Lollipop Magazine

Pigface – Easy Listening… – Review

September 11, 2003

Easy Listening rolls through more styles of music than collaborators (En Esch, Groovie Mann, Chris Connelly, Chris Vrenna, Keith Levine, Penn Jillette, etc.).

Voodou – The Blessing of Curses – Review

January 3, 2003

A hot female singer (who can actually sing) is matched to guitars & programming, mostly mid-tempo, juggling real & synth drums. Martin Atkins produced.

TRS-80 – Mr. Kickass – Review

November 22, 2002

Imagine The Orb out on the cold streets of Chicago, scrounging for beer money. Or DJ Spooky hopped up on something speedy.

Notes From Thee Real Underground – 2 – Review

November 11, 2002

Reading off the bio: “These bands (on Notes from Thee Underground 2) will soon follow in the path paved by Tub Ring, Pointy Teeth, CEOXiME, The Follow…”

Cash From Chaos – A Tribute to Johnny Cash – Review

November 11, 2002

Industrial bands covering Johnny Cash. When you want tongue-in-cheek, you get seriousness. When you want a dead-serious, brutal version, you get a goof.

Opium Jukebox – Never Mind the Bhangra, Here’s The… – Review

November 8, 2002

The ever-mercurial Martin Atkins and friends got extremely high, picked up a sitar, did some drum’n’bass programming, and covered The Sex Pistols songs.

From Russia With Love – A Russian Tribute to Pigface – Review

August 2, 2002

A buncha Russian bands have tried to honor Pigface on From Russia with Love, and it’s a nice idea, and there are a few good moments.

Tub Ring – Drake Equation – Review

June 28, 2002

Tub Ring works in small doses, but tends to wear thin after a point. Intellectually interesting, technically superior, but it just doesn’t hit you in the gut.

Pigface – The Best of – Review

February 22, 2002

Tho’ by now an institution, Pigface has always stayed a step to the side of the Industrial Nation, putting out combinations of annoyance and funky beats.

Tribute to the Pixies – Review

June 4, 2001

Japan is known for the most atrocious noise bands as well as some of the most saccharine pop. The Pixies were a buncha noise heads who wrote pop songs.