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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 ( 5790 )
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More Revenge of the Quick Ripple Bursts - Featuring Joan of Arc, Occult Detectiv...
Joan of Arc – Life Like Has it really been a year since Joan of Arc released Flowers? And Boo Human a year before that? Has Ripple really been around that long? Read more
Posted on 18 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Despise You / Agoraphobic Nosebleed - And On And On... - Split
It's been a long time since a split CD has really caught my attention and made me want to continue to listen to it over and over. Read more
Posted on 17 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Cain Marko- At Sea
The last person on that planet someone should be talking to about punk is me. Mainly because although I like the genre, I know very little of it. I do have... Read more
Posted on 16 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Charlie Simpson- Down Down Down EP
“Girl I have seen your dreams and they were filled with darkness but your eyes turn wide in the bright light I know there is torment in your heart Ooooh, and it... Read more
Posted on 16 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
More Revenge of the Quick Ripple Bursts - Featuring Peter Case, Paul Collins,...
Peter Case - The Case Files From The Breakaways to The Nerves to The Plimsouls to his solo career, Peter Case has always weaved a web of quality, roots based... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Mountain – Climbing!
As I write this, Mountain’s legendary guitarist Leslie West is recuperating in the hospital following leg amputation surgery due to his long term diabetes. Read more
Posted on 14 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Pharoahe Monch - W.A.R. (We Are Renegades)
I was once happy. My life was filled with laughter and good cheer. I had great friends, a supportive family, and work that filled me with pride. For as long as ... Read more
Posted on 13 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
JPT Scare Band Continues Their Mad Ascent with First Live Gig in Over 35 Years
What a year it's been for JPT Scare Band! After plying their frenzied, hard-rocking, acid blues trade in near obscurity, the world is waking up to JPT Scare... Read more
Posted on 12 July 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
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