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.

The Last Vegas – Seal The Deal – Review

January 1, 2006

Part ’70s hard rock with wet production and layered choruses and stoner riffery, part punkified glam with way more wild-eyed bottle throwing than I remember.

The Last Vegas – Lick ’em and Leave ’em – Review

December 6, 2004

Eleven tracks of patented Get Hip swagger-rock, big rock recorded on a little budget, just like New York Dolls and all the bands who’ve come in their wake.

The Paybacks – Knock Loud – Review

November 22, 2002

They may not be much to look at, but these Detroit bad boys gots the rock’n’roll grit and pedigree (The Henchmen, Rocket 455, Ten High).

Silver Tongued Devil – Red-Eyed and Tongue-Tied – Review

February 22, 2002

Pretty okay stuff in that Motörhead to Zeke to Nashville Pussy stripbar strip-mined vein. Supersonic whoop-ass is what these guys are all about.

Rocket 455 – Go to Hell – Review

February 22, 2002

Altho’ ex-Gorie and future Demolition Doll Rod Dan Kroha was a foundin’ member, as a band they turned their noses up at anything retro.

Irving Klaws – Pajama Party – Review

February 22, 2002

The Klaws aren’t borin’ and rockabilly bands usually don’t write songs about panty sniffin’ and surf bands don’t really write songs with lyrics. Dig my six!

Turbonegro – Darkness Forever! – Review

February 22, 2002

There’s a tongue’n’cheek quality goin’ on here, ‘specially when they do stuff like “Back to Dungaree High” and “Don’t Say Motherfucker, Motherfucker.”

Gore Gore Girls – Strange Girls – Review

February 22, 2002

Gore Gore Girls even sound more teasey than pissed, which is a welcome thing since most all female bands that rock only wanna sound angry.

The Neatbeats – Mercurial – Review

February 22, 2002

Japan’s Neatbeats make it their lives’ work to duplicate early ’60s teenybeat pop stuff like The Beatles and everyone else honed their chops on.

The Mullens – Tough to Tell – Review

February 22, 2002

Solid mid-tempo garage punk, not like it gets transcendental or anything like that (which probably wouldn’t be a real good thing anyhow).

The Green Pajamas – Ghosts of Love – Review

February 22, 2002

I can appreciate the fact that the band almost broke up while making this record, since they doubtlessly spent too much time together recording the damn thing.

Donovan’s Brain – Tiny Crustacean Light Show – Review

February 22, 2002

Some sorta collective of spaced-out psychedelia, cuz they probably never got over it. That’s okay. I’m sure lotsa other people also never got over it.

High School Sweethearts – Passing Notes – Review

April 1, 2000

As stiletto-sharp nods to ’60s girl groups punked out by a motley crew which includes one ex-Electric Frankenstein and assorted NY/NJ hardcore vets.

Deep Reduction – Review

April 1, 2000

Deep Reduction is a generally disappointing foray thru various rock’n’blues pieces that go nowhere everyone’s been before.

The Frantic Flattops – Rock-n-Roll Murder – Review

January 1, 2000

The Frantic Flattops occasionally venture into swing territory, they even cross into non-Dixieland jazz, and punk isn’t outta their repertoire either.

The Sons of Hercules – Get Lost – Review

January 1, 2000

These Chesterfield Kings soundalike freakazoid’s’ll make ya forget that there’re few too many bands who can really play frenzied R&B-styled rock’n’roll.

The Mullens – Go Where the Action Is – Review

January 1, 2000

Like a turbo-charged Pinto roaring off to the mid-ranks of mediocrity, Get Hip Records gives the world the second full-length from the Mullens.

The Irving Klaws – The Pervasonic Sounds of… – Review

January 1, 2000

Purists may find their nutso bigbeat from the schizo ward not as authentic as some of their labelmates, but the Klaws rock like Torrette’s Syndrome.

Highway 13 – Thrill Show – Review

January 1, 2000

Pittsburgh’s own Highway 13 sticks most closely to the traditional concept of slap stand-up bass, twangy guitar and skeletal, stripped drums.

The Razzels – Suck my First Impression – Review

September 1, 1999

The Razzels’ pop punk stylin’s immediately bring to mind a less witty Green Day or a Lookout! band that… uh… hell… they all sound the fuckin’ same…

The Nitwitz – Dark Side of the Spoon – Review

September 1, 1999

These Dutch punk vet nobodies usedta be BGK before they were the Nitwitz and before they were BGK they were the Nitwitz.

The Mount McKinleys – Stacked Up (and Get It!) – Review

September 1, 1999

These Pittsburgh garage shockers do noisy drowning man imitations to make even grumpy old Billy Childish crack a smirk cuz he knows he stole it all, too.

The Loons – Love’s Dead Leaves – Review

September 1, 1999

Ebbot Lundberg of Soundtrack of Our Lives flew in and recorded ’60s psychedelic revivalists The Loons, then went back to Sweden and added instrumental overdubs.

Los Ass-Draggers – Kings of Cheezy – Review

June 1, 1999

Short and sweaty by these Spanish psychopaths who’ve got about quarto momento to kill you with their New Bomb Turks on meth antithesis of ass draggin’.