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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 ( 5791 )
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Help Fund a Festival! Clean Air Clear Stars Seeks Kickstarter Support for Its...
Over the past 5 years Clean Air Clear Stars has hosted over 100 of todays best bands such as the Dandy Warhols, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Black Angels,... Read more
Posted on 24 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Jefferson Airplane - 2400 Fulton Street
Tuesday I will be attending San Francisco Giants’ “Grateful Dead Night” at AT T Park. Deadhead friends are flying in from all over California. They will get... Read more
Posted on 23 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Peaches -The Teaches of Peaches
Besides being a music buff I consider myself a movie aficionado. Despite my age I have easily seen over 3,000 different films (at least that I can remember)... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Ripple News - Karma to Burn - Tour Begins Next Week - Updated Tour Dates
Stoner-rock institution KARMA TO BURN is hitting the road next week, taking their immediately recognizable power-jams across the United States this month and... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Winds Of Plague – Against The World
Against The World is the fourth studio album from Winds Of Plague. Winds Of Plague are a Symphonic Deathcore band out of Upland, California. Read more
Posted on 21 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
The American Scene -By Way Of Introduction
Pop rock has this way of clicking in my head. The sound is heavy enough for me to convince myself that it isn't shallow mainstream music, the lyrics are catchy... Read more
Posted on 20 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Firebird - Double Diamond
Firebird’s last album Grand Union was one of my favorites of 2009 and I knew they would have a hard time topping it. Their new album Double Diamond is a very... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Foster the People -Torches
Video may have killed the radio star, but radio exposed the indie rock star. For most of 2011, one band has mesmerized me. Back in February a song came on KROQ... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
The Haunted Continents - The Loudest Year Ever
After a long and arduous journey I parked our van in front of the address the group had provided. I’ll admit that the location was a little spooky, even in... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
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