Lollipop Magazine

Lunachicks – at The Rat – Review

September 1, 1995

Destroyed baby-doll outfits and disarray. Good, sloppy, old-fashioned punk. They tore through songs with energy that the CD just can’t convey.

X-Cops – at Mama Kin – Review

July 1, 1995

They’re not GWAR. They seem like they don’t wanna be. So relax a little, okay? Although the show was enlightening, it wasn’t perfect.

Swank- with Combine, Heretix (last show) at the Rat – Review

July 1, 1995

Maybe I’m tired of power trios, or I’m suspicious of bands who write letters to ‘zines complaining of sexism and then make jokes about their hairdressers on stage.

Heretix – (last show) with Combine, Swank at the Rat – Review

July 1, 1995

I had to leave before the Heretix, being too drunk for a funeral.

Combine – with Swank, Heretix (last show) at the Rat – Review

July 1, 1995

Combine got me into the show. Not bad, but they try too hard to be complex; too many time changes and not enough riffs.

Mate, Spawn, And Die – Fiction

February 1, 1995

Valentine’s Day is mating season, a thinly-veiled lie that hides the urge to copulate. A mating ritual passed down through the ages like a genetic disease.

Cop Shoot Cop – with Bile at The Middle East Cafe – Review

November 1, 1994

Their sound does nothing but build with each passing moment, like a boa constrictor squeezing your intestines out. They played for close to two hours.

Bile – with Cop Shoot Cop at The Middle East Cafe – Review

November 1, 1994

That hybrid of industrial and metal that’s become so popular these days. They’re good at it, but the songs did seem to blend into each other after a while.