Sunday, January 1 1995
Will Smith: Willennium
I love Lil’ Kim, but I do wonder what she’s doing on Will Smith’s unbashfully titled Willennium. Besides getting paid, I mean. The best I…
Shooter, ...And Your Point?
Here’s something I bet you haven’t heard before: A 4-piece modern rock combo with an disenchanted female singer who makes flippant pop culture references as…
Soulhat: Experiment on a Flat Plane
Soulhat is similar to Walter E. Kurtz, the insane army colonel who was the subject of the film Apocalypse Now. Of Kurtz it was said,…
Ken Sharp: Happy Accidents
There was a time when my Mom’s fluorescent green plastic Magnavox played all day in the kitchen. I remember songs like “Hot Child in the…
Smoking Popes: Live
Crooning like The Moz is one thing, but contrasting a raging punk-pop beat against it made the Popes truly unique. With brothers Matt and Eli…
6X: Kung-Pow! | PopMatters Music Review
It’s getting hard to find really great melodic rock ‘n’ roll bands these days. Often, bands in said genre can be cheesy, or fail to…
Stone Temple Pilots, No 4
Stone Temple Pilots have endured a gargantuan amount of criticism in their time, both good and bad, fair and unfair. They’ve been heralded as one…
Soltero: Science Will Figure You Out
As the name might suggest (Spanish for “single”), Soltero definitely feels like a one-man project. Despite the list of musicians that played on Science Will…
Slowcoach: New Strategies Are Necessary, This Is Not Solid Ground
The title to California trio Slowcoach’s debut New Strategies Are Necessary, This Is Not Solid Ground sounds like it’s meant to be a warning post,…
SIM_01: Radiophonic Oddity
In this age of sophisticated mixing software and synthesizers with over a thousand different pre-programmed beats and sounds, it may seem like any idiot can…
Oumou Sangare: Ko Sira
Sangare performs Wassoulou music that originates from the southwestern region of Mali. Wassoulou was traditionally performed with percussion such as the djembe, the soku-a horse-hair…
Will Roy Sanders: The Last Living Bluesman
Claiming to be the last living bluesman is a little much, but Will Roy Sanders is definitely one of the last of his kind. His…
Snailhouse: Fine
Snailhouse is Mike Feuerstack of the Wooden Stars, playing pretty acoustic guitar and singing letters to former friends and could-be lovers in a voice that…
Roosevelt Sykes: Raining In My Heart
Don’t let the Peter Max-inspired cover art to this collection fool you. This disc contains the kind of music that leaves the listener wondering what…
Sneakster: Pseudo-Nouveau/Fifty-Fifty
Putting Sneakster’s Pseudo-Nouveau/Fifty-Fifty on the boombox is like entering a sonic room. It’s multidimensional music, and sounds come and go all around you as you…
Smith & Mighty: Big World Small World
Smith & Mighty have had their fair share of bad luck over the years. Their classic, groundbreaking covers of Bacharach & David’s “Anyone (Who Had…
Shakeh: Running
The bravest Borders show I ever saw: a defiant brunette and her tambourine player, dancing and wailing for four people who were alternately bored, dwindling,…
Starch Martins: Dressing up the Failure
Starch Martins have a cool name, CD design, and website. However, their sound isn’t quite as compelling. But that’s what you get when you make…
Starmarket: Sunday’s Worst Enemy
Sunny chord and smooth melodies interwoven with fuzzy guitars and punchy drumming has proven time and again to be a winning combo not unlike lunch…
Shades Apart: Sonic Boom
Remember about six years ago, someone kept programming a punk-rock cover of “Tainted Love” on your neighborhood pub’s CD jukebox? That was by Shades Apart,…
