Lollipop Magazine

Ann Beretta – To All Our Fallen Heroes – Review

April 1, 2000

All of the gruff, none of the annoying snarl. Plus, they’re more melodic and willing to use different styles to get that country-music-desperation across.

American Steel – Rogue’s March – Review

April 1, 2000

There’s finally an American answer to Leatherface. All praise American Steel, the most blisteringly balls-out emotional punk band since Crimpshrine.

Cleveland Bound Death Sentence – Review

January 1, 2000

This EP compiles 7″s and comp tracks, and is ugly and pure enough to be called punk without any qualifiers. Fourteen songs in 18 minutes. You do the math.

The Mopes – Accident Waiting to Happen – Review

January 1, 2000

The all-star combo of some of the best pop punk bands of the ’90s. They were punks when it was uncool to be punks, and that’s what makes ’em so cool.

Screeching Weasel – Emo – Review

September 1, 1999

Unlike Bark Like A Dog, which I seem to remember was slick and, well, Fat, Emo is gritty and rough and kinda sloppy and honest.

Four on the Floor – Review

September 1, 1999

Panic Button pulls together four bands (Screeching Weasel, Moral Crux, Teen Idols and Enemy You) for four tracks apiece, totaling a scant 32 minutes.

The Donnas – Get Skintight – Review

September 1, 1999

The Donnas shine when they’re singing songs about having fun with their friends, hanging out, meeting guys, and eating. Not necessarily in that order.

The Lillingtons – Death by Television – Review

June 1, 1999

The Lillingtons combine simple, droning Ramones guitarwork with Misfitesque topics and a vocal inflection that sounds frighteningly like A-Ha.

Dr. Frank – Show Business is My Life – Review

June 1, 1999

Mr. T Experience is credited by some as the founders of the East Bay pop-punk sound, and Dr. Frank is the chief songwriter/vocalist for MTX.

Groovie Ghoulies – Fun in the Dark – Review

June 1, 1999

They play simple riffs, are obsessed with graveyards, aliens, and all kinds of ghouls, witches, and zombies, and yet theirs is the CD you wanna hear again.