Sunday, January 1 1995
The Supers: Spklanng!
Boasting a cartoon cover and an album title that the late Don Martin would be proud of, Toronto’s Supers are every bit as energetic as…
Seven Storey Mountain: Based on a True Story
It’s difficult to pin down where Seven Storey Mountain is coming from or where they’re trying to go with Based on a True Story. The…
Signalmen: Falsetto Teeth
If you’ve been keeping up with most of my reviews the past few weeks, then you’ve probably noticed that I haven’t been moved by too…
Savage Garden: Affirmation | PopMatters Music Review
Let’s get it out into the open right away: Savage Garden are completely mainstream. They’re clean-cut, popular among teenage girls, and could comfortably be played…
Matthew Shipp: Matthew Shipp’s New Orbit
As “curator” of Thirsty Ear’s The Blue Series, that label’s jazz line, Matthew Shipp has wasted little time in releasing two of its four inaugural…
Matthew Sweet: Time Capsule: The Best of 90/00
While Sweet seems to have crawled from the same primordial pop and jangle as contemporaries like Teenage Fanclub and Velvet Crush (whom he has produced…
Stereophonics, Performance and Cocktails
American critics have been busy slagging off the Stereophonics sophomore effort for the past month, labeling it second-rate Oasis and Radiohead. They’re flat out wrong.…
Sugarbuzz, Submerged
With a solid grounding in rock’s great Bs—Beatles, Beach Boys, Byrds, and Big Star, Chicago’s Sugarbuzz purvey the sort of effortless pop that lodges their…
John Scofield: Bump
John Scofield must have enjoyed hanging out with Medeski, Martin and Wood, his bandmates on 1998’s A Go Go, because he is back with another…
Cat Stevens: Numbers / Izitso / Back to Earth
There have been three quite distinct phases in the pop life of the man born Steven Georgiou of Greek antecedence in London in 1947. During…
Stratford Merenaries: Sense of Solitude
Apparently, punks no longer following the nihilistic footsteps of Darby Crash, Johnny Thunders, Wendy O. Williams, and, of course, Sid Vicious, passing on as a…
Stubborn All Stars: Nex Music
Recorded at Version City studio, Nex Music is the third full-length production for the All-Stars. Like 1994’s Old’s Cool, the All-Stars made Nex Music with…
Stereolab: The First of the Microbe Hunters
Stereolab is, at its core, a charming couple making sweet, campy pop that serves as an equally appropriate soundtrack for European car commercials and art…
Sister Seven: Wrestling Over Tiny Matters
Sister Seven highlights the booming vocals of Patrice Pike set to an eclectic, alternative rock motif. Her voice is impossible to miss, encompassing a bit…
Cat Stevens: Mona Bone Jakon / Tea for the Tillerman / Teaser and the Firecat
These three albums, released between 1970 and 1972, gained Cat Stevens a great deal of popularity in America. Now they’re back, as part of a…
The Spinatras: @ Midnight.Com
Ross The Boss is the guitar player in this band. What, you’re still here? Get to the store now! I would love to get away…
Bill Sims
Mr. Sims’ self-titled album seeks to pay tribute to family legacies and, as such, one can’t fault his more laid back approach to the blues.…
Sig Transit Gloria: 2>8>2000
I have a feeling that this is one of those albums you’re going to either love immediately or sell back to the music store the…
The Sights: Are You Green?
OK, just give me a couple minutes to catch my breath here. I actually started to sit down and write this review about 30 minutes…
Snake River Conspiracy: Sonic Jihad
Hearing Sarah MacLachlan and Jewel on the radio alongside Matchbox Twenty and the Foo Fighters is no longer anything worth noting. The sensitivity of women…
