Jamie Kiffel – Page 17 – Lollipop Magazine

Dash Rip Rock – Paydirt – Review

January 1, 1999

Plodding drums, serious powerchords and grinning vocals merrily punkify all that would be angst in the sometimes honky tonk, occasionally folksy Paydirt.

Deal of a Lifetime – Fiction

January 1, 1999

“What’d I tell you, Boy?” he said, not moving, voice low and gravely. “Kick back, take it easy, take a minute when the Old Man offers.”

CIV – Thirteen Day Getaway – Review

January 1, 1999

Somewhere in its fur, clutched in its curled paw, is a marker, still poised to deface an image of youth oppression… can you see it?

Block – Timing Is Everything – Review

January 1, 1999

Block smartly and sharply provides a soundtrack to the great tack that is America in the 1990s.

Bis – Intendo – Review

January 1, 1999

Where Bikini Kill had a crazed humor for all its man-eating madness, Manda’s yelps are just irritating. Memorable only for their small bird-killing frequency.

Better Than Ezra – How Does Your Garden Grow – Review

January 1, 1999

The record refuses to linger, spinning from psychotrope to meditative musical montage, from brilliant electric brain impulses to blue-purple aural tears.

Baby Ray – Monkeypuzzle – Review

January 1, 1999

Minus a small quotient of fizzly ballads, this is energy pop with extra CO2 to shoot up your sinuses and make your eyes bulge.

Angelique – Present – Review

January 1, 1999

Somewhere between ’70s funkadelic feline woman disco goofiness and ’80s gimmicky synth-with-backup-singer dance pop bops Angelique.

Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing – Review

January 1, 1999

The tracks are thick with dark thoughts and bizarre rhymes, often cryptically impenetrable, sexy without explanation and reeking of stage makeup.

Addict – Stones – Review

November 1, 1998

One might expect Addict to be an over-edited, neatly-trimmed shadow specially selected for its exemplary darkness and ideally stereotypical angst.