Lollipop Magazine

Firewater – The Man On The Burning Tightrope – Review

October 22, 2003

Seven years down the line, Tod A is still quick with one-liners jammed into drunken European wedding band music. Difference this time? A circus theme.

Robert Belfour – Pushin’ My Luck – Review

October 1, 2003

Country blues, acoustic guitar, sedate mutterings & rarely a standard 12-bar blues in sight. No SRV/Skynard/white boy bar band massacre of a pentatonic scale.

R.L. Burnside – First Recordings – Review

October 1, 2003

He’s got an attitude the size of a Mac truck, and a personality with the power to knock you down. This is the raw element, where it all began, the fountainhead.

Joe Callicott – Ain’t A Gonna Lie To You – Review

October 1, 2003

Joe Callicott isn’t the gritty Delta-style blues guy you would expect. His is a light, smooth style, not so much polished as greased.

Culper Ring – 355 – Review

September 24, 2003

Kinda like Black Tape For A Blue Girl meets Coil. But wimpier. No song names, no drums, just guitar, violin, vox & sounds. Pretentious as all hell.

Pigface – Easy Listening… – Review

September 11, 2003

Easy Listening rolls through more styles of music than collaborators (En Esch, Groovie Mann, Chris Connelly, Chris Vrenna, Keith Levine, Penn Jillette, etc.).

Fierce Tibetan Gods Forbidden Frequencies – Review

September 3, 2003

It’s been a few years since Delirium refined the trip-pop flag Enigma first flew in 19-blabla. And now, Fierce Tibetan Gods have taken up the helm.

A.R.E. Weapons – Review

August 16, 2003

These guys are “not” electroclash. So they say. Drum machines, keyboard, guitar, snotty vocals, NYC. You make the call.

Gorillaz – Phase One: Celebrity Takedown – Review

July 23, 2003

A side project from Tank Girl & Blur, cycled though the ears of Dan the Automator, created specifically in response to the “manufactured” pop band phenomenon.

DIY or Die: Burn This DVD – Review

July 23, 2003

Directed in the style of a high school senior’s video project, DIY or Die is a self-congratulatory pat on the back for the indie movement.