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• 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

• The Bloody Hollies - Yours Until the Bitter End

  

  "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned." I sat uncomfortably in the confessional. Beyond the wood and iron door, night fell about the cathedral. No... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Lapse/Eddie Brock - Split 7”

  

  I got my hands on this split just a few days ago. I am glad I did. Both of these bands come from the Baltimore area and place wickedly fast hardcore. Both of... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Fugazi and Dischord Launch the Fugazi Live Series Online Archive

  

  Fugazi is a band from Washington, DC. Between 1987 and 2003 Ian MacKaye, Joe Lally, Brendan Canty and Guy Picciotto played over 1000 concerts, covering all fift... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Paul McCartney's THE LOVE WE MAKE - ~On DVD and Blu-ray December 6~

  THE LOVE WE MAKE ~On DVD and Blu-ray December 6~ It was one of the most emotional documentaries ever aired on the Showtime Cable Network. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Zola Jesus- Conatus

  

  You know an album is good when it grows on you with every listen. The same can be said about certain musicians with every time you listen to one of their songs. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Mos Generator Showcase Debut Re-Issue Package Live To Packed House

  

  November 5th, 2011, Port Orchard, Washington stoner rock legends, Mos Generator, clawed their way to back from the underground to celebrate the release of... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Rwake - Rest

  

  Zoinks, man. When recently concert-going, I saw so many Rwake shirts, both on the bands and in the crowd, I was forced to reconsider my perhaps-hasty dismissal... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes

  

  Another week, another review of a double live album. I could have sworn I wrote this one up a year or so ago for Ripple but was amazed that I did not. Good... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Landmine Marathon - Gallows

  

  Landmine Marathon. On the surface, that doesn’t sound like much fun. 26.2 miles of running through landmines? No, thank you. Fortunately, the band is a lot... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Charles Mingus - Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus

  

  (another album the Ripple crew loved so much, it had to be reviewed twice. you can read the earlier review here) Some musical minds are beyond description.... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Soul Cycle - S/T and Oresund Space Collective - Dead Man in Space

  

  Simply put, I love instrumental music. But I've been asked many times, "How can you listen to that?" There's no lyrics. No voice to tell you the story.... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• A Ripple-full of Blues; Featuring Roy Roberts, Sista Monica Parker, Gina Sicilia...

  

  Any regular reader of the Ripple (affectionately known as a waverider) will know that its usually Old School who regales us with tales and reviews from the blue... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• A Sunday Conversation with Pile

  

  How’d you come up with the name Pile? The band started just as a solo thing and none of the songs were really congruent with each other so they just seemed... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• No Turning Back - Take Control

  Lately it seems my musical tastes have been changing. Almost to the extreme of changing on a daily basis. Sunday: bands like The Smiths, Elliot Smith or City an... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Head Cat - Walk the Walk...Talk the Talk

  

  There are a handful of music icons simply known by one name. Some of these mononymous people include renowned legends Bono, Elvis, Madonna, Prince, Flea,... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC