Lollipop Magazine

Torrez – The Evening Drag – Review

October 1, 2003

Driving into a setting sun, still-green trees rush by with a gleam of orange as you cruise down a winding road, summer in your hair, Fall at your back tires.

Righteous Boy – I Sing Because of You – Review

July 23, 2003

The Cardigans’ bassist has assembled a gentle disc that plays like a journal over old Parisian jazz. The sound waxes mystical, sentimental, sweet, wounded.

Ani DiFranco – Evolve – Review

July 23, 2003

She uses horns, dips her toes in funky waters, and figures out piano chords to noodle in avant garde jazz. This is not the reason to listen to Ani DiFranco.

Bill Foreman – Seventeen Miles Past Indio – Review

July 13, 2003

A dreamy, heartbroken, introspective album full of twangy tenor and jangly guitars, frank, wide-mouthed stuff like Tom Waits, Dylan, and Billy Bragg melded.

Rasputina – The Lost & Found 2nd Edition – Review

June 20, 2003

Haunted cellists Rasputina offer their dankly corset-ed Phantom of the Opera-esque renditions of more rock’n’roll favorites on The Lost and Found 2nd Edition.

Ani DiFranco – So Much Shouting/So Much Laughter – Review

June 20, 2003

The Ani who learned to sneer and growl has finally joined fists with the much calmer, experimental jazz and funk self she’s presented over the past few albums.

Rilo Kiley – The Execution of All Things – Review

May 16, 2003

Rilo Kiley presents unabashedly pretentious young folkrocker commentary on the letdown that our world has apparently become.

Bangs – Call and Response – Review

May 16, 2003

With their pissy pixie shouts, the misbehaving young ladies of Bangs sound like ankle tattoos and greasy pigtails would if they could sing.

Pounded – The Official Comic Book Soundtrack – Review

April 18, 2003

The official soundtrack to the punk comic is easy to get through, fun, buoyant, and not at all punk as Reagan knew it.

The Benjamin Gate – Cintact – Review

January 17, 2003

Rock with a rich-voiced frontwoman whose alto wraps deep and lion-like around the notes. This could rock arenas, hot, singable stuff with sexy style.