Nik Rainey | Lollipop Magazine

Stereolab – Aluminum Tunes (Switched On, Volume 3) – Review

January 1, 1999

At the rate Stereolab pumps out these rarities collections, one has to wonder whether the Marx-Moogs-and-magic collective allows themselves any sleep.

Bauhaus – Crackle – Review

January 1, 1999

Far from being bleak and forbidding, Bauhaus was inclusive, their cold blood a warm sacrament for the scrabbling weevils crawling over the teenage underbelly.

Silver Jews – American Water – Review

January 1, 1999

About halfway through American Water, the music begins to warm to the words’ expansive wit and well-tempered calibration.

Robert Pollard – Waved Out – Review

January 1, 1999

Truth is, as reflexively brilliant and endlessly prolific as Pollard remains, for a guy that puts out as much as he does, he’s the biggest rocktease around.

Morrissey – My Early Burglary Years – Review

January 1, 1999

How much longer will his dwindling cult put up with this cynical reconfiguration of songs that all of them already purchased before the light finally goes out?

Kahimi Karie – Review

January 1, 1999

A little retro, a little neo (space-age bossa nova lounge trip-pop, for those keeping score), and contributions from many one-named sound hybridizers.

Jimi Hendrix Experience – BBC Sessions – Review

January 1, 1999

Should you kiss the sky on your first date? How did a Black guy from Seattle track down the only two pale English guys with higher, kinkier hair than himself?

Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company – Live at Winterland ’68 – Review

January 1, 1999

Vulnerability crossed with a paint-peeling wail, a rare distaff stone on the Texan misfit trail. This kinda stuff’s in short supply today.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – BBC Sessions – Review

January 1, 1999

It’s the mark of a truly seminal artist that, even thirty years after his death, you discover something new with every new vault-scraping from the archives.

Frank Black and the Catholics – Interview

January 1, 1999

An interview with Frank Black