Sunday, January 1 1995
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,…
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…
