of torn up T&G/AmRep/Skin Graft art grunt to give it genre-busting impact.

Puny Human – Universal Freak Out – Review

January 1, 2008

Big, beefy riffs in the warm rockin’ classic arena rock mode strained through both the Doc Martin ’80s and motor cycle boot/Chuck Taylor ’90s.

Joe Fahey – Tote Bag – Review

January 1, 2008

If you can spin Lou Reed, James McMurtry, mid-period Kinks, solo Paul Westerberg, Willie Nelson, Towns Van Zant, or Robin Hitchcock, you can roll this.

Dead Town Revival – Hasta La Muerte – Review

January 1, 2008

Anthemic choruses and melodic guitar lines that go from electric ’66 folk up through Mick’s leads in The Clash to later guitar rockers like Leatherface.

Stevie Tombstone – Devil’s Game – Review

December 21, 2007

This stuff is banged together from classic country and folk like much of the recent decade’s alt.country or Americana. Sounds for real to me.

Mademoiselle – Review

December 21, 2007

You can run this in a rock block with Jerry Cantrell, U2, Jeff Buckley, Be Bop Deluxe, STP, The Mission, Jane’s Addiction, and The Smashing Pumpkins.