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• Cortez - S/T

  

  This is one of the easiest reviews I'll ever get to write. Cortez is one of my favorite contemporary bands playing mid-tempo heavy rock. Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Stubb - S/T

  

  Tenacity and perseverance…two of the most essential personality traits to have as a rock musician in this day and age. As the old saying goes, if at first you... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Teramaze - Anhedonia

  

  Teramaze sound like dream theater with some balls. True to thrash form they unleash plenty of staccato riffing but temper that steel with some killer vocals. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Wino & Conny Ochs - Heavy Kingdom

  

  “Hi everyone I’m Penfold. Welcome to Penfold’s Wildlife Adventures. In today’s episode you’ll follow along as I try to observe the legendary Wino and his... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 MUSIC, SELF EXPRESSION

• Spiritual Beggars – Return To Zero

  

  I’ve been a fan of Michael Amott for a while now. He certainly has all the death metal cred he needs, having formed Arch Enemy back in 1996, after doing a... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Moonspell - Alpha Noir

  

  I’m really surprised more people aren’t talking about this album. I don’t meaning raving and claiming it to be the second coming of Master of Puppets or whateve... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Alestorm - Back Through Time

  

  Alestorm's genre was listed as Scottish Pirate Metal. I am not kidding you. This is possibly the coolest, weirdest thing I have ever had the fortune to stumble... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2012 MUSIC

• Ojos De Brujo - Techarí

  

  There I was - an American in Barcelona in the late 1970’s. I paid for a small habitación off Las Ramblas. The city was, and is, a dizzyingly strange merger of... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Acephalix - Deathless Master

  

  Acephalix' last full-length, Interminable Night, was my no. 7 album of last year, so I was excited to hear this one. It's very similar to Black Breath's... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Freak Kitchen - Land of Freaks: New Reissue

  

  Great news waveriders. This amazing album, and the entire Freak Kitchen catalog, is being reissued by Lasers Edge. Land of Freaks is released 5/22. Dig it and... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Black Earth - Pink Champagne

  

  Black Earth. Dwell on the words for a second. Imagine it. Inhale it. Feel it in your hands. Black. Rich. Pungent. Dirty. Fertile. Moist. Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Ripple Library - Vincebus Eruptum Magazine; Heady-Psych Music

  

  Special treat for you waveriders. We love Heavy Psych, Stoner, and Riff Rock around the Ripple. How could we not with bands like Stone Axe, Poobah, JPT Scare... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2012 COMIC BOOKS, MUSIC

• Ripple Tech - Tweaker Travel Speakers - The Best Little Noise on the Planet

  

  Different column today, but I wanna share something pretty darn cool. If you're like me and travel quite a bit and listen to a lot of music, you probably know... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2012 GADGETS, MUSIC, TECH

• Stonehaven – Concerning Old-Strife And Man-Banes

  

  Hailing from the Midwest, (I’ve seen that they are from Kansas and Kansas City, and there is a Kansas City, Kansas, so both could be right), we have Stonehaven. Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• MOS GENERATOR 10th Anniversary Re-Issue Test Pressing to Be Auctioned Off for...

  

  Continuing with the company tradition of giving back to the community, Ripple Music will auction an extremely Rare Original Test Pressing of the Mos Generator... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Hypno5e - Acid Mist Tomorrow

  

  A couple of years ago, this little art-y metal band from France called Hypno5e came along with an album entitled Des Deux L’une Est L’autre, that in the most... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Sound&Shape; - Hourglass

  

  Sorry. I ran out of superlatives for Sound Shape a long time ago.I ran out of ways to describe their incredibly complex yet infinitely melodic and... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Feuerzeug - Dead Wahines and Tsunamis

  

  Mark my words. When future music historians look back at the the career of Swiss sci-fi-toned stoner, heavy rockers, Feuerzeug, they're gonna to look at the... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Dark Earth - The Book of Faces

  

  If you like faster Sabbath-rock that hails from the realm of Acid King and Sleep, then Dark Earth is something you'd dig. The demo is on The Book of Faces. Chec... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• A Sunday Conversation with Michael Wertz; Artist, Illustrator and Album...

  

  My name is Michael Wertz, and I am an Illustrator, and a Bay Area native. I've been making illustrations and screenprints since 1995. Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC