Sub Pop Records – Page 8 – Lollipop Magazine

Mark Lanegan- I’ll Take Care of You – Review

January 1, 2000

His songs are folk ballads in the classic sense, but they refuse to wallow in the “woe is me” solipsism that makes most modern folk music the bore that it is.

Love as Laughter- Destination 2000 – Review

January 1, 2000

It doesn’t rock. It screams. It doesn’t roll. It steamrolls. What’s more, it has a message for the youth of America. “Stay Out of Jail,” a raucous marvel.

The Hellacopters – Grande Rock – Review

September 1, 1999

Grande Rock’s got all that good stuff, as well as “Kick Out the Jams” near-misses (“Action De Grace”) and a rhythm section to keep the sucker movin’.

Sebadoh – The Sebadoh – Review

April 1, 1999

Fear not, sensitive males and the females who break up with them, Barlow’s still cranking out the most sincere nice-guy rock in the land.

The Murder City Devils – Empty Bottles Broken Hearts – Review

January 1, 1999

MCD fills Empty Bottles with more high-octane punk intoxicants than can be legally sold in the Bible Belt on Sundays.

St. Etienne – Good Humor – Review

January 1, 1999

This LP is virtually an aural ice sculpture. Not that it sounds inhuman, exactly – it’s coolly synthesized, but not coldly synthetic.

Six Finger Satellite – Law of Ruins – Review

January 1, 1999

6FS uses drum machines, Moogs, Vocoders, and synth washes. But all the quirky technical trickery culminates in a sound that is the very essence of grunge.

The Jesus & Mary Chain – Munki – Interview

November 1, 1998

An interview with Jim Reid

Eric Matthews – The Lateness of the Hour – Review

December 1, 1997

An uncloseted romanticist who packs more mature pop sensibility into a single measure than an entire posse of fretboard-throttlers could manage in a lifetime.

Pigeonhed – The Full Sentence – Review

May 1, 1997

The gentlemen whip up several soul-funk concoctions and toss in some gospel-tinge and six-string sludge, but mostly, though, this throbs with sex electronica.