Lollipop Magazine

Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth – Review

June 13, 2005

The best tracks on With Teeth are the slow, and (relatively) quiet ones. Not to say that the harder ones don’t kick ass, they just seem more pushbutton.

Marilyn Manson – The Golden Age of Grotesque – Review

November 5, 2003

The Golden Age of Grotesque is cloaked as an electro-metal reminiscence of the roaring ’20s, America’s first counter-cultural movement of the Twentieth Century.

Nine Inch Nails – And All That Could Have Been: Live – Review

July 5, 2002

Pure sonic ear candy aside, the tormented howls and quivering-with-hate whispers (yeah, OK, and the gut-wrenching yearning) really hits home.

Nine Inch Nails – And All That Could Have Been: Still – Review

July 5, 2002

Still isn’t supposed to rock your shit. It’s supposed to be introspective and revealing.

Nine Inch Nails – Things Falling Apart – Review

June 3, 2001

For those of you who thought that The Fragile was too long, too complex, with not enough actual songs going on, this is for you.

Plaid – Rest Proof Clockwork – Review

January 1, 2000

Elements of electro & Moog thrown into a blend of James Brown & Funkadelic, sorta like Devo, Kraftwerk & Can get together & go off on an old-school soul-bender.

Nine Inch Nails- The Fragile – Review

January 1, 2000

The Fragile is one long, often mundane slog through butt-ugly versions of Trent’s four or five edgy, psychotic trademark maneuvers.

Nine Inch Nails- The Fragile – Review

January 1, 2000

If Mr. Reznor had released a 10 song CD with the best songs from these sessions, I would be singing its praise. The diamonds are buried pretty deep in shit.

Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile – Review

January 1, 2000

Trent’s back to find his guitar sounds co-opted, his beats carjacked, and his lyrics… well, he got to keep something. Only thing is, they got it all wrong.

Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile – Review

January 1, 2000

I have no problem with the whisper-to-a-scream thing, but it won’t work if you don’t have Nirvana’s tunes or Black Sabbath’s riffs, and The Fragile has neither.