Lollipop Magazine

Dub Trio – Another Sound Is Dying – Review

June 1, 2008

The move towards heavy via dub reggae isn’t generally smeared on Headbangers’ Ball, but it lurks, and every few years, something flows lava-like up.

Goon Moon – Licker’s Last Leg – Review

August 20, 2007

Druggy sway fest rolling down the highway blazed by T-Rex, Earth 18, and Bowie. Members of QOTSA, Masters of Reality, Desert Sessions, and Marilyn Manson.

Unsane – Visqueen – Review

March 30, 2007

Visqueen is lugubrious and queasy in that Entombedly mid-tempo death Flipper-funk way that Unsane have touched (but not tongued) before.

Hella – There’s No 666 in Outer Space – Review

March 9, 2007

They’ve decided math rock, ’90s emo, prog rock antics, pomp punk, and old King Crimson records can all be culled and cuddled into soul yearning.

Melvins – (A) Senile Animal – Review

November 10, 2006

Really heavy rock; not metal, even as they absorbed that dynamic/language/attack as tots/post-tots as Black Flag rung their bell and called’m home to dinner.

Peeping Tom – Review

July 28, 2006

“A tamer General Patton Vs. The X-ecutioners. Or a more playful Lovage.” Don’t let first impressions fool you. A pop record only Mike Patton could produce.

Isis – Panopticon – Review

June 13, 2005

This generation’s Godflesh have returned. Equally epic and bombastic but with a different focus this time around: Melodies instead of sheer crushing riffage.

Venomous Concept – Retroactive Abortion – Review

January 31, 2005

WOW!! Side project of ex-Brutal Truth vocalist Kevin Sharp, King Buzzo Osbourne from Melvins/Fantômas, and Shane Embury and Danny Herrera from Napalm Death.

Fantomas – Delirium Cordia – Review

August 3, 2004

The ONE song of the album strives to be ambient, moody, violent, seductive, strange, and unpredictable, but it sounds like a song off the debut stretched out.

Desert Sessions – 9 & 10: I See You Hearin Me – Review

June 14, 2004

People involved: PJ Harvey, Josh Homme, Dean Ween, Twiggy Ramirez, Chris Goss, Josh Freese, Brian O’Connor, Joey Castillo, and more.