Scott Hefflon – Page 33 – Lollipop Magazine

Strung Out – Agents of The Underground – Review

April 1, 2010

While many ’90s pop punk bands went acoustic, Strung Out still layer the harmonies thick, play fast and tight, and the breakdowns come right on time.

Special Ops – Through the Heart of the Infidel – Review

April 1, 2010

There’s Rob Zombie’s stomp and Manson’s tortured groan and System of a Down’s Middle Eastern-tinged yowl, and more comparisons than I can rattle off.

New Zero God – Fun Is A Four Letter Word – Review

April 1, 2010

Greek Gothic veterans team up to make a dark, catchy debut similar to the Gothic punk bands in the UK in the late ’70s and ’80s: The Damned, Bauhaus, etc.

Nathen Maxwell – White Rabbit – Review

April 1, 2010

The bassist for Celtic rockers Flogging Molly is a solid singer and songwriter. Admittedly more reggae and quietly singer/songwritery than many would expect.

Guilty As Sin – Led to the Slaughter – Review

April 1, 2010

That’s not an instrumental intro (like the killer “Dark Intentions” opening The Haunted Made Me Do It), this is a three-piece instrumental thrash metal band.

Arbogast – Certainties and Doubts – Review

April 1, 2010

The parts gel together nicely, and there are riffs to remember, melodies to hum along with, and dirty beats to make your fingers snap.

The Casualties – We Are All We Have – Review

March 1, 2010

Hardcore punk/street punk, gruff and shredded-vocaled, rampaging and political. Anthemic hoo-ra, produced by Bill and Jason at The Blasting Room.

Arriver – Simon Mann – Review

January 1, 2010

This Chicago band holler and roar, flipflopping between math metal skitter and roarcore pummel, with atonal this placed here and breakdown buggery placed there.

Big D and the Kid’s Table – Fluent in Stroll – Review

January 1, 2010

A genre-jumpin’ band with horns and hop. It’s all for the good of the party music. Most is finger-snapping butt-wiggle so the girls can dance the night away.

This Moment In Black History – Public Square – Review

January 1, 2010

There’s vintage-sounding psychedelia as well as the kinda fuzzy garage grr that makes The White Stripes sound as polished and gutsy as Def Leppard.