Tim Den – Page 89 – Lollipop Magazine

My Spacecoaster – Heartstrings – Review

June 3, 2001

A healthy dose of pondering, slow numbers, and Braid-style chord structures turn what might’ve been just another Pedro The Lion clone into a crossover.

Mindrage – Nailed Promise – Split – Review

June 3, 2001

Mindrage chooses to blast loudly most of the time, but beneath all the Satan disses being barked, there’re some interesting guitar chords and such.

Manic Street Preachers – Know Your Enemy – Review

June 3, 2001

Know Your Enemy is a mixture of the band’s early crunch and later pop, a balance that’s sure to please any fan.

Macabre – Dahmer – Review

June 3, 2001

So brutal, but also so funny… Sometimes the distortion’s so heavy and the pace so breakneck, you forget that music this unrelenting can have a lighter side.

Lovelight Shine – Makes Out – Review

June 3, 2001

3/4ths of Jejune are back in a cock rock band. Maybe years in an emo band with a girl was too much?

Living Sacrifice – The Hammering Process – Review

June 3, 2001

Living Sacrifice was the first Christian death metal band I ever heard. They’ve survived by adapting much the same way others have: by going “groove-oriented.”

Leatherface – The Last – Review

June 3, 2001

Leatherface’s most daring record (also their shortest, and their last before breaking up for six years) gets a deserved rebirth, and I’ve got it on repeat.

Kind of Like Spitting – One Hundred Dollar Room – Review

June 3, 2001

Lo-fi, sad, acoustic indie ballads that will win over college kids, as well as the older/noisier post-grads who flock to Built To Spill and Modest Mouse shows.

Ink And Dagger – Review

June 3, 2001

I don’t “love” or “hate” psychedelic pseudo-cock rock tinged with useless “weird sounds.” I just really couldn’t care less.

Grade – The Embarrassing Beginning – Review

June 2, 2001

Grade, in all of its predictable sing-scream/loud-soft/we-can’t-play-anything-other-than-emo-chords, has opened up its high school photo album for all to see.