Lollipop Magazine

The Posies – Success – Review

March 1, 1998

They have crawled back to their childhood home (their original label) to gasp out a final course of high-quality pop songs, and then expire.

Congo Norvell – Abnormals Anonymous – Interview

March 1, 1998

An interview with Kid Congo Powers and Sally Norvell

The Vibrators – We Vibrate – Review

December 1, 1997

“Baby Baby” and “London Girls,” from this pseudo-greatest hits collection, are straightforward, unabashed love songs, more Dave Clark Five than Buzzcocks.

Television Personalities – They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles – Review

December 1, 1997

A reissue of a nostalgia act, which makes it double-retro, alongside Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” video and the impending big-screen re-release of Grease.

Pastels – Up For a Bit with… – Review

December 1, 1997

One of the most beloved indie bands of our era, their early singles created the template that other bands and entire labels (like K) would take for their own.

Lollipop – Sucked In, Blown Out – Review

December 1, 1997

On the world-renowned Amphetamine Reptile label, there’s a demented, hellbent-for-pleather garage-punk quartet, and their name happens to be the same as ours.

Lambchop – Thriller – Review

December 1, 1997

Thriller removes the assembly-line slickness and cloying corn that have worn this most American of musics down to a palatable gruel. Modest, sincere, poetic.

Jonathan Fire*Eater – Wolf Songs for Lambs – Review

December 1, 1997

A full-on adolescent-cinematic sound that enthralls and seduces while it plays but falls apart completely once analyzed. Not, in and of itself, a bad thing.

Fuck – Pardon My French – Review

December 1, 1997

Full of folky strums, fragile vocals, and a fleet-fingered sense of construction that seems almost too casual until you realize how well it holds together.

Wire – Coatings – Review

December 1, 1997

Fair-weather fans have no need for different takes on the same material, completists have it already, and ’70s Wire-heads have no use for this period, period.