Lollipop Magazine

Good Clean Fun – Between Christian Rock and a Hard Place – Review

May 5, 2006

Good god we need Good Clean Fun! The hardcore/punk/emo scene is as stale as month-old gym socks, and eyeliner/bed-headed boys really need to be made fun of.

Circa Survive – Juturna – Review

June 7, 2005

Everyone thinks that’s a girl singing. It’s a dude named Anthony Green, who was in Saosin. He teamed up with a childhood friend, fresh out of This Day Forward.

Bane – The Note – Review

May 26, 2005

I’ve never cared much for most of Bane’s songs, but they sometimes surprise me. Like the end of “Swan Song,” the part with the group shouts and a vocal cameo.

Weerd Science – Friends & Nervous Breakdowns – Review

March 28, 2005

The sticker on the cover warned me, but I checked out the hip-hop side project of Coheed and Cambria drummer Josh Eppard anyway. It’s as awful as it sounds.

Vaux – Plague Music – Review

February 21, 2005

The metal edge is chamfered by dramatic soaring Goth rock progressions and honed with Sabbath crunch. Spacey electronic squeaks put a modern stamp on the piece.

Bars – Introducing – Review

February 7, 2005

Here’s a band that’s firmly entrenched in the hardcore ethos of scream and blast away, but is happy to mix in a healthy portion of ’70s arena rock riff-o-mania.

Black Cross – Art Offensive – Review

October 29, 2003

Louisville, Kentucky’s Black Cross are a band on a mission: To rock out.

Armor For Sleep – Dream To Make Believe – Review

October 29, 2003

Dark and delicate, painfully distant lyrics, rocking melodies that crash in at all the right times…

The Hope Conspiracy – Endnote – Review

June 13, 2003

The Boston-based bombers let ’em fly on their second release, considered to be more “progressive” than their first, Cold Blue.

Fairweather – Alaska – Review

February 14, 2003

Fairweather’s better than most emo punk bands – as are most of Equal Vision’s recent signings – and Alaska proves it yet again. Put together by J. Robbins.