Joshua Brown – Page 25 – Lollipop Magazine

Cock Sparrer – Run Away – Review

December 1, 1995

An exhaustive retrospective would be more in order than an EP designed for Cock Sparrer completists only.

Chris Haskett – Language – Review

December 1, 1995

Super-artsy, deft guitar playing with random sound bites and occasional cello and viola, released by Henry Rollins’ label.

Cheater Slicks – Don’t Like You – Review

December 1, 1995

At times, they out-Stooge the Stooges with their metal-grinder meets spin-cycle guitars. The harmonica and swampy rockabilly feel reminds me of Blues Explosion.

Chaos UK – Floggin’ the Corpse – Review

December 1, 1995

Among the inventors of crust. This is a marginally listenable live recording from ’83, four unreleased studio tracks, and outtakes from the UK/DK soundtrack.

Under the Volcano – #27 – Review

December 1, 1995

A short, bitterly transcendent fiction piece entitled “Why I Ate My Wife” by M. Gira of Swans, and an interview. A fanzine, sometimes marshmallowy positive.

This Is Boston, Not LA – Review

December 1, 1995

Even though these bands would go on to release some landmark material, no one has before or since released a record of such concentrated explosive punk energy.

Taste – Review

December 1, 1995

Frantically inspired scratchings and wailings from the scuff zone. Ostensibly the best of underground aural abrasion, primarily from the USA and Japan.

The Bottle Rockets – The Brooklyn Side – Review

December 1, 1995

The Bottle Rockets may sound a little too reminiscent of middle-aged mom heartthrob rock, e.g., the Bruces Hornsby and Springsteen. Look a little deeper.

Space Needle – “Sun Doesn’t Love Me” – Review

December 1, 1995

Space Needle are not boring pop. They’re one of the most satisfying and challenging bands around, and if the pop’s there, it’s anything but ostentatious.

Skunk Anansie – Paranoid & Sunburnt – Review

December 1, 1995

They brought us Sabbath, Priest, Motörhead, but have been relatively silent in the metal category recently. It took a black lesbian skinhead to stand apart.