Jon Sarre – Page 47 – Lollipop Magazine

Scooch Pooch – Their Original Sins – Review

December 1, 1996

This comp has no theme, it’s not a tribute/benefit. It’s just flat-out unadorned rock ‘n’ roll music, loud ‘n’ coarse ‘n’ white trash, like it’s supposed to be.

Railroad Jerk – The Third Rail – Review

December 1, 1996

One of the few indie rock bands who don’t allow their unbridled sense of detachment to teeter off into the realms of boredom.

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Now I Got Worry – Review

December 1, 1996

The disco strings, funk riffs, and a good deal of the “Number one blues singer in the country” cheerleader-speak that colored 1994’s Orange are absent.

Fifi – Sinkhole – Review

December 1, 1996

It’s fasterlouder coolass “stop/start/solo/stop/ start/etc.” I woulda loved this back when I thought Minor Threat was the greatest band on the planet.

My Top Ten List – Column

December 1, 1996

Steel Miners – All Hopped Up: Six scuzzy nuggets that fly by in two minute garage bursts. It’s coarse, crude, mean, and hands down the best record of 1996.

Sarre-Chasm – Nowhere by Nothing ’96 – Column

December 1, 1996

The much-hyped and highly overrated North By Northwest Music and Media Conference blew into Portland this weekend. It wore out its welcome like a distant relative.

Sarre-Chasm – Column

November 1, 1996

My musing in this space will mostly be concerned with bands, and the various sub-cultural concerns and other peripheral crap that affects music and vice versa.

Crossfire – Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute – Review

October 1, 1996

Everyone plays really swell. Perfect, like a Xerox copy, which makes it a copy of a copy (of a copy of a copy).

Melvins – Stag – Review

October 1, 1996

Stag documents the moment Melvins decided their Atlantic deal was not worth the trouble. It’s funny, annoying, and, once in a while, downright brilliant.

Loudspeaker – Re-Vertebrate – Review

September 1, 1996

Loudspeaker has more in common with funk than punk, noise, or hardcore, and as far as the grooves go, they’re pretty soulless.