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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 ( 5742 )
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Red Wanting Blue - These Magnificent Miles
The road is a fickle mistress. Ask any working band that is trying to make a living playing music. The band is usually on a bus, van, truck or RV stuffed with... Read more
Posted on 12 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Rick Barton and the Shadow Blasters – An American Rock Song
There’s an iconic scene in the movie “American Beauty” where the characters and the audience are mesmerized by an image of a plastic grocery bag blowing in the... Read more
Posted on 11 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Harm's Way - Isolation
Hey, Waiveriders! It's your old pal Cicatriz. Today I bring you another awesomely hard hitting Hardcore album. Today we speak of Harm's Way. Harm's Way is a... Read more
Posted on 10 July 2011 MUSIC -
The Uglysuit- Awwww, Shucks
When I find a band that I fall in love with it is usually their debut release and I have to wait another year or more before I get new tunes from them. So,... Read more
Posted on 09 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Neighbors- August EP
I have always been an earphone user due to the cheap, easily portable options that it offers. However, after a particularly horrific incident when BOTH of the... Read more
Posted on 09 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
KONG! - Mind Eraser
Wow, this band is a punch in the face. I've been listening to a lot of classic and alternative rock lately and switching to something this heavy and crushing wa... Read more
Posted on 08 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Van Cleef – Where The River Meets The Rock
In honor of Racer being bored with the look of the Ripple Effect and re-designing it, I decided I’m bored with my own writing habits. Read more
Posted on 07 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Poobah’s Award-Winning LP, Let Me In, Back In Stock at Ripple Music
Due to massive demand from the clamoring horde of heavy-psyche rock, proto-metal, and Poobah fans world-wide, Poobah’s Let Me In vinyl edition has seen a... Read more
Posted on 06 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Brent Hinds Presents: West End Motel
. . .Continued From Fiend Without A FaceWith grave concern quickly taking up all of my conscious thoughts, I gently spurred my horse into a slow trot. Read more
Posted on 06 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Peabo Bryson - The Peabo Bryson Collection
In 1984 I was standing at the bar at Henry Africa’s with several other male friends trying to find a way to get the fern bar beauties to do the wild thing. Read more
Posted on 05 July 2011 MUSIC, SELF EXPRESSION -
Svarti Loghin - Drifting Through The Void
In one of my numerous daily conversations with my writing/business partner and the musical savant Racer X, I made mention that I was kinda’ digging this weird... Read more
Posted on 04 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Retox - S/T EP
By now everyone is aware or should be aware of a man named Justin Pearson. It seems as though he is part of every important new and past noise rock,... Read more
Posted on 03 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
The Single Life - 7 Inches of Fun - Featuring Benjamin Francis Leftwich,...
Benjamin Francis Leftwich - “Box of Stones”“Boxes of Stones” is a really beautiful song, musically and lyrically. Starting out simply with acoustic finger... Read more
Posted on 02 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Free Music and Rare Demos from John Wicks of The Records
Fans of powerpop know of The Records, a legendary '80's band. Now John Wicks, lead singer of The Records and co-writer of the hit songs "Starry Eyes" and "Heart... Read more
Posted on 02 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Blackwolfgoat - Dronolith
Screw your assumed preamble: is track one, "Building buildings," a reference to seminal German industrial band, Einstürzende Neubauten, whose name roughly... Read more
Posted on 01 July 2011 MUSIC -
Classic Rock Revisited - Doobie Brothers Live at the Greek Theatre 1982 On CD &...
On June 28, The Doobie Brothers Live At The Greek Theatre 1982 will be released on CD and DVD through Eagle Rock Entertainment. Read more
Posted on 01 July 2011 MUSIC -
Grifter Preparing To Pummel World With 1st Full Length Album
Ripple Music is proud to announce the new Grifter self-titled CD is in the final throes of post-production and set for release on Tuesday, October 4th in the... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2011 MUSIC -
Free Download of Thrash Bash Compilation - July 2 - Toronto - Featuring...
Attention Metal Heads! In accordance with the head banging convention of 666, a FREE DOWNLOAD compilation has been put together for Thrash Bash III in Toronto o... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2011 MUSIC -
Been Obscene - The Magic Table Dance
I’d like to start this review with an apology to Been Obscene . . . and to Elektrohasch . . . and to my cohorts in cohorts in crime at The Ripple Effect. Read more
Posted on 30 June 2011 MUSIC -
Brent Hinds Presents: Fiend Without A Face
The sun was halfway through its long descent down a cloudless sky. Thanks to this small miracle, the sweltering heat of the day was slowly melting away. Read more
Posted on 29 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC