Lollipop Magazine

Switchblade Symphony – Bread and Jam for Frances – Review

November 1, 1997

“It’s a lot better produced, and stuff like ‘Situation #58,’ even though it’s Goth by proxy, is more like Tricky than anything else.”

The Dandy Warhols – Come Down – Interview

November 1, 1997

An interview with Courtney Taylor

Pansy Division – More Lovin’ From Our Oven – Interview

November 1, 1997

An interview with Jon Ginoli

Liquor Lecture – Hangovers – Column

November 1, 1997

There are some who claim that they have never had a hangover. To them I say, you have never had the full drinking experience. Then I tell them to fuck off.

Matera – Same Here – Review

October 1, 1997

What do you expect from the ex-drummer of Napalm Death but something that completely fucks with your head and skews your perception of music?

Lionrock – An Instinct for Detection – Review

October 1, 1997

An easy-going funk proposition, with a rational MC over the top, utterly coherent, chanting about the state of the world as the beats slowly get stoned.

Shine – Review

October 1, 1997

Nowhere has the concept of The Zone been so brilliantly portrayed as in the performance of Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto in Shine.

Liquor Lecture – Column

October 1, 1997

Sometimes it all becomes too refined. Don’t you want to have a cheap, shitty, gutter brew? Don’t you want to relish the pain it takes to swallow Popov vodka?

Contact – Review

October 1, 1997

When all is said and done, Contact isn’t about aliens; it’s about faith, a neo-new age treatise on religion.

Garbage Pail – Column

October 1, 1997

“I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.”