Lollipop Magazine

Firewater – Songs We Should Have Written – Review

April 12, 2004

The songs stretch far and wide, from Johnny Cash to Sonny Bono to Robyn Hitchcock, and all with that typical Firewater flair, the booze-soaked, horn-spiked, Eastern Europe-gutter trawling sound conjures up the image of drunken Mariachis in Kosovo.

Firewater – The Man On The Burning Tightrope – Review

October 22, 2003

Seven years down the line, Tod A is still quick with one-liners jammed into drunken European wedding band music. Difference this time? A circus theme.

The Flaming Sideburns – Sky Pilots – Review

September 24, 2003

Rock and roll that’ll remind you of your grandad’s scratchy copy of The Stones’ Between the Buttons and The Creation’s early Mod power pop (Who-style) singles.

Sahara Hotnights- Jennie Bomb – Review

June 20, 2003

Like a Swedish garage rock version of early Donnas, they’re cute, they rock pretty hard, but the singer yelps and hisses like a pissy kitty instead of sings.

The Flaming Sideburns – Save Rock ‘n’ Roll – Interview

January 3, 2003

An Interview with vocalist Eduardo Martinez

The Stratford 4 – The Revolt Against Tired Noises – Review

February 22, 2002

I think there’re people out there like The Strokes who do it okay (short songs), but they get irritating in doses greater than a few songs.

Firewater – Psychopharmacology – Interview

February 22, 2002

An interview with singer Tod A

David Candy – Play Power – Review

February 22, 2002

Happy, psychedelic pop music, in the style of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. But by a self-important revolutionary beatnik poet.

Black Box Recorder – The Worst Of – Review

February 8, 2002

Like a pretty demon, Nixey powders her vixen voice and softly jolts listeners with lines like “whatever happened to good old-fashioned brutality?”

Black Box Recorder – The Facts of Life – Review

June 1, 2001

Gentle, moody and powdery vocals over a plush tapestry of guitars, light synth and snare, weave a thick warp of easily listenable music with sardonic lyrics.