Joe Hacking – Page 4 – Lollipop Magazine

Dirt Merchants – Scarified – Review

March 1, 1995

From the first tortured chords of “Bullfight,” you can feel the raw energy blasting off of the silicon. They switch moods like a schizophrenic girlfriend.

Steve Vai – Alien Love Secrets – Review

March 1, 1995

Full of Vai’s energy; you can hear it in every chord and high-speed run. Alien Love Secrets displays his ever-evolving compositional and technical abilities.

Solitude Aeturnus – Through The Darkest Hour – Review

March 1, 1995

The guitars create that ethereal, doomed-existence-post-apocalyptic sound we felt during the world of the Reagan administration.

Polara – Review

March 1, 1995

Taking a straightforward alternapop sound, they throws in drum machines, Farfisas, ’70s Moogs, Wurlitzers, and vintage effects pedals.

Twisted Sister – Live at Hammersmith – Review

February 1, 1995

Twisted Sister was one of the cheesier pop-metal bands during the ’80s. The poor sound quality makes it almost comical, like a skit from Saturday Night Live.

Groovasaurus – Cheekus – Review

February 1, 1995

Groovasaurus know how to lock into a musical groove that can turn a room full of beer swillin’ younguns’ into a dancing, sweaty mass.

Sweaty Nipples – Bug Harvest – Review

February 1, 1995

Combines the best ideas from progressive metal and mainstream into a seamless, original sound. They switch instruments mid-song in their live performance.

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – D.R.I. Live – Review

February 1, 1995

D.R.I. Live, recorded entirely live and unedited, captures the raw power of D.R.I. live at the Hollywood Palladium in November of ’92.

Gus Jerusalem and the Konja Gum – Part 1,000,000,000 – Fiction

February 1, 1995

He’d expected security to catch him, or be discovered when the mall opened. But no guards appeared and the mall never opened. It was just the girls and him.

Widowmaker – Stand by for Pain – Review

February 1, 1995

If you still haven’t gotten enough of that mid-’80s metal sound, pick this one up, ’cause guys like Dee Snider aren’t gonna let it die.