Lollipop Magazine

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.”

Dead Boys – Live at CBGB’s 1977 – Review

June 13, 2005

Prime era kickass punk rock from Cleveland’s Iggy-fixated rocker casualties. Filmed when people in NY thought that this roaring splatter was gonna be big.

Les Pauls & Breaking Glass – A Compilation of Various Sin City Artists – Review

February 22, 2002

Great take on the good ol’ rock and roll apres ’77 division. Much like – and sharing bands with – the Fistful of Rock series.

Sarre-Chasm – Throwing Words Against the Wall – Column

September 1, 1999

Moronic. At base, it’s an insult, but after the late ’70s, it was a compliment in a highbrow-to-low sorta way.

Sarre-Chasm – A Different Kind of Art Rock – Column

September 1, 1998

“It was a desperate stubborn refusal of the world, a total rejection. We had been promised the end of the world as children, and we weren’t getting it.”

Dead Boys – Twistin’ on the Devil’s Fork – Review

March 1, 1998

Six songs from Young…, six from We Have Come…, all recorded like shit, live at CBGB’s.

Sarre-Chasm – Taking Stock Thus Far – Column

November 1, 1997

Music makes the world livable, and good music can make this often metaphorical and occasionally literal garbage heap much more so, ‘cept it’s a bitch to find.

Dead Boys – Younger, Louder & Snottier – Review

September 1, 1997

A standard-setting self-destructive punk album, bringing out the raw, throat-shredding vocals of Stiv Bator and the fuck-overdubs guitarwork and skin-bashing.