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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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Ripple News - LO-PAN To Begin Let Freedom Ding Tour; Vinyl Out Now!
Ohio rockers LO-PAN have unveiled their latest slew of tour dates in support of their Small Stone Records debut, Salvador. After scores of shows across the... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Ocean Grove - Another Place To Stay
When Racer tossed me the new Ocean Grove EP release entitled Another Place To Stay. I didn’t know what to expect. When I queued it up for the first time I... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Abby Posner -The Gatherer and the Thief EP
Ever since I began writing for The Ripple Effect I’ve come across a wide variety of music artists, some good and some shockingly good. Read more
Posted on 15 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Tyrannosorceress – Demo 2011
Tyrannosorceress is a 5 piece Blackend Doom Death band out of the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area, aka for me they are some hometown dudes. I found out about... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Benjamin Francis Leftwich- Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm
What is the best birthday present one may get? The album of someone you have been following for quite a while. Pretty much since I have been writing for... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Horn's Microreviews for You, the Diligent Consumer - Featurng Summon the Crows,...
So here's the plan: Recently, reading an article on another site we'll call... Grapefruits Impossible to Perceive With Your Eyes, I came to the worrying... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
XII Boar – XII
This is the 2nd installment in my random reviews. Racer sends me tons of stuff to check out and unfortunately I don’t get to hear all of it in a timely basis... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
The Black Metal Butterfly Effect 2 - Featuring Of Wrath And Ruin
Sam, Bradley and I winked back into existence in the middle of my basement. After the transit disorientation faded I took inventory of myself and happily... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, LIFESTYLE, MUSIC -
UK's Grifter Release Digital Single - Exclusive Premeire On The Obelisk
So far the reviews have been unanimous. The Soda Shop has proclaimed that Grifter "comes at you swinging like a heavyweight champion full of jabs and... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
The Mattson 2 - Feeling Hands
In 1978 I left Montreux right after the jazz festival and arrived by train in Grindelwald. I was backpacking in the Bernese Alps and planned to stay in... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
A non-Sunday Conversation with Roll Acosta
What have been your musical epiphany moments? Jake: I usually have musical epiphany’s randomly. Sometimes I’m at work, in the shower, and most appropriately... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Wiccans – Skullduggery
I have always been really big on punk rock, especially hardcore. My favorite thing about the punk/hardcore scene is the diy attitude. Do it yourself, cause no... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Fire Apes- A Life In Letters
When I describe a band how I feel they are, I am always a little concerned they will get offended if I say something like “very sugar pop” and it wasn't the... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Revocation - Chaos of Forms
Holy. Shit. When's the last time an album made you say that while you're hearing it? I can't remember, myself. I remember loving albums, or thinking riffs were... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Black Country Communion 2
I had absolutely no intention of ever trying to hear this album let alone review it, but for some reason Glenn Hughes is playing a recurring role in my life... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Mr. J. Medeiros - Saudade
It was morning. There was nothing spectacular about the day ahead, or the day that had passed for that matter. One day bled into the next in an endless... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
The Jeff Golub Band Featuring: Henry Butler - The Three Kings
Albert, B.B. and Freddie. The trinity forms the foundation of modern day guitar-based blues and rock. Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Johnny Winters,... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
John Martyn - Heaven and Earth
Strange how it happens. Strange how an artist can have such a big impact in the U.K. yet barely transfer across the big pond to American audiences. Rory... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee PartTwo
Hey Waiveriders! Normally I'm not known for reviewing Hip Hop albums but hell, I'm probably the only one who is gonna review the new Beastie Boys album. I'm sur... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Y LUV- How Chill Can You Let Go
Did you know PR companies remind me a lot of foxes? Not the real foxes with the bushy tails, but the cunning ones that are portrayed in cartoons. Read more
Posted on 30 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC