Sheril Stanford – Page 5 – Lollipop Magazine

Fishbone – Chim Chim’s Badass Revenge – Review

September 1, 1996

Fishbone is known for leaving no musical stone unturned, blending ska, punk, funk, blues, and jazz elements into a simmering sonic goulash.

Foxfire Soundtrack – Review

September 1, 1996

Like most compilation discs, the Foxfire soundtrack has some gems and some duds, some shining stars and some cosmic debris.

Tripl3fast Action – Broadcaster – Review

September 1, 1996

In the post-Nirvana world we live in, I suppose there’s some comfort in knowing that if we need an imitation-Kurt fix, one is readily available.

Scarce – Deadsexy – Review

September 1, 1996

The disc captures the essence of the band’s live shows; it’s filled with high velocity, bold, ruggedly powerful tunes packed with musical detail.

Poundcake – Aloha Via Satellite – Review

September 1, 1996

This full-length features hook-filled tunes that could easily fall into the force-fed commercial radio overdose bin that makes a band really successful.

Greetings from Planet Girl – at the Charlestown Working Theatre – Review

September 1, 1996

The raucous and randy conclusion, “Bite This,” was a chorus-line set to Calypso music, with costumes graphically depicting the “devouring woman” archetype.

Quintaine Americana – Needles – Interview

August 1, 1996

An interview with guitarist Robert Earl Dixon, bassist Marc Schleicher, and drummer Jason King

Fred Schneider – At the Paradise – Review

June 1, 1996

Schneider’s new project is everything good: Punky, surfy, snarly, edgy, aggressive ripping stuff – injected with a serious sense of fun. It’s not the B-52’s.

Frank Black – with Jonny Polonsky at the Paradise – Review

June 1, 1996

The crowd pogoed and surfed and thrashed to Black’s amazing blend of melodic hooks, sonic vision, and pure creative weirdness.

Syd Straw – War and Peace – Review

June 1, 1996

After seven years of gathering musical fodder, Syd Straw is back; her songwriting skills and gutsy, yet ethereal, voice as strong as ever.