Craig Regala – Page 9 – Lollipop Magazine

Grass Is Always Greener (On the Other Side) – Review

April 20, 2007

Get Hip Records take bands with the ’60s punk/garage/folk-rock/psychedelic thing in various states of “authenticity” and put out their goddamn records.

Unknown Instructors – The Masters Voice – Review

April 20, 2007

Sounds like members Watt (Minutemen, Mike Watt), George Hurly (Minutemen), and Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust) stretching their ’80s experience into ’60s roots.

The Vein – Monsters and Men – Review

April 20, 2007

The sweep of classic rock’s big-voiced mix of European folk traditions and U.S.-bred country and blues. U2, The Doors, Pearl Jam, and Live come to mind.

The Knights of Fuzz – The Garage and Psychedelic Music Explosion from 1980 to Now – Review

April 20, 2007

A DVD of clips from bands that dug cool stuff book-ended by ’62 -’68. They were usually fueled by the concurrent snot punk and power pop stuff swirling around.

Hypnos 69 – The Eclectic Measure – Review

April 6, 2007

Clarinet, glockenspiel, mellotron, Moog, saxophone, and theramin with the energy and tact to float notes, melodies, and jazz time-keeping, without hollering.

Unsane – Visqueen – Review

March 30, 2007

Visqueen is lugubrious and queasy in that Entombedly mid-tempo death Flipper-funk way that Unsane have touched (but not tongued) before.

Slot – The Sweet Black Bear – Review

March 30, 2007

The singing is dreamy in a shoegazer way, directly plainspoken or a phased sound in the background, no matter what she does, it works.

Hella – There’s No 666 in Outer Space – Review

March 9, 2007

They’ve decided math rock, ’90s emo, prog rock antics, pomp punk, and old King Crimson records can all be culled and cuddled into soul yearning.

Snowbyrd – Review

March 9, 2007

These are rock guys moving into rootsier music. The vocalist sounds a bunch like Big Audio Dynamite/Clash singer Mick Jones. Friendly and kinda wistful.

Loco Gringos – Review

March 9, 2007

Similar to the Hickoids in irreverence to gloss and reverence to rockin’ the house, and dissimilar in that the rootage is less country and more a groove ride.