Swans - Cop/Greed/Holy/Money

Artist: Swans
Title: Cop/Greed/Holy/Money
Label: Thirsty Ear
Rating: 7.5/10

The industrial movement has come and gone in mainstream music, but its dark history is constantly being rediscovered by those looking for obscure albums released years ago. The Thirsty Ear label released The Swans two-disc set, Cop/Greed/Holy Money, a collaboration of early material from the band dating back to 1984. [...]

Sway & King Tech - This Or That

Artist: Sway & King Tech
Title: This Or That
Label: Interscope
Rating: 7/10

Jams galore are what Sway & King Tech bring. There are no fillers, nothing but nonstop music. And the tracks flow seamlessly. Sporting the new school style, with songs like “The Anthem” and “Underground Tactics”, you’ll be more than entertained. But the real prize comes with [...]

Sekou Sundiata - Long Story Short

Artist: Sekou Sundiata
Title: Long Story Short
Label: Righteous Babe
Rating: 6/10

Sekou Sundiata is a gifted poet who spreads the word of African-American awareness. Sundiata teaches English literature at the New School for Social Research and has released a previous album entitled The Blue Oneness of Dreams.
Long Story Short is intelligent and poignant. It certainly will not be [...]

Sunny Day Real Estate

Considering their relatively brief existence, Sunny Day Real Estate have racked up enough dramatic twists and turns to rank with some of the great rock soap operas. Its key members have seemingly engaged in just about every rock clichT imaginable, including finding religion, refusing to work with the media, breaking up and joining a big-name [...]

Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide

Artist: Sunny Day Real Estate
Title: The Rising Tide
Label: Time Bomb Recordings
Rating: 6/10

Sunny Day Real Estate returns with their best effort since the freshmen release of Diary. Their latest release puts them back on the music map. Over a six-year span, the band as gone through many lineup changes and breakups, and now they seem to [...]

Super Furry Animals

“Speakers and microphones work on phantom power, there’s no batteries and they’re not connected to the mains, and yet they work. Similarly, as a band our make up is the same as anybody else and yet we write songs and play music to people, and we have no idea why. It’s a mysterious power source. [...]

Super Transatlantic

Miami. A scene made infamous for its campy, superficial blend of everything that passes through its cafe-strewn streets. Some have called it over the top, a modern day Sodom. Super TransAtlantic calls it home.
They’ve been called some of the greatest rock writers of this generation by two out of four members of the band. Super [...]

Super Transatlantic - Shuttlecock

Artist: Super Transatlantic
Title: Shuttlecock
Label: Universal
Rating: 3/10

Track #
1. Shuttle Cock Mixing metal, funk, and supersonic sounds doesn’t mean it has to be good. The chorus kills this track. 4/10
2. High This is completely run of the mill in today’s market. A few years ago it may have sounded fresh. 4.5/10
3. Superstar You’ll hear “I’m a superstar” [...]

Superchunk

Perhaps no band was more emblematic of the true spirit of American indie rock during the 1990s than Superchunk, the pride of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Following the D.I.Y. ethic to the letter, the group operated solely by their own rules, ignoring all passing trends by sticking to their trademark sound — typified by the [...]

Sugar Ray - Sugar Ray

Artist: Sugar Ray
Title: Sugar Ray
Label: Atlantic
Rating: 8/10

Sugar Ray has gone from making metal to what may best be called adult contemporary. Saying that, Sugar Ray has yet to lose their appeal to teens, perhaps more or less due to their frontman’s good looks and sugary hooks.
“Answer The Phone” is the perfect example of Sugar Ray’s [...]