Jamie Kiffel – Page 16 – Lollipop Magazine

Natacha Atlas – Gedida – Review

June 1, 1999

Not just a hip-grinding gimmick to distract drunken bachelors from bad baba ganoush. This Arabic singer delivers real rhythm with her hip rolls.

Monostar – The Airport – Review

June 1, 1999

Monostar evokes visions of soft-haired, prepubescent raver boys cuddling into knockoff ’70s jerseys, considering the timelessness of their flaking body glitter.

Virgin Voices – A Tribute to Madonna Volume One – Review

June 1, 1999

Rarely does a track on this disc take Madonna any further than she’s taken herself, and no more is proven than the monetary value of a remixed hit.

Heavenly Voices – Review

June 1, 1999

The Gathering’s sweetly atonal vocals (“You have forsaken me”) might be Mary’s own gentle mourning to God, for His treatment of her son.

Looking Glass Bowl – Fiction

April 1, 1999

It was clear glass with a rainbow painted on the bowl, and it had always sat on the shelf in the den. I don’t remember when I stopped seeing it.

Buffalo Tom – Smitten – Review

April 1, 1999

Acoustic-strummed stray dogs, flower-warped stone and secret societies make sweet poesy of dim New England introspections in Buffalo Tom’s sixth, Smitten.

The Nevada Bachelors – Carrots & So On – Review

April 1, 1999

At the risk of being sued for malpractice, I diagnose The Nevada Bachelors as Placebo on Prozac.

Vallejo – Beautiful Life – Review

April 1, 1999

Lazy man’s Black Crowes, sometimes salsified and rippled with steel drums, occasionally stirred with a little lounge music, or shaken with honky-tonk guitars.

Furslide – Adventure – Review

April 1, 1999

A good measure of funk, scat vocals, groovy minimalism, maniacal cackles, and a ghostly waltz all rub elbows until the skin scores raw.

Fl. Oz. – Vegetable Kingdom – Review

April 1, 1999

The lively, personable piano takes a flying leap into the musical primelight, dancing audacious circles around its player’s flagrantly uncooperative lyrics.