Lacuna Coil – Review September 1, 1998 Similar to The Gathering, yet incorporating emphatic male vocals like Sky Cries Mary, Lacuna Coil release a beautifully-produced 30-minute debut.
Sonic Youth – SYR2 – Review April 1, 1998 A jump-cut noise blowout, which settles into a clanging, exploratory groove, followed by a languid, cymbal-punctuated meander, and a minimal, spatial coda.
Soil – Review April 1, 1998 A 20-minute self-titled debut from a Midwestern bunch of hopefuls sprinkled with a few veterans of the heavy underworld. A very impressive debut.
Sheep on Drugs – Never Mind the Methadone – Review April 1, 1998 If you’re into long grooves and remixes, by all means, get this – there’s some good quality stuff here, I’m just not too into it.
Firewater – The Ponzi Scheme – Review April 1, 1998 Some people were let down by Tod’s apparent turncoating from the Cop Shoot Cop sound, but the same energy exists in Firewater. The name says it all.