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• Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere

  

  Writing about the first album I ever bought with my own money (Zappa/Beefheart's Bongo Fury) set off a huge Frank Zappa LP listening frenzy that is still... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Ripple Music Celebrates a Rockin' 2011 with End of the Year Sale!

  

  What a year it's been! Following the debut Ripple releases of 2010, which found Ripple Music topping several Year-End "Best of Lists," Ripple returned in 2011... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Childish Gambino Camp

  

  A week before the public schools let their students out for the summer my news station received a disturbing tip from an anonymous source. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Freedom Hawk - Holding On

  

  Wh-what's this I'm hearing? No...it can't be. Has the new recording from Black Sabbath already been leaked? Oh, wait...this is Freedom Hawk's new album from... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Nunfuckritual - In Bondage to the Serpent

  

  Another band the Ripple crew found exciting enough to review twice. Here's Odin's take. A few months ago my brother and I were at a show and Dying Fetus was... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Fit For A King - Descendants

  Metalcore!? What the fuck does that mean? Is it metal? Is it hardcore? Is it some kind of awesome hybrid much like a zonkey or a manbearpig? Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• She & Him - A Very She & Him Christmas Album

  

  As the song suggests, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” and I couldn’t be happier. Christmas is easily my favorite holiday of the year. Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Nunfuckritual - In Bondage to the Serpent

  

  God, that band name sucks. Seriously? It sucks particularly because it makes genuinely interesting, lushly textured music hard to take seriously. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Thin Lizzy - At the BBC

  

  This holiday season there are some very cool presents for the heavy rock fan in your life (i.e. yourself, your dad, older brother, the dude you buy weeed from... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Rah Rah- Breaking Hearts

  

  Sophomore albums are a tricky thing. For the most part I have found them very interesting to discover, especially when they are from a familiar band I have... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Backwoods Payback - Momantha

  

  I'm guessing that you've already heard of this one and you might even own it, but here's a reminder in case you don't. It's another fantastic rock album from... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• What's Up With the Green Monkey?: Featuring The Green Pajamas, and Sigourney...

  

  About a year or two back, I became enamored with a defunct Seattle indy label called Green Monkey Records. Issuing a string of cassettes, then vinyl, then CD's... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Subways - Young For Eternity

  

  “Yeah, well, they may be superstars but they sold out,” she stared at me with agitation in her voice. We were at a coffee shop in Berkeley. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Bird and the Bee; Interpreting The Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall...

  

  Anytime someone utters the phrase “cover song” or “cover version,” most music aficionados cringe and scoff. The idea of someone covering a “classic” usually end... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Big Truck Keeps on Rollin'! Ripple Music is Proud to Announce the Signing and...

  

  The folks at the 2011 Download Festival felt it. Fans who saw them opening for Black Stone Cherry felt it. The lucky masses who'll be at Hammerfest 2012 are... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Fuck the Facts - Die Miserable

  

  This'll be in my top 3 records of 2011. I really dig it-- much more than I expected to, actually. I was initially put off by the band's name-- profanity in a... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Saint Jude - Diary Of A Soul Fiend

  

  I am a man of my word. Months ago I promised you, my faithful readers, and the Ripple editors that I would select a random piece of new music and review it... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Rhode Island - Light The Windows In These Places Let Through

  

  I work as the Cultural Attaché inside the Theodore Francis Green State Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island. I greet every arriving person/group with a burning... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Thousand Year War - Tyrants and Men

  

  They come from the land of the ice and snow. They play melodic death metal with more than a touch of the Viking in it. But they don’t come from where you... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Desert Doom - Featuring Rise of the Willing, A'rk, and Nasrudin

  

  Nineteen songs from 29 Palms. Three debuts; megaton metal music. Three punishing bands are causing tremors and creating craters in the California sand. Desert... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2011 MUSIC