Sunday, January 1 1995
John Scofield: Steady Groovin’: The Blue Note Groove Sides
John Scofield’s records have always (it says here) contained one or two funk grooves, and Steady Groovin’ is a compilation of those sides from his…
The Soft Boys: Underwater Moonlight
If a rule-book had been written for aspiring punk rockers back in 1977, what the Soft Boys did would have broken every single directive in…
Steely Dan: Gaucho
Eventually, everything comes back into vogue, except maybe the music of Steely Dan. Maybe it’s because of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen’s intellectual smugness, or…
Santana: The Best of Santana: Volume 2
In view of Carlos Santana’s Grammy heist with Supernatural (1999), it’s not surprising that his former label (Columbia) should have scurried to put out this…
Nikki Sudden: The Last Bandit
Ragged glory. It’s a quality that dwells in artists who are able to filter out the superficial clutter of much of rock and pop music…
Starmarket: Four Hours Light
Starmarket’s previous album, Sunday’s Worst Enemy, was a pleasant enough collection of melodic, punky-yet emo-diseased rock. Since then, the band has become a more ambitious…
Bob Schneider: Lonelyland
It’s no mistake that Bob Schneider’s debut album Lonelyland seems a bit of a scattered mess: at first listen, it appears the Austin-based singer-songwriter has…
Superscope: “Girls Smile” b/w “Girls Talk”
“Who is Rueben Kincaide?” asks the inner sleeve to Australia’s Superscope “Girls Smile” single. A better question would be “Who is Superscope?” Apparently they’re Something…
Sam Prekop
Already loaded with indie cred from his work in the Sea and Cake, Sam Prekop teams with indie buds Jim O’Rourke (Gastr Del Sol), Archer…
Joanne Shenandoah: Peacemaker’s Journey
Joanne Shenandoah is a marvel. Chosen as the best female artist for two years running at the Native American Music Awards and winner of numerous…
Chris Smither: Live as I’ll Ever Be
“Hearing is letting it happen,To listen’s a work of will.” —(“Small Revelation,” Chris Smither) The fact that reknown folksinger Eric Von Schmidt painted the cover…
Otis Spann: Last Call: Live at the Boston Teaparty – April 2nd, 1970
The lost tapes found! Spann’s Last Call, is, well, Spann’s last call, the sign from the bar telling you 15 minutes to go. Last Call…
Seely: Winter Birds
Would anyone in the rock biz for self expression intentionally make background music? Atlanta band Seely are clearly serious about what they do. But still,…
Sin Ropas: Three Cherries
There’s no underestimating how important it is to find the right soundtrack to cooking spaghetti, or any food, for that matter. You find yourself not…
Shaver: The Earth Rolls On
It is doubtful there is anyone in music that has gone through life’s emotional wringer as much as Billy Joe Shaver in recent years. The…
The Spin Doctors: Just Go Ahead Now: A Retrospective
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Sarge: Distant
Bands break up all the time, in all sorts of ways and for all sorts of reasons. I like when bands break up loudly: when…
SNFU: The Ping Pong EP
Serious hilarity, energy, longevity…that pretty well sums up SNFU. These guys have been mainstays on the punk scene since the early 1980s, and they still…
The Soft Set: self-titled
The Soft Set have one of the best songs of the year on this latest, self-titled disc. On “Record On”, the Set sing “Stayin’ up…
The Strawmen: Saving Faded Dreams
Melodic jangle pop is hard to do well, but the Strawmen manage that feat time and again on their latest release, Saving Faded Dreams. This…
