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• Daily Bandcamp Album; Six Minutes to Midnight by Captain Ivory

  

  "The Motor City is a down and dirty place to be these days. Captain Ivory’s music reflects this sentiment with a raw power that mirrors the crumbled rubble of... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Daily Bandcamp Album; Mad Love by WaxWorks

  

  "WaxWorks is a Chicago based grunge/blues/rock group. Start with a quarter ton of soul, wrap it in a bumpin' groove, grind up some dirty riffs and mix until... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Folks Behind the Music - Spotlight on Steve Howe - The Sludgelord

  

  Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 A new column featuring on the folks who make it their life to spread the word on good music. Today, Steve... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Mellow Candle - Swaddling Songs (1972)

  

  Acid folk, as romantic as the idea may be, is usually pretty hard to listen to. Some of the more well known bands (Silly Wizard, Incredible String Band), while... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Folks Behind the Music - Spotlight on Ken McIntyre - Sleezegrinder

  

  A new column featuring on the folks who make it their life to spread the word on good music. Today, Ken McIntyre, the infamous Sleazegrinder, of Sleazegrinder. Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Heaviest Album I've Heard - Corrosion Of Conformity - Blind

  

  All music written by Corrosion of Conformity. All lyrics by Karl Agell and Pepper Keenan, except Great Purification by Phil Swisher.1. "These Shrouded... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Neige Eternelle – S/T

  

  I had, what is in my opinion, the extreme good fortune to live in the fair province of Quebec for a couple of years in the early 80's. Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Heavy Glow - Live in San Francisco

  

  I was wrong. It took me seeing Heavy Glow plying their trade live for me to realize I'd had the band pegged all wrong from the beginning. Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• A Ripple Conversation with Scorpion Child - Mayhem Fest Backstage Interview

  

  My first interview of the day, and my first face to face interview ever, was with Aryn And Tom Of Scorpion Child. Their album of classic rock riffs and a Seattl... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• An Apology to Joe Hasselvander, Pentagram, Raven, and the Waveriders

  Earlier this week, as part of the "Heaviest" album theme of reviews, one of the Ripple contributors wrote a piece that contained unsubstantiated insinuations,... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Heaviest Album I've Heard - Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version

  

  “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” Nietzsche, the Gay Science, section 125. Is it any wonder Dylan Carlson called his dirt-diggin’... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Heaviest Album I've Heard - Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

  

  I have heard many heavy albums over the years but when it comes down to weight, the 2010 vinyl reissue of Electric Ladyland by the Jimi Hendrix Experience is th... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Trippy Wicked Announce New EP and UK Headlining Tour in August

  

  The UK’s alt-stoner trio have been working on a 5 song EP exploring the sludgier side of their split-personality genre hopping style. Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Lemmy Cuts Comeback Show Short

  

  courtesy of Classic Rock Magazine.com Motorhead were forced to cut short their first show since frontman Lemmy spent several weeks in hospital, after he found... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Heaviest Album I've Ever Heard - Metallica - Master of Puppets

  DRN!!!! DRN-DRN-DRNNNN!!!!  Jubbadubbadabubbada-DRN-DRN-DRN!  Jubbadubbadabubbada-DRN-DRN-DRN – DRN-DRN!!!!!!!!! Once, the question was posed, “what’s the... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Heaviest Album I've Heard - Talking Heads Brick Box Set

  

  The Heaviest Album I OwnThe suggestion was made to “…write a review of the Heaviest album we've ever heard”. “We” being the staff writers of The Ripple Effect. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Heaviest Album I've Heard - Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal

  

  "Heavy." As a term used to describe music, "heavy" suggests to me analogies to horror movie monsters; in this, there are two axes: power, and precision. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Heaviest Album I've Heard - Floor - Self Titled (2002) No Idea Records

  

  A bunch of years back in some metal magazine (most likely Metal Maniacs), I read about this band called Torche. I remember it being somewhere around the time... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Heaviest Album I've Heard - Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning

  

  Thunder And Lightning might be an odd choice as the heaviest album ever considering I like Slayer, Metallica, Exodus et al. However, as some of you may know by... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Heaviest Album I've Heard - Acid Bath - When the Kite Strings Pop

  

  Well, "heavy" can be the most subjective of terms. With regard to what we're hearing, any Slayer record can prove to be the most violently riff-gasmic, while... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC