Lollipop Magazine

Erik Larson – The Resounding – Review

August 16, 2003

Alabama Thunderpussy’s Erik Larson’s The Resounding is exactly what a solo album should be: Ideas and emotions which don’t fit what the main band is doing.

Tummler – Early Man – Review

May 30, 2003

I like a head trauma caused by excessive blows from the granite doom bludgeon as much as the next, but I don’t need a whole album of it. Neither does Tummler.

Sucking the ’70s – Review

January 3, 2003

Sucking the ’70s succeeds where so many before have failed because the concept encapsulates such a large chunk of space and encourages bands to take chances.

Los Natas – Corsario Negro – Review

September 20, 2002

More a collection of soundscapes than songs; a group of sound paintings done with the same brush Kyuss used for the noodlier parts of Sky Valley.

Halfway to Gone – Second Season – Review

July 12, 2002

Southern by way of New Jersey (and by the grace of God), Halfway To Gone are ‘roid-driven power-trio crossing of Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

The Glasspack – Powderkeg – Review

June 14, 2002

Rock and roll bands sing about drugs. The Glasspack sing about drugs. The Glasspack says “Fuck the system.”

Morsel – Para Siempre – Review

March 22, 2002

A tasty melange of apres Sonic Youth, post-rock, Midwestern art drill which has absorbed the potential for shifting nervous rikky-ticky rhythm.

Porn (The Men of) – Experiments in Feedback – Review

March 15, 2002

Heavy, noisy, experimental. Those are the three words you’re bound to hear whenever this CD is mentioned.

Novadriver – Void – Review

February 22, 2002

Stomping early-’70s-flavored body-odor rock with terrific vocals, and a tornado of pulverizing psychedelic guitars awash in wah-wah.

Halfway To Gone – High Five – Review

February 22, 2002

Formed by the ex-lead singer of NJ’s Solarized, Halfway to Gone are a brutal, more concise deployment of many of the same rockist elements.