Jon Sarre – Page 9 – Lollipop Magazine

Smogtown – Domesticviolenceland – Review

February 22, 2002

UK-influenced punk via Orange County so ya know they soaked up their share of early Cali-core along the way.

Sixer – Saving Grace – Review

February 22, 2002

More sore throat street punk ‘cept with a better sense of melody than most’n’a heartfelt debt to older, less fashionable “reactionary” rock’n’roll.

The Four Corners – Say You’re a Scream – Review

February 15, 2002

This mix of Southern-fried garage blues, sing-song female vox, and the get-down-on-yer-knees-and-worship-at-the-alter-of-fuzz moment takes ’em outta the box.

Atombombpocketknife – God Save the ABPK – Review

February 15, 2002

I’m tryin’ to figure who this clunky monikered combo reminds me of… Poster Children? House of Large Sizes, only not as “heavy?” I dunno, Jawbox?

The Royal Fingers – Wild Eleki Deluxe – Review

February 15, 2002

Do they surf in Japan? The Ventures hit the country about a decade and a half after the U.S. Pacific Command and the kids dug ’em lots more, surfers or not.

Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue – Heavy Dirt – Review

February 15, 2002

Like his buddy Wild Billy Childish, Dan Melchior plunders elderly American musical styles (like, uh, rock’n’roll and blues) and then rams ’em back home.

Fleshies – Kill the Dreamer’s Dream – Review

February 15, 2002

Problem is, the songs don’t quite live up to their titles. In fact, Fleshies kinda suck, no matter what Biafra says about “what punk rock was supposed to be.”

Mad For The Racket – The Racketeers – Review

February 8, 2002

Wayne Kramer of MC5, The Damned’s Brian James, with a little help from The Police’s Stewart Copeland, Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan, and Blondie’s Clem Burke.

DMZ – Live at the Rat – Review

February 8, 2002

Here we got DMZ’s raw power garage shakers live in grimy black and white circa 1976 along with a whole lotta ’93 reunion – not space-filler neither.

Rocket From the Crypt – Group Sounds – Review

June 3, 2001

No bullshit rock’n’roll, only with more grandiose concepts than the New Bomb Turks, the Neckbones, or Scared of Chaka.