Joshua Brown – Page 35 – Lollipop Magazine

Sonic Youth – Screaming Fields of Sonic Love – Review

July 1, 1995

The compilation takes us backward in time, slowly stripping the varnish off their sound as we approach their ’82 debut on the last of 17 tracks.

Analogue – “Average Luck Charm” – Review

June 1, 1995

It has the usual Lou Reed style mumbling, and would be fairly generic if not for some interesting stops and starts and surprise breaks.

16 – “Tocohara”- Review

June 1, 1995

They remind me of a cross between Septic Death and Orange 9mm. The whole room was shaking with this on low volume.

The Technical Jed – Review

June 1, 1995

This debut from The Technical Jed is actually a collection of obscure singles and compilation tracks. I enjoy it more every time I put it on.

Pond – The Practice of Joy Before Death – Review

June 1, 1995

A deeply personal musical work which deserves to outlive its genre of fairly mainline alterna-rock.

Mung – Vow of Poverty – Review

June 1, 1995

The best punk rock record to come out of Boston since Rabid Reaction by the Freeze. Not since then have I heard so much honesty and emotion in an album.

Love Battery – Straight Freak Ticket – Review

June 1, 1995

Their major label debut has a production quality to kill for, and the songs have enough hooks to make for a great album, but there’s something missing.

Laughing Hyenas – Hard Times – Review

June 1, 1995

With Hard Times, the Hyenas have extractiedthe thrashier parts, keeping the personal angst, but expressed it in slower music with more melody.

Laika – Silver Apples of the Moon – Review

June 1, 1995

Silver Apples of the Moon is tribal psychedelia that echoes the voices of the tropical jungle and the urban jungle simultaneously.

Home – IX – Review

June 1, 1995

One could categorize Home from the bands they’ve toured with – Sebadoh, Yo La Tengo, and Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – but Home stand on their own.