Lollipop Magazine

The Murder City Devils – Empty Bottles Broken Hearts – Review

January 1, 1999

MCD fills Empty Bottles with more high-octane punk intoxicants than can be legally sold in the Bible Belt on Sundays.

Crime Family – Rock Cartel – Review

January 1, 1999

CF’s latest, Rock Cartel, is an economy-sized bucket of garage, punk, grunge, and distortion.

Grant Lee Buffalo – Jubilee – Review

November 1, 1998

Gifted with a plaintive rocker’s voice and the ability to affect a Motown falsetto, Phillips manipulates pitch and dynamics for maximum vocal effect.

The Night Chicago Died – Fiction

November 1, 1998

Street level new music, which had previously been delightfully profane, had been rudely adopted by sacred operatives. Nothing could ever be the same.

Hominy – Review

September 1, 1998

Like Missouri’s Bottle Rockets, Hominy launches a powerful American aesthetic from a solid rock footing.

I Left Both Earth and the 20th Century – Fiction

September 1, 1998

In two years, barring a nuclear flare-up of the kind said to have destroyed the humans in Planet of the Apes, all of us will leave the 20th century behind.

Girlfriend in a Coma – Review

September 1, 1998

Though only eight years have passed since Generation X, both Coupland, and the late-born miscreants about which he writes, have come of age.

Psychopharmacology, Audiobooks, and the Possession of Literature – Fiction

September 1, 1997

“Possession is nine-tenths of literature,” my cousin once said, his tongue firmly holding title to cheek.

Mike Royko: The Rare Newspaperman – Fiction

July 1, 1997

Mike Royko was the midwesterner’s Jimmy Breslin, a two-fisted muckraker who could write himself and his blue collar cronies into every maelstrom he covered.

The Sporting Death of Soundgarden – Fiction

June 1, 1997

Unlike his modern-day Seattle counterparts, broadcaster Brickhouse, soused or no, would never have announced the passing of second-line heavy metal bands.