Nik Rainey – Page 17 – Lollipop Magazine

Shonen Knife – Brand New Knife – Interview

May 1, 1997

An interview with bassist Michie Nakatani

The Folk Implosion – Dare to be Surprised – Review

May 1, 1997

It’s pretty keen stuff, too, stuffed to bursting with pop ideas and enough smarts not to dwell on any of them for too long.

Royal Trux – Sweet Sixteen – Interview

May 1, 1997

An (attempted) interview with vocalist Jennifer Herrema

Tele:Funken/ FSA – Distant Station – Review

May 1, 1997

The performers have come from diverse areas of the globe and take it in turns to tell their wordless tales.

Suede – Coming Up – Review

May 1, 1997

“We kept everything stripped-down; we had a rule that there’d be no more than eight sounds going at any given time. It’s more basic, not so precious.”

Panasonic – Kulma – Review

May 1, 1997

Some latecomers from Finland, Panasonic, came next, drawing out thin filaments of sound and laying them atop one another to writhe and squirm.

Nick Cave – The Boatman’s Call – Review

May 1, 1997

Cave’s love is far from wine and roses. He betrays the inescapability of his joy’s decay, undercutting an idyllic moment with “people just ain’t no good.”

King Black Acid and the Womb Star Orchestra – Sunlit – Review

May 1, 1997

Three songs in sixty minutes, stretching out languidly into the infinite without succumbing to Phishy-smelling jam tendencies or circumambient snoozatoria.

John Fahey – City of Refuge – Review

May 1, 1997

A quiet revolution filtered through open ears – there was classical, slide blues scrapings, and the sounds of his louder descendents made over into ambience.

Hovercraft – Akathisia – Review

May 1, 1997

If those that preceded them relied on divine motionlessness, Hovercraft was all about momentum, driving onward and upward to a point that never arrives.