Mark Phinney | Lollipop Magazine

American Buffalo – Review

October 1, 1996

Ethics, honor, responsibility, and hunger. These are the elements that float American Buffalo, one of Mamet’s more popular productions.

Coyote Shivers – Review

October 1, 1996

Coyote Shivers could quite possibly be Thunders reborn: The glitter glam-slam attitude and outfits and the smarmy sneer, at once inviting and dangerous.

Death Scenes – Review

October 1, 1996

Presented in eerie black and white with the original hand-scrawled descriptions beneath them, the majority of these photos are very terrifying.

The Queers – Don’t Back Down – Interview

October 1, 1996

An interview with bassist B-Face

8 Ball Shifter – Hanson – Interview

October 1, 1996

An interview with Ian Adams

The Fan – Review

October 1, 1996

The Fan is typical big-budget, glossy, action/suspense given a little extra grit beneath the polish by a top-flight cast and crew.

Man… Or Astroman? – Sounds of Tomorrow – Review

September 1, 1996

Posing as a four-song EP, this is an interplanetary attempt to suck the brainwaves out of our skulls and send them hurtling through space and time.

Girl Trouble – “The Track” / “Scorpio 9” – Review

September 1, 1996

With fast-track slides and broken glass harmonies, they carefully, yet recklessly, blend danger and longing for love into an in-your-face tune.

The Satans – Satans Surf – Review

September 1, 1996

The Satans were a high school surf band out of Oregon in the early ’60s with a sense of what made surf new and different, and, for the time, even dangerous.

The Royal Crowns – Fireball Stomp – Review

September 1, 1996

This new vinyl from The Royal Crowns is a slick-fueled ass-shaker full of trademark Kendall lyrics and drag race riffs to burn down any rockabilly house party.