Lollipop Magazine

Mental Shrapnel: Three Words You Never Want To Hear Together – Column

November 17, 2006

Lollipop has a long history of making fun of stupid people, stupid trends, over-hyped movies, TV shows, bands, and anything else we see.

Angel: Season 5 – Review

April 28, 2006

Angel is a hero who used to be evil, who tries to redeem himself by fighting evil, including within himself. Darker and more serious than Buffy ever was.

The Juan Maclean – Less Than Human – Review

December 9, 2005

Juan Maclean was the guitarist for Six Finger Satellite. Less Than Human is produced by James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy, aka DFA, underground dance legends. A couple tracks feature vocals by Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem. By all accounts, it should be one monster of an album. So what happened?

Boyd Rice/NON – Terra Incognita: Ambient Works 1975 – Present – Review

January 10, 2005

Boyd Rice has been destroying music since the mid-’70s. Like Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, he used homebuilt or modified instruments to create sounds.

Young Sexy Assassins – May Day in the Garden of Memories – Review

March 15, 2004

Noisy rock that’s dissonant and sporadic, treading the grey areas between indie, hardcore, and art-rock. But this is by no means a bad thing, and there’s no question that the lads are very good at what they do.

Tyondai Braxton – Rise, Rise, Rise – Review

March 15, 2004

Tyondai Braxton has obviously escaped from the same refugee camp (as Parts & Labor), as evidenced by “Stand There,” the best song Parts & Labor never wrote and probably the highlight of the whole disc.

Tunnel of Love – Rock ‘N Roll Bitches – Review

March 15, 2004

They don’t play their instruments, they beat on them. The vocals are just different degrees of screaming. There are no solos, just a three-piece drum set and distorted, open chords.

Parts & Labor – Tyondai Braxton – Rise, Rise, Rise – Review

March 15, 2004

A Brooklyn three-piece. Most other reviewers have compared them to other art-rock bands, but those sorts of comparisons imply that they’re some sort of rip-off, which is patently false.

The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black – with Spore at The Rat – Review

October 1, 1994

A glam band of the sort rarely seen since the New York Dolls; a smorgasbord of outrageousness put to catchy, if not overly memorable, pre-punk rock.

Spore – with The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black at The Rat – Review

October 1, 1994

The band seemed to be merely covering their songs rather than playing them. But Spore is STILL one of Boston’s finest, even at their worst.