Lollipop Magazine

Bad Religion – The Empire Strikes First – Interview

December 27, 2004

An interview with bassist/backup vocalist Jay Bentley

Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come – Review

December 20, 2004

Tired of kids ignoring their political diatribes while beating each other up, the band retreated to the studio. The result was The Shape of Punk to Come.

Nikola Sarcevic – Lock-Sport-Krock – Review

December 6, 2004

Millencolin guitarist/vocalist Nikola Sarcevic has gone acoustic for his solo debut. Irresistible melodies stripped of fast tempos and flashy guitar licks.

Division Of Laura Lee – Dasnotcompute – Review

December 1, 2004

Any garage band can sound like The Stooges/MC5, but D.O.L.L. mixes in danceable Goth with skull-crunching, ball-buzzing goodness.

Pulley – Matters – Review

November 15, 2004

Helmed by metal guru Matt Hyde, Matters – excluding the opener – is a precise, intense, and seasoned output from guys who’ve been at the SoCal game forever.

Bad Religion – Along the Way – Review

October 4, 2004

Over 10 years since their documentary of the ’89 European tour. They riled through 20+ songs at top speed, packed crowds of gangly, euphoric social outcasts.

Scatter The Ashes – Devout/Modern Hymn – Review

September 20, 2004

Described as Cave In with dreamy Cure echoes. There’s something to that, but strip off the crunchy Converge riffing and you’re staring at a jazz record.

Refused – Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent – Review

September 20, 2004

In under three minutes, “Rather be Dead” took metalcore to its zenith, and rendered it obsolete. Seriously, where do you go after such a revelatory statement?

Nekromantix – Dead Girls Don’t Cry – Review

September 6, 2004

Nekromantix are delving into the dark Americana that brought us B-movies, gunfights, and ghostly sweater-dropping prom queens.

Bad Religion – Suffer – Review

August 30, 2004

Suffer laid down the quintessential “pop punk” formula forging a new SoCal sound that would shape punk for the next 15 years.