Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Dec 11, 2009, 2:56 am
Way back in nineteen eighty whatever, most U.S. adolescents pretty much thought that Russia was just this big land mass somewhere to the east, er . . . west, uh . . . east and west of us, that practic...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Dec 10, 2009, 3:00 am
Someone in this band has been listening to Wishbone Ash. That’s the first thing that popped into my mind after giving the new Baroness a spin. It’s not surprising since Baroness has always brought...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Dec 9, 2009, 2:07 am
It’s easy to see why Ian Gillan was inspired to work with this ragged and raw, incendiary gang. At their best, they managed the compelling riff-mania of Purple, fused with some serious blues licks a...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Dec 8, 2009, 2:29 am
Yep, here at the Ripple we're just giddy about this. After all this is the very first tour we've had a hand in sponsoring and the line-up is leaving us drooling in little fanboy puddles. To ...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Dec 7, 2009, 5:28 am
The steps leading up to the dark and decrepit mansion are damp from evening moisture and the fog sends goose pimples across the flesh. One tentative footstep in front of the next, you and your company...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Dec 6, 2009, 3:28 am
Incorporating violins, narrative-like vocals, and off time beats, John Frazier and the 8 Year Olds debut album, Boogieman, tore the mesh off of my speakers within a handful of listens. What makes musi...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Dec 5, 2009, 2:23 am
It wasn't that long ago that we told all you waveriders about a dynamite new band, Rachael, coming from the post-punk underground in Poland. Rachael's first release, I Bet You Like Drugs Inste...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Dec 4, 2009, 2:49 am
What do you get when you combine the vocal register of the Philly Soul of the Ojay’s lead singer Eddie LeVert, and B.B. King and George Benson guitar styles with Tower of Power and the Crusaders typ...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Dec 3, 2009, 2:47 am
This was one of the easiest reviews I ever had to write. If you’re an AC/DC fan, you need this. If you’re not, that’s fine too. More fun for the rest of us. This 3 disc set contains 1 CD of stud...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Dec 2, 2009, 3:06 am
Sometime back, a number of months ago really, I wrote up a review on a progressively tinged rock band from Minnesota called Oceans. Though filled with many memorable moments, the element that sticks i...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Dec 1, 2009, 2:22 am
Rammstein’s much discussed and highly sought after LIEBE IST FÜR ALLE DA box set, which features six sex toys, lubricant, handcuffs and a special album version packaged in a custom flight case is n...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 30, 2009, 2:45 am
Throughout mythology, there have always been bizarre creations, amalgamations of disparate elements that should never be able to exist together. The part-man, part-bull Minotaur; the part human, part...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 29, 2009, 2:37 am
Joining us today, on the red leather Ripple interview couch is our good friend, Gary Lalin, singer songwriter, multi-Instrumentalist of the extremely retro, definitively groovy, Garage Gods, whose deb...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 28, 2009, 3:10 am
With their sold-out European "Doolittle Tour" complete and a similar standing-room-only U.S. leg just underway (which features a complete performance of their 1989 classic Doolittle each night), the P...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 27, 2009, 2:00 am
The other day, I sat in front of my television, with my 90 pound hound manically chewing his squeeze toy by my side, and fired up my now ancient version of NHL 2001 for the original Playstation. I’m...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 26, 2009, 2:45 am
When it was announced at the start of this year that Scott Kelly of Neurosis, Al Cisneros of OM, Dale Crover of the Melvins and doom hero Scott Wino Weinrich were recording an album together, people s...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 25, 2009, 2:28 am
A Clever Con – The Robot EP It was only last year that we wrote about the frenetic, Incubus-inspired rock/metal/everything else hybrid that was A Clever Con’s debut demo disc. Now the alt-rock cr...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 24, 2009, 2:42 am
By now, you all should know that we at The Ripple Effect love music for a variety of different reasons. But one that seems to get forgotten in the midst of all of the sounds of the music is the words,...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 23, 2009, 2:11 am
It’s been awhile since I’ve treated you Waveriders to a delightful set of metal for your Monday morning travels, and it’s not because of lack of metal. Oh no! There’s been more metal that I ca...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 22, 2009, 5:46 am
After Steve McLeod’s album, Human Uniform, left the Ripple offices a gyrating soulful mess, we tracked the man down in the midst of a tour across Australia to see how he made the whole groovin’ th...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 21, 2009, 2:24 am
Let's face it. There really aren't too many '80's pop songs as fun as M's "Pop Muzik." Well now, Union Square Music announces a 30th anniversary compilation celebrating a classic...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 20, 2009, 2:31 am
Through the technological wonder and infinite time-sink that is Facebook, I’ve had the fun of reconnecting with gobs of old friends from college, high school, heck, even grade school; and part of th...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 19, 2009, 2:29 am
Originally released in 1989 on Metal Blade, it’s good to have Anvil’s kick ass live album back in print. This came out after their minor brush with North American success thanks to the video for �...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 18, 2009, 2:15 am
I often find myself in a place of reverie, contemplating what my life would be like without heavy metal. From the time that I first heard the distorted notes of “Detroit Rock City” at the tender a...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 17, 2009, 2:30 am
Puscifer – C is for (Please Insert Sophmoric Genitalia Reference Here) EP Once upon a time Maynard James Keenan applied his unique vocal stylings to Tool, and Tool alone. Then, he signed on with A...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 16, 2009, 2:12 am
I love driving on the open road. Convertible top down. Wind blowing through my hair . . .er . . . scalp. Whatever. Wind blowing against me, chilling my skin, making me feel alive. With that in mi...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 15, 2009, 2:53 am
Knocking our heads for a spin with his straight-out-of-the-desert brand of stoner/doom rock, Oscape made a big impression on the Ripple office when their first EP The Growing Ground fell into our laps...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 14, 2009, 2:02 am
While perusing the pages on MySpace, the name of Byzantine caught my eye, and being the monumental fans that we are at The Ripple Effect about this band, I figured this might be worth checking out. Su...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 13, 2009, 2:32 am
The thing that I’ve always liked about the singer/songwriter has always been their ability to strip the music down to its barest form and move the soul with a vibrant array of lyrics. But the lyrics...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 12, 2009, 2:17 am
There’s really only one way to describe The Accused – sick. That’s the way it’s been since 1981 when guitarist Tommy Niemeyer formed the band with his perverted friends in Oak Harbor, Washingt...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 11, 2009, 2:03 am
The act of distillation is to extract the essence of something, condensing it down to its most pure state. When referring to whiskey, the distillation is done in a big pot and Scotch whiskey is disti...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 10, 2009, 2:36 am
It was 1976 when the Steve Miller Band played the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on the Fly Like An Eagle tour. A thin-framed, long-haired apparition, with no discernible instrument, stepped to the for...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 9, 2009, 2:25 am
Generally, I tend to like weird. By weird, I simply mean something that’s different than the status quo or something with a unique twist on the usual. That’s what weird is, right? Outlandish and b...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 8, 2009, 2:53 am
Swirly, spacey, transcendent, and altogether a near-spiritual experience. Yes, I'm describing the first time I ever heard My Sleeping Karma's brand of pyschedelic stoner rock. Mesmerizing is...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 7, 2009, 2:59 am
French experi-metalists HYPNO5E have just announced their headlining run through the US on the METAL AS ART Tour with Revocation of Relapse Records, and The Binary Code. The METAL AS ART Tour marks H...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 6, 2009, 3:17 am
Brothers of the Sonic Cloth/ Mico de Noche - Split 10" I don't care what you say, Tony Reed is the Stephen King of the music world. I don't know when that cat ever sleeps! On top of his r...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 5, 2009, 2:58 am
It had been over 15 years since Saint Vitus toured the east coast and since breaking up in 1996 their popularity had grown considerably. They did some reunion shows in 2003 that left everyone wanting ...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 4, 2009, 2:20 am
Every time that I hear music like that found on The Pimps of Joytime’s High Steppin’, the words of Chuck D ring in my head like the man was rockin’ the mic two inches from my ears. “Who stole ...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 3, 2009, 2:49 am
Now, I don't know if I'd call myself a Finn brothers groupie or not, but I'll tell you, ever since the day that I first heard "Poor Boy," off of the Split Enz True Colours album, I've ...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 2, 2009, 2:33 am
If Genesis was music for art school aristocrats, Yes for classical music purists and ELP for fans of pomp in all its bombastic glory, then Jethro Tull was prog rock for the everyman. Maybe it's t...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Nov 1, 2009, 1:13 am
Continuing on with our series of interviews with the people who bring us the music. How did you get started running an independent record label? I have been a musician my whole life. Since I was yo...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 30, 2009, 2:45 am
It’s no secret that Petty Crux are a Ripple favorite, so it should really come as no surprise that when we received an invitation to catch the band,s first live performance, with their new members i...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 29, 2009, 2:56 am
Most fans of The Stooges are completely unaware of this era of the band. Everyone knows that Ron Asheton played guitar on the first 2 Stooges albums from 1969 and 1970 and switched to bass for the Raw...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 28, 2009, 2:46 am
Yes, we live in an interesting world. Wonder what a visionary like Jules Verne or H.G. Wells would say if they saw the plugged in, fiber optic-linked, satellite-fed world we live in today. Would the...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 27, 2009, 2:55 am
... me, this song is one long aural orgasm. Whew, out of breath. www.myspace.com/blanefonda Higher Giant - Al's ... know their instruments and aren't afraid of progging up their tunes...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 26, 2009, 2:03 am
I’m not exactly sure what I was expecting when I dug this disc out of the pile of submissions that’s seemingly growing by its own volition next to my desk. I vaguely remember seeing the cover of t...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 25, 2009, 2:42 am
Recorded on a simple 8 track recorder, the Killing Lazarus self titled mini epic thrilled the Ripple offices with its multi-faceted themes and emotions. It may have toiled in the pile of submissions f...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 24, 2009, 2:39 am
We'd threatened we were going to do it, and just like an upcoming Presidential election, we always deliver what we promise. Wait, I mean unlike a Presidential election . . oh never mind. Here&#...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 24, 2009, 2:12 am
One of the things we like best about being part of this biz, is when we realize that a lot of the artists we love, are actually just real people. People who care about others. Work hard to help each...
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Ripple Effect posted an article on The Ripple Effect - Oct 23, 2009, 2:43 am
It doesn't take more than one second of this dynamite new release by retro-seventies rockers, Kamchatka, before you feel it. Listen to that low rumble of bass approaching, thudding towards you li...
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