Sunday, January 1 1995
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…
Chris Speed: Emit
While it was nice this past winter to take a moment, courtesy of Ken Burns and company, to savour the sounds of jazz history, there…
The Sixth Great Lake: Up the Country
Step into the country with the Sixth Great Lake, on Up the Country. Yet this isn’t the “country” you’ll hear on your local “Hot Country”…
Sharks Keep Moving: Desert Strings and Drifters
Someone tried to explain art to me once, and they used the analogy of “craft” vs. “art” in terms of woodcarving—a craftsman can be a…
Super Furry Animals, Radiator
As a charter member of the fertile Welsh rock scene that includes the Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Catatonia, it’s a bit…
Sunset Valley: Icepond
You can’t blame a band for getting sick of the constant comparisons that critics and consumers make between groups. Shades of Black Sabbath, Beatles-esque, Barry…
Slayer: God Hates Us All
In an admittedly ineffective attempt to duplicate the churningly chaotic spirit of Slayer’s worldview, let’s put the CD player on random and see what evil…
Soulfly: Primitive
If At The Drive In is the more hip and more musically challenging cousin of Rage Against the Machine, then Soulfly would be the more…
Super XX Man: Vol. IV
I first heard Super XX Man in a little shop in Shinjuku, Japan about three years back. It was a cut on a little 7-inch…
Stir: Holy Dogs
There is nothing that’s particularly bad about Stir’s Holy Dogs and that seems to be part of the problem. Despite first impressions and the band’s…
Sleater-Kinney: All Hands on the Bad One
Janet Weiss, Corin Tucker, and Carrie Brownstein are musicians that take on political issues of identity from positions of agency, and All Hands on the…
Shape Shifter: Opiate Sea
This is about as honest as mainstream alternative rock gets right now. Sure all the derivative shit is in place—enough Athens, Seattle, Chapel Hill and…
Supreme Beings Of Leisure: self-titled
Over the past decade, the strict boundaries of musical genres, largely put forth by profit hungry corporate music companies for easy radio play and consumer…
Silver Scooter, Orleans Parish
Sensitive guy rock is all the rage at the moment and Austin’s Silver Scooter is yet another boy pop band jumping on the bandwagon. Mixing…
The Shazam: Rev 9
I never thought I’d say this, but I’d never noticed how great a track the Beatles’ “Revolution #9” from The White Album really is. And…
Cat Stevens: Catch Bull at Four / Foreigner / Buddha and the Chocolate Box
Sound like one of those dreadful trailers for a dire VH-1 Behind the Music episode? Yes, having covered the true giants of the pop music…
Supa DJ Dmitry: Screams of Conciousness
I’m going to start throwing dance parties whenever my shipment o’ CDs from PopMatters arrives. It’s difficult to gauge the effectiveness of a dance music…
