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The Ripple Effect
http://www.ripplemusic.blogspot.com/
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 ( 5742 )
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The Descendents – Milo Goes To College
I’ve been in quite the musical drought lately. Everything I’ve listened to recently hasn’t caught my ear quite the way I would want it to. Read more
Posted on 14 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Lula Reed - Lula Reed 1951-1954
I was watching American Idol. I never do that. After a few rounds the aspiring talent was packaged by handlers to be palatable to a larger audience. Read more
Posted on 13 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Revenge of the Quick Ripple Bursts - Classics Edition - Featuring Rory Gallagher...
Rory Gallagher - Notes from San Francisco When Rory Gallagher died from complications following a liver transplant in 1995 at only 47 years old, the music... Read more
Posted on 12 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
The Single Life - Featuring Yama, The Enders, Grey Area/Go Rydell, and Youth Gon...
Yama 3 track demo This band remind me of the sadly defunct Gas Giant. There is a metallic edge to their psyched sound which really reinforce the weight of the... Read more
Posted on 12 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Retox – Ugly Animals
Earlier this year I told you about a band called Retox and a man named Justin Pearson. In that review of their selftitled e.p., I mentioned how bad ass they... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
ThrashHead.com Is Proud To Introduce InDaPit.com! A Social Network for Music...
InDaPit.com is a social network specifically designed to address the needs of the underground, a private community where one can relax and discuss anything... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Mournful Congregation - The Unspoken Hymns
Mournful Congregation (specifically their re-issue of early material, The Unspoken Hymns) summon some smoky, trippy, psychogenic-hallucinogenic visions of my... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Borracho - Splitting Sky
Calling Borracho's debut Splitting Sky 'heavy' is like saying Heddbuzz 'enjoys' stoner rock. It's a severe understatement. This album is an epic, earsplitting... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Alice Cooper - Old School Box Set
It was hard not to think of my dear, departed mother when this box set arrived. Man, she HATED Alice Cooper! It was probably a sentiment shared by many who... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Do I Really Have To Say Anything? Featuring Depeche Moe, Megabjork, and Wugazi
Moe Pope, Rain, and Headnodic Present Depeche Moe It’s Depeche Mode songs re-imagined in a hip hop framework! Get It Here- http://headnodic.blogspot. Read more
Posted on 07 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Bandcamp Ripples - The Shovel's Latest Bandcamp Finds for Great Free Music
http://thinningtheherd.bandcamp.com/ Hard to think of a similar band but Gozu sprung to mind. A very well conceived and executed album, good songcraft on displa... Read more
Posted on 07 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
A Non-Sunday Conversation with Michael Amott of Arch Enemy
Before “Khaos Legions” was released, you guys took a break from the studio for nearly 4 years, why the long pause from recording and what finally pushed you guy... Read more
Posted on 07 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Tyrone Wells - Snapshot
Genres are an artifice by which we categorize musical sounds. Closely related genres often overlap. These “crossover” albums are sought by many an artist. Read more
Posted on 06 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Revenge of the Quick Ripple Bursts- the Metal Edition - Featuring Forest of the...
Forest of the Soul - Restless in Flight Truly an amazingly cool record from the fertile mind of Aaron Carey (of Harvist, Nechochewn, and Angelrust) and his... Read more
Posted on 05 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Cicatriz' Six Pack – September - Featuring Obi Wan Kanblo Mi, Chris Benoit, Deat...
Hello Waveriders!! Beginning this month I will be trying something a little different. Recently, I have spent my fair amount of time discovering new FREE music... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Asking Alexandria - Reckless and Relentless
By now some of you Waveriders know about the band Asking Alexandria. For those that don't, well here is your lesson. Asking Alexandria are a metalcore band out... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Wavves - King of the Beach
The best show I have seen this year took place at the Echoplex in Los Angeles, California (Silver Lake and Echo Park area). For those not familiar with The... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Modern Day Moonshine Plow Their Allman Brothers-tinged Classic Rock Sound with...
Classic rock. Music to the ears of rock lovers everywhere. With it's variety of styles and influences, there was a classic rock sound for every taste. Read more
Posted on 02 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Powerwolf - Blood of the Saints
...and sometimes, awesomeness just falls into your lap. I stumbled across Powerwolf and their second album, Blood of the Saints, the way I found new albums way... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Soul Manifest - White Seaon
I've been in and around Europe but that was years ago and it's only been lately that I've started listening to rock bands from across the pond. Read more
Posted on 01 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC