Jamie Kiffel – Page 15 – Lollipop Magazine

Verbena – Into the Pink – Review

September 1, 1999

Follow the melancholy curve of the dragon’s tail from the first piano-minor key track… right up his scaly body and into his waiting pink mouth.

Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco – Fellow Workers – Review

September 1, 1999

Fellow Workers takes Phillips’ living, burning pleas for equality and justice, and backs them with Ani DiFranco’s plodding, plain electronic noodling.

Chlorine – Primer – Review

September 1, 1999

Cigarette scratchy vocals, guitars that grind out the power chords like an electric meat mauler and the occasional, heavy-thumbed ballad.

Fountains of Wayne – Utopia Parkway – Review

September 1, 1999

This is head-bobbing amour, Neil Sedaka updated for the new millennium. Throughout the whole disc, most of my “ha ha ha”s stopped on “h….”

Black Box Recorder – England Made Me – Review

September 1, 1999

The stories are weird, realistic, and leave plenty of room for your mind to color in the humor with a black marker.

Epperley – Sophomore Slump – Review

June 1, 1999

Turn it up loud, chug fast, and fuzz into the banality of bottom-of-the-bottle booze and need-a-kickstand-or-I-can’t-stand kegstand youth.

Disappointment Incorporated – F=Q – Review

June 1, 1999

From cathartic, soaring space noises to psychedelic, brain-twitchy breaths and minor chord shifts to enraged, alarmingly sober screams.

Black Tape for a Blue Girl – As One Aflame Laid Bare By Desire – Review

June 1, 1999

Ashen-faced lovers who equate death with the soul-sapping pain of passion fill this minimalist recording while maintaining meaning for the crushed velvet Goth.

Swimmer – Surreal – Review

June 1, 1999

With guitar string-buzzy vocals like a tongue out-of-focus, McCarron edges hair metal with falsetto, restrained ballast yells, a ballad, and elemental guitars.

Milksop Holly – Milkweeds – Review

June 1, 1999

Mara Flynn’s smooth vibrato opens over every light guitar meandering which flits, flies, and drifts like soft, floaty, sweet and sappy milkweed pods.