Sunday, January 1 1995
Jessica Simpson: Irresistible
The ‘90s ended in a blur of blonde. Cute young singers with golden locks and terrible lyrics filled the airwaves and battled for superstardom. At…
Sunny Day Real Estate: The Rising Tide
Before I get to The Rising Tide, Sunny Day Real Estate’s new release, let me set the stage. From the beginning SDR was cloaked in…
Maggie Sansone: A Traveler’s Dream
Maggie Sansone is the founder and current owner of Maggie’s Music, but she’s also the first musician on the label. She is widely known for…
Sting: Brand New Day
Since his first solo effort, The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in 1985, Sting has been pumping out polished pop for 15 years. Many…
Sister Sonny: Lovesongs
Everyone writes love songs. No one knows what popular music will sound like 30 years from now, but anyone can figure out what its dominant…
Sunday Flood: Advisory
Wow, I listened to Sunday Flood’s Advisory and I truly thought the world was going to end! I mean, really, could everything be, like, that…
Steely Dan: The Royal Scam/Aja
Steely Dan Aja(MCA) by Mark Zeltner steelydan-aja-royal.jpg First it was the Eagles. Then it was Fleetwood Mac. Now Steely Dan, the most enigmatic of seventies…
The Shiv: Short Order Crook
The combination of highly volatile hydrogen gas and a tiny electrical spark was all it took to create the massive explosion that brought the mighty…
Otis Spann: Best of the Vanguard Years
Unlike his label-mate and sometime collaborator, James Cotton, Otis Spann’s output does not stretch evenly into his later years. That may not be a fair…
Stryke: Staying In: A Journey Inwards
Florida-based techno DJ Greg “Stryke” Chin takes a break from the dance floor and gets mellow with Staying In, a blend of ambient, trip-hop, breaks,…
Sigur Rós: Agætis Byrjun
Critics don’t quite know what to say about Sigur Rós. Those who like them either go over the top with praise, calling them the best…
Savath and Savalas: Folk Songs for Trains, Trees and Honey
I lived in Japan for a little over three years. My travels were always by train. I would sit in the cramped confines of one…
Saga: Face á Face
First things first: Face á Face isn’t a new offering from eighties rock band Saga. If you’re a fan of that Saga and you buy…
Splitsville, Repeater; The Minders, Hooray For Tuesday
The Minders Hooray For Tuesday(Elephant 6/spinART) by Sarah ZupkoPopMatters Editor & Publisher Two of the year’s more important pop releases come from labels that seldom…
Snowboy: Afro Cuban Jazz
The Sunday Sessions at the Hi-Hat in North London have a special place in English club culture. Every week some of the best dancers on…
Billy Swan: Like Elvis Used to Do
According to the liner notes, Swan has a songwriting (and producing) career that spans almost 30 years, including the country smash hits “I Can Help,”…
Janek Schaefer: Above Buildings
In 1998, London-based Janek Schaefer broke onto the electronic music scene after he was paired with Pan American on Fat Cat’s Splinter Series of Split…
Sorma: Mirage of the East
“Without a coordinator they took portable DAT recorders and went to the mountains of India, the prairie of Mongoli and villages in Bali. They made…
Elliott Smith: Figure 8
Mr. Smith was going to have a very tough time even matching the overall quality of his last release, XO, so I approached the listening…
Sense Field
Nobody plays emo anymore. The Promise Ring have given it up for pop songs. The Get Up Kids are too obsessed with Weezer and now…
