Krista Handfield | Lollipop Magazine

Social Distortion – White Light, White Heat, White Trash – Interview

April 1, 1997

An interview with guitarist and founding member Dennis Danell

Frank Black – with Jonny Polonsky at the Paradise – Review

June 1, 1996

The crowd pogoed and surfed and thrashed to Black’s amazing blend of melodic hooks, sonic vision, and pure creative weirdness.

Jonny Polonsky – with Frank Black at the Paradise – Review

May 1, 1996

Polonsky makes power pop the way it ought to be, I thought – loud, hard, slightly intimidating, but at the same time, slightly nuts.

Bentmen – with Keith Bownice, Turbo Tom at Mama Kin – Review

March 1, 1996

The music becomes a programmatic underscore to their orgy of light, color, costumes, confetti, and charisma.

Battalion of Saints – with The Meatmen at Local 186 – Review

November 1, 1995

There was a riot. Now the club isn’t booking shows. Thanks a lot guys.

Social Distortion – with The Bouncing Souls at T.T. the Bears – Review

July 1, 1995

A huge wall of guitars roaring, simply, loudly and majestically, over which the patented drone vocal was laid. They’re punk, and not getting watered down.