Sunday, January 1 1995
Sweep the Leg Johnny: Tomorrow We Will Run Faster | PopMatters Music Review
In 1984 a movie called The Karate Kid waxed its way into the hearts of critics and audiences alike. With it’s spunky take on the…
Simon Stinger: Devil On My Mind
Many of the songs on Simon Stinger’s second album, Devil On My Mind, wouldn’t sound out of place on one of EMI Records’ Living In…
Gil Scott-Heron: The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron: A Collection of Poetry and Music
Often mentioned in the same sentence as The Last Poets as a forbearer of hip-hop, Gil Scott-Heron created smooth, progressive poetry and backed it with…
Silver Jews, American Water
Something of a side project to Pavement, as well as a band in its own right, the Silver Jews is the brainchild of Virginia singer-songwriter…
Southpacific: Constance
Oh boy. Another “atmosphere” record. Yep, that’s right, another ostensibly “indie rock” band that wants to get away with not paying attention to anything other…
Ronnie Spector, She Talks to Rainbows
Ronnie Spector’s legend precedes her. She is the rock and roll diva that with her sister Estelle and her cousin Nedra became the Ronettes and…
Dusty Springfield: Beautiful Soul: The ABC/Dunhill Collection
When Dusty Springfield, OBE, passed away in March 1999, in time-honored fashion, reissues and compilations of her work began to appear. Beautiful Soul might at…
Shonen Knife, Happy Hour
Wacky Japanese pop-punksters are back with their most straight-ahead pop album ever—and they’ve learned how to play their instruments too. Happy Hour is rolicking frolick…
Stereolab, Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage In the Milky Night
Stereolab did almost the unthinkable—the band took a break. It’s been two years since Dots and Loops, but the hiatus has done nothing to warm…
Sunless Day: Electric Ahhh…
San Francisco’s Sunless Day’s trippy ‘70s inspired rock means well. Playful as well as heavy, Electric Ahhh… is entertaining with its blatant rock and roll…
Tomasz Stanko: From the Green Hill
Jazz music has a long history as a social and cultural force in Eastern Europe. As documented so thoroughly in the novels of Josef Skvorecky,…
Sixty Watt Shaman: Seed of Decades
You know you’re in trouble when a band’s thank-you list is a page long and there’s not one recognizable contemporary musical act listed in the…
Starlight Mints: The Dream That Stuff Was Made Of
On their debut release, Norman, Oklahoma’s Starlight Mints create offbeat pop tunes that are as strange as they are catchy. Incorporating strings in a decidedly…
Sonny Sixkiller: This Is Your Heaven
Talk about a refreshing change of pace…. Sometimes when I’m sitting here listening to CD after CD of mostly loud rock, I catch myself waxing…
String Builder: self-titled
To some, the thoughts of anything strongly rooted in a shade of pure “Americana” are reason enough to jump out of the way in fears…
Shelter: When 20 Summers Pass
Twenty summers ago I was in high school marching band with Ray Cappo, he played the tuba. Little did I know at the time that…
Rod Stewart: Human
Rod Stewart’s glory days span several key moments in the evolution of post-Beatles British rock—from the rise of the white blues brigade around 1964 through…
Sugarcult: Start Static
What is it with bands and their apparent need to squeeze the word ‘sugar’ into their monikers? First we had Sugar Ray, more recently Sugarbomb…
Sweep the Leg Johnny: Sto Cazzo!
Akin to an amusement park ride hazardous to pregnant women and those with heart failure, Sweep the Leg Johnny return to the recorded format with…
Supersuckers, How the Supersuckers became the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World
So I’m sitting in the car outside the grocery store, eating ripple-style potato chips right out of the bag and washing them down with a…
