Sunday, January 1 1995
The Rooks: A Wishing Well
This recording should be appreciated for what it is, a deeply personal scrapbook of sentiments set to complex melody and harmony.
Ted Roddy with The Tearjoint Troubadors: Tear Time
He’s been crisscrossing Texas, hustling gigs in beerjoints and ballrooms from Corpus Christi to Lubbock, dancehalls and roadhouses from Ft. Worth to San Antone, from…
Rambient: Hurricane
The first single off So Many Worlds, “Hurricane”, appears here with several reworkings and spiffed up edits. Rambient, the group behind this tune, consists of…
Tom Russell: Borderland
As Tom Russell sees it, there are two types of borders: geographical and personal. The former is an arbitrary line on a map that divides…
Rainbow: The Best of Rainbow: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection
Rainbow’s founder Ritchie Blackmore is perhaps best known these days for two rather dubious achievements: he wrote the most pedestrian—and most memorable—guitar riff in history…
Retriever, Greatest Moments Of Doubt
Not your typical Orange County pop-punk band, Retriever drench their tunes in layers of distortion, while never losing their strong sense of melody. Frontman Kevin…
Rialto
Rialto’s self-titled debut picks up where Pulp’s 1996 classic Different Class left off—offering glam-influenced Britpop and vivid lyrics presenting snapshots of 1990s lower-middle class British…
Steve Roach: Light Fantastic
Steve Roach seems to be a very eccentric person. Not only does he have dozens (literally) of albums, but they’re all significantly different. He doesn’t…
Royal Trux: Pound For Pound
Hagerty and Herrema’s latest tour de force (and their ninth full-length), Pound For Pound bursts at the seams with fuzz and grit and cigarette butts.…
Rites of Spring: End on End
What really defines a generation? Is it the politics of the day? Is it the pop icons clad on the covers of entertainment rags? Is…
Bill Retoff: Reanimation
Competition for attention as an artist is fierce. Artists send out promos, press kits and letters screaming about the significance of what lies in their…
Ray Paul: The Charles Beat
When The Knack hit #1 with “My Sharona” in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s, it was a really exciting time for a lot of bands skilled…
Phil Ranelin: Vibes from the Tribe / The Time Is Now!
Two good reissues here. Try this for size—hard hitting free jazz, a touch of psychedelia, world music flourishes, funk basslines, Mothers of Invention vocals, revolutionary…
Rialto: Night on Earth
Night on Earth may be Rialto’s sophomore effort, but, in truth, the movers behind this British band have been involved in the Brit-pop music scene…
rhBand, First Tone
With effects in full force, rhBand brings us their third album, First Tone. It comes at just about the time we’ve all become a little…
Royal Crown Revue, The Contender
The gangster shtick may be a bit too much for some, but don’t let that fool you, behind the slightly kitchy image lurks one of…
Red Elephant: More Sounds From Spaghetti Westerns
There’s a lot to be said for novelty. You can listen to a record that reeks of intuition and distinction and probably hear one of…
Sun Ra: reissues
Sun Ra was one of jazz history’s great outsiders. Although he single-mindedly led variously named Arkestras continuously from the mid-1950s until his bodily form passed…
Ruby: Altered and Proud (The Short-Staffed Remixes)
Trip-hop’s Ruby first appeared on the scene in 1996 with Salt Peter and rode the wave of the minor hit “Tiny Meat”. After a five…
Rae & Christian: Sleepwalking
From the über-self-referential beginnings of “Blazing the Crop” (sample lyric: “Rae and Christian / Blazin’ the Crop / Don’t stop y’all till the break of…
