Jon Sarre – Page 32 – Lollipop Magazine

The Neatbeats – Far and Near – Review

June 1, 1999

The Neatbeats are fans of the early Beatles, the Yardbirds, the Searchers, etc. They show their appreciation in the most sincere Nipponese manner.

The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs – Live on KXLU – Interview

June 1, 1999

An interview with Frank Meyer and Dino Everett

Bloody Red Battle Royal – Review

April 1, 1999

This compilation is more like a party than an eye-gougin’, back-breakin’, pile-drivin’ Texas chainsaw steelcage death match.

T Model Ford – You Better Keep Still – Review

April 1, 1999

No sophomore slump. One of the rawest, ass-whompin’est blues talents to stalk outta nowhere since people knew what the fuck “antediluvian” meant.

Chuck E Weiss – Extremely Cool – Review

April 1, 1999

If I knew why it took more than two decades for Chuck E. Weiss to put out his second record, I’d fill ya in.

Goin’ After Pussy – Review

April 1, 1999

I don’t think subtlety is much of a virtue over at Junk Records World Headquarters. Nah, naked obviousness is probably more like it.

The Young Pioneers – Free The… – Review

April 1, 1999

These humorless pinko-punkers are often ultra-listenable and occasionally great, but that’s only if I ignore their radical socialist “message.”

Sarre-Chasm – Four Typewritten Pages – Column

April 1, 1999

So I’m sitting here, squinting through the harsh light of the new year, gulping yesterday’s flat brut outta someone else’s discarded glass…

The Styrenes – All the Wrong People are Dying – Review

April 1, 1999

Hot on the heels of the Styrenes’ first record in close to a decade, the smash We Care, So You Don’t Have To, comes this compilation of difficult-to-find work.

The Neanderthals – The Latest Menace to the Human Race – Review

April 1, 1999

Their lyrics’ll make ya chuckle (a sample, from “Too Many Nights in the Gin Mill”: “Spend half my money on women and booze, the rest I spend foolishly”).