Lollipop Magazine

Col. Knowledge – Fall In Love All Over Again – Review

May 26, 2005

’60s-inspired garage pop with organ flourishes and falsetto harmonies.

Champion – Time Slips Away – Review

May 26, 2005

Just another straight-edge hardcore band. This one from Seattle. This is a combination of a couple EPs from 2002 and 2003, that’re outta print.

Blue Monday – Rewritten – Review

May 26, 2005

From Vancouver, BC, mixing early ’80s hardcore with mid-’90s youth crew group shouts of unity. Straight-forward and stripped down hardcore.

Bleed The Dream – Built By Blood – Review

May 26, 2005

New school hard rock from Southern California. Like Avenged Sevenfold, powerful clean singing sprinkled with hardcore roar.

Hate Eternal – I Monarch – Review

May 26, 2005

Pretty much what you expect from them: Deep-vocal death, ripping guitars, and blastbeatting ’til the cows come home.

Bane – The Note – Review

May 26, 2005

I’ve never cared much for most of Bane’s songs, but they sometimes surprise me. Like the end of “Swan Song,” the part with the group shouts and a vocal cameo.

Torche – Review

May 26, 2005

This might have teeth. Ex-members of Floor and Cavity who wanna write pop tunes but also love Sabbath and Melvins fuzz and thunder.

This Microwave World – Red States – Review

May 26, 2005

Unfairly pegged as god-awful electroclash because they had a drum machine. Now they have a live drummer. Now they’re bad new wave-obsessed indie rock.

The Templars – Clockwork Orange Horrorshow – Review

May 26, 2005

A reissue of a 1995 7″ with a bonus track. While this NYC band is well-respected in the Oi world, this one really sounds like shit.

The Stoneage Hearts – Guilty As Sin – Review

May 26, 2005

Melbourne garage fuzz.