Lollipop Magazine

Thingmaker – Review

September 20, 2004

NRA and New Bomb Turks lead the punk pack in visceral throwback punk. The Wildhearts power up a Cheap Trick/Bay City Rollers fusion.

New Bomb Turks – Switchblade Tongues and Butterknife Brains – Review

February 16, 2004

Ostensibly an odds’n’sods collection, this curiously-titled release is packed with enough good material that it could’ve passed as a “great lost album.”

Smash Up Derby – Review

October 15, 2003

A great comp for those who wanna learn about this stuff, and it’s got some cool unreleased stuff, all for a list price of two Rolling Rocks.

New Bomb Turks – The Night Before the Day the Earth Stood Still – Review

January 3, 2003

This should’ve followed Scared Straight. The hollowed-out three-chord punkers that dominated the last two albums are replaced by well-crafted rock songs.

How We Rock – Review

January 3, 2003

This comp nails it. Unlike Now That’s What I Call Shitty Music: Volume Four Billion, How We Rock compiles 19 hotshots and whatnots both trendy and “classic.”

New Bomb Turks – Spanish Fly By Night – Interview

May 31, 2002

An interview with Eric Davidson, Matt Reber, Jim Reber, and Sam Brown

Sarre-Chasm – You Can’t Fire Me… – Column

September 1, 2000

I’m goddamned sick and tired of battlin’ writer’s block to once again arrive at a frustrated first step, y’know, leave me alone and let me go back to bed. I say that every issue, and now I quit.

New Bomb Turks – Nightmare Scenario – Review

September 1, 2000

They’re one of the great rock bands workin’ these days, straight up, record-wise as well as live.

Punk-O-Rama – 5 – Review

September 1, 2000

A lotta punk inspires me to smash jewel cases, not the state, so when I wanna relisten to/go-get-the-latest by some of these bands, that says a lot.

Punk-o-Rama 4 – Review

September 1, 1999