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The Ripple Effect
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The best music you're not listening to.™ Reviews of lost classics and obscure titles. Unheralded bands and songwriters. New bands deserving of greater attention. The site for the music omnivore. It's all here, on the Ripple Effect
LATEST ARTICLES ( 5799 )
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One Direction - Up All Night
Deep breathe now, mates, prepare yourselves. My name is Gorgeous Nightmare, and I......am a One Directioner. I do not deny it, I love One Direction. Read more
Posted on 08 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, LIFESTYLE, MUSIC -
EMA- Past Life Martyred Saints
Entertaining. Mesmerizing. Awesome. These three words best describe one of the most entertaining musical artists to emerge in recent years, Ericka M. Anderson... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Heavy Manic Souls - S/T
Ladies and Gents, wave riders of all ages, Welcome to the venue. Are you ready to rock? I said, ARE YOU READY TO ROCK!. . . . There, that’s more like it. Here i... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Cannibal Corpse - Torture
I actually did send away for the "uncensored" cassette cover of Tomb of the Mutilated, i.e., the undead cunnilingus, and had the first three CC cassettes. Read more
Posted on 06 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Motorhead: World Is Ours Vol. 1, Everything Further Than Everyplace DVD/CD
Last year Classic Rock magazine ran an ad for an upcoming Motorhead DVD called Live In Old New York filmed at a show I was at in February 2011. Read more
Posted on 05 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Haemoth – In Nomine Odium
“This is the soundtrack to your worst nightmare: Life”. So says the press release accompanying this album from French black metallers Haemoth. Read more
Posted on 04 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Alestorm - Back Through Time
For a moment everyone on the ride thought there had been a mechanical malfunction. One moment they’re slowly traveling through room after room celebrating Vikin... Read more
Posted on 04 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Pettybone - From Desperate Times Come Radical Minds
As a young man I fully embraced hardcore punk. The music had an energy and aggression that my beloved thrash metal couldn’t fully match and the moral/political... Read more
Posted on 03 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
An Electrifying, Eclectic Edifice of Ebullient EP's
Featuring The Enders, Hailmary, Mowgli, Engloria, and Cellarscape Read more
Posted on 02 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
In the almighty Pantheon of Doom Metal, next to such immoveable pillars as Black Sabbath and Saint Vitus, there stands ELECTRIC WIZARD from Dorset, England. Read more
Posted on 01 April 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Tony Haven - B Sides and Seasides
PETA. Look, I’m all for humane treatment of animals, but, let’s get something straight. Humane treatment of animals is not necessarily the same thing as the... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Mares of Thrace - The Pilgrimage
Mares of Thrace is guitarist/vocalist Thérèse Lanz and drummer Stefani MacKichan. They play largely-improvised alterna-doom metal. The Pilgrimage tends to... Read more
Posted on 30 March 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Status Quo - Quo Live
So it's Friday night and the party is just starting to get underway. You've already played both sides of Foghat - Live and you're wondering what live album to... Read more
Posted on 29 March 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
RPWL – Beyond Man And Time
You can call it art rock or prog rock and it all means the same to me. I’m sure there are those dear readers out there who would argue with me and say that art... Read more
Posted on 28 March 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
The Single Life - 7" of Fun- Featuring Dinosaur Eyelids and American Sun,
Dinosaur Eyelids - 21 Gram Salute Do you remember the feeling that snuck up on you the first time you got high? You know – “what the fuck is happening?”... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Midnite Brain - Demo
From deep within the smug, *ahem,* I mean, fog of San Francisco, MidniteBrain emerge.Aside from being newly formed, Midnite Brain is one ofthe better named... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
The Life - Alone Deluxe Edition
Speaking of lost treasures! How the world managed to close their ears to the chiming guitar post-new wave of The Life back in the '80's is really one of the... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Enslaved - Isa
I had a dream. Not quite what the good Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had in mind, I’m sure . . . but a dream nonetheless. This one, in particular, had me sitting... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
The Eternal Fall - Emptiness Vol 1 + 2
The Eternal Fall is a very strange band. I loved half the album and didn't like the other half at all. The great songs are light, punky trad goth, while the... Read more
Posted on 25 March 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Blind Willie McTell - Experience Blues
Blind Willie McTell was born Willie Samuel McTell on May 5, sometime between 1898 and 1903, blind in one eye. He lost the sight in his other eye before he becam... Read more
Posted on 24 March 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC