Karl Geising | Lollipop Magazine

Japanese/American Noise Treaty – Review

December 1, 1995

This is NOISE. No fucking around – two full-length discs of music that makes Neubauten and Whitehose seem like Madonna. And that’s a compliment.

Shawn Colvin – Live ’88 – Review

December 1, 1995

During an unpleasant portion of my life, I used to go to pretentious coffeehouses, clapping politely to the latest Dylan wanna-be singing “sensitive” songs.

Gwar – Rag Na Rok – Review

December 1, 1995

They’ve beefed up their sound with samples and added a few stylistic incongruities. But the high point of the disc is definitely the lyrical content.

Terminal Sect – Gun Worship – Review

November 1, 1995

An industrial band straight out of the late ’80s, a deviant of the Front 24/Skinny Puppy era before Wax Trax! bands learned to shut up and play their guitars.

Super Junky Monkey – Screw Up – Review

November 1, 1995

They combine the blender-music aesthetic of Zorn and their Jap-noise equivalents with the Kraut-rock noodlings of Faust.

Stanley – Clobbered – Review

November 1, 1995

The sort of band that badly Xeroxed cut-and-paste ‘zines love to ramble on about. Their sound is too Seattle to be sludge-punk, but too Chicago to be grunge.

Neurosis – at Mama Kin – Review

November 1, 1995

Warzone percussion and lower-register instrumentation. Synth-squeal noise and over-stressed vocal chords. Iconographic images projected onstage.

La Gritona – with Bloodletter, Neurosis at Mama Kin – Review

November 1, 1995

La Gritona are one of Boston’s few good bands, easily levitating over the usual indie swill and three-chord power-pop pablum. Too bad this was their last show.

Einsturzende Neubauten – Halber Mensch – Review

September 1, 1995

Drawings of Patient O.T. was named after the artwork of a schizophrenic in a mental asylum. Halber Mensch was more conceptual, using structure and randomness.

Einsturzende Neubauten – Drawings of Patient O.T. – Review

September 1, 1995

Drawings of Patient O.T. was named after the artwork of a schizophrenic in a mental asylum. Halber Mensch was more conceptual, using structure and randomness.