Lollipop Magazine

Tomahawk – Mit Gas – Interview

October 29, 2003

An interview with vocalist Mike Patton

Melvins – 26 Songs – Review

October 1, 2003

Recorded in 1986, it shows the band at its most heavy and least experimental. For fans who’ve tired of the band’s increasingly experimental and spotty output.

Mondo Generator – A Drug Problem That Never Existed – Review

September 24, 2003

Nick Oliveri’s meth-riddled, screeching 13-year old Queens of the Stone Age persona is given an album’s worth of space in which to jump around and break stuff.

Skeleton Key – Obtanium – Interview

June 20, 2003

An interview with singer/bassist Erik Sanko

Moistboyz – III – Review

January 31, 2003

An odd mix of high-octane gonzo rock produced noisy in places and high-school metal band shitty in others. Pure American yahoo: Guns, booze’n’titties dirt rock.

Isis – Oceanic – Review

January 17, 2003

The quintet no longer rely on a straight-ahead “wall of noise,” instead submerging the listener in an ocean of effects, hence the title.

Tomahawk – Review

March 8, 2002

A beautifully-sculpted hard rock record rooted in the expansive non-arena ’70s/early-’80s rock, encompassing hard “new wave” era gunch.

Fantômas – The Director’s Cut – Review

February 22, 2002

For all the “chaos,” they’re pretty predictable. They play soft, you know it’s gonna shift to thrash. They play loud, you know they’re gonna shift into jazz.

eX-Girl – Back to the Mono Kero – Review

February 22, 2002

A left-of-center, high energy, melodic Naked City. Avant-guard vocal harmonies mixed with rock-trio sounds, albeit through a prism of serious weirdness.

DJ Eddie Def – Inner Scratch Demons – Review

February 22, 2002

He’s deliberately annoying, throwing in ice-pick scratches over tinny beats, and mixing in samples of screaming babys.