Brothers of the Sonic Cloth/ Mico de Noche - Split 10" I don't care what you say, Tony Reed is the Stephen King of the music world. I don't know when that cat ever sleeps!On top of his raving retro-seventies band Mos Generator, his much-more-than-a-side-project, blues-rock rave-up Stone Axe, Reed somehow managed to find the time to either engineer, mix and/or master each song on this bludgeon...
More >
An Electrifying, Eclectic Edifice of Ebullient EP's
Field Report - Saint Vitus – Club Europa, Brooklyn 10/16/09
-
Artist:
It had been over 15 years since Saint Vitus toured the east coast and since breaking up in 1996 their popularity had grown considerably. They did some reunion shows in 2003 that left everyone wanting more, and they finally played again earlier this year in Europe. The warm up show they did in New Orleans was the first time Saint Vitus ever sold out a club in America and featured members of Down...
More >
The Pimps of Joytime - High Steppin'
-
Artist:The Pimps of Joytime
-
Album:Hight Steppin'
Every time that I hear music like that found on The Pimps of Joytime’s High Steppin’, the words of Chuck D ring in my head like the man was rockin’ the mic two inches from my ears. “Who stole the soul?” he would yell time and time again, and finally, in this scenario, I would jump up and say, “Brother! No one stole the soul. It was just misplaced for awhile, but I know who found it. Th
More >
Ripple News/Review - Neil Finn and 7 Worlds Collide Rock for Charity
-
Artist:
-
Album:She Came Out
Now, I don't know if I'd call myself a Finn brothers groupie or not, but I'll tell you, ever since the day that I first heard "Poor Boy," off of the Split Enz True Colours album, I've picked up just about everything that Neil or Tim, or Neil and Tim, have ever done. And truth be told, rarely have the Finn brothers let me down. With an uncanny knack for a melody, and golden-soaked voices, the ...
More >
Jethro Tull - Live at Madison Square Garden 1978
-
Artist:
-
Album:
If Genesis was music for art school aristocrats, Yes for classical music purists and ELP for fans of pomp in all its bombastic glory, then Jethro Tull was prog rock for the everyman.Maybe it's the band's genesis as a working blues band that makes them seem so approachable compared to those other bands, or simply the band's raving medieval persona. Either way, Jethro Tull isn't prog rock for th...
More >
A Sunday Conversation with Poison Tree Records
Continuing on with our series of interviews with the people who bring us the music.How did you get started running an independent record label?I have been a musician my whole life. Since I was young, I always thought it would be cool to have a small label. I looked up to the likes of SubPop (when they were indie;)What motivated you? Did you tap into a particular local scene or were you aiming...
More >
Ripple News- A Free CD Giveaway
We'd threatened we were going to do it, and just like an upcoming Presidential election, we always deliver what we promise. Wait, I mean unlike a Presidential election . . oh never mind.But since it's Halloween, we thought we'd give you your own little treat. You don't even have to do a trick to get it.Here's the story. Once a month, we pick a name randomly from our ever-growing list of wav...
More >
Field Report - Petty Crux @ The Dakota Lounge - Santa Monica
-
Artist:Petty Crux
It’s no secret that Petty Crux are a Ripple favorite, so it should really come as no surprise that when we received an invitation to catch the band,s first live performance, with their new members in tow, that a Ripple representative would be in attendance. Little did I know that it was going to be lil’ ole me! After all, it was Racer who first heard their album All That Survived The Crash and
More >
Protometal Report - The Stooges – You Want My Action, Live 1971
-
Artist:The Stooges
Most fans of The Stooges are completely unaware of this era of the band. Everyone knows that Ron Asheton played guitar on the first 2 Stooges albums from 1969 and 1970 and switched to bass for the Raw Power era from 1972 until the end of the band in early 1974. But what a lot of people don’t know is that both Ron and James Williamson played guitar in the band during 1971.Ron asked former roadie.
More >
Mining for Gold - Discoveries Across the World Wide Web
-
Artist:
Yes, we live in an interesting world. Wonder what a visionary like Jules Verne or H.G. Wells would say if they saw the plugged in, fiber optic-linked, satellite-fed world we live in today. Would the visionary of the Fax machine and the submarine be impressed? Would the predictor of alien technology stare gape-mouthed?A while back, I was asked to write an article on how the internet was influ...
More >
The Single Life - Another 7 inches of Fun
-
Artist:The Garage Gods
-
Track:Had Enough of Your Lies
Mighty High - Drops a Deuce - Cable TV Eye b/w Hands Up! (live n nasty)There's no doubt about it. Mighty High really is Brooklyn's most "regressive rock act." Draped by some of the most mind-blowing R. Crumb style artwork imaginable (courtesy of Wayne Braino Bjerke) Mighty High really do drop a deuce onto an unsuspecting, slightly horrified public with this amplified, hellified, fuzzified bli...
More >
Dala - Everyone Is Someone
-
Artist:
-
Album:
I’m not exactly sure what I was expecting when I dug this disc out of the pile of submissions that’s seemingly growing by its own volition next to my desk. I vaguely remember seeing the cover of this Dala album as I popped the disc from its housing, and knowing my mindset, I’m almost certain that I was filing this one into some sort of inspirational ambient trance vocal category. Well, it is
More >
A Sunday Conversation with Killing Lazarus
Recorded on a simple 8 track recorder, the Killing Lazarus self titled mini epic thrilled the Ripple offices with its multi-faceted themes and emotions. It may have toiled in the pile of submissions for longer than I would have liked, but it ultimately struck such a chord with us that we had to pursue the masterminds behind the music. So, this week, we got the opportunity to sit with the lads o...
More >
Ripple News - Fountains of Wayne, The Posies, Syd Straw and the Smashing Pumpkins Benefit Concert
One of the things we like best about being part of this biz, is when we realize that a lot of the artists we love, are actually just real people. People who care about others. Work hard to help each other. That's certainly the case here.Dozens of musicians will perform a benefit concert Sunday November 8 at the Echoplex in Echo Park for fellow musician Laura Ann Masura. Masura, a former memb...
More >
Kamchatka - Volume III
-
Artist:
-
Album:Volume III
It doesn't take more than one second of this dynamite new release by retro-seventies rockers, Kamchatka, before you feel it. Listen to that low rumble of bass approaching, thudding towards you like an approaching seismic event. Feel it carrying something heavy in it's momentum. Something ominous.Something groovy.When the words "retro-seventies" rock are bandied about, it's usually followed by...
More >
Two from Southern Lord - Black Cobra and Eagle Twin
-
Artist:
-
Album:
Black Cobra – ChronomegaEagle Twin - The Unkindness of CrowsBlack Cobra is an extremely heavy duo from San Francisco and they are pissed! Chronomega is their 3rd full length album and first on the Southern Lord label. If you’re new to the band, like me, get ready for an intense assault of down tuned guitar and thrashing drums with aggravated vocals.Unlike a lot of bands on Southern Lord, Black
More >
Steve McLeod - Human Uniform
-
Artist:Steve McLeod
-
Album:Human Uniform
Who in the heck is Steve McLeod? At least, that’s what I’m assuming most of you are asking yourselves. I know. I asked the same thing when this disc slid across my desk. In fact, even after running through this brilliantly realized musical opus, I’m still asking that question. Who the heck is Steve McLeod? Well, there’s no simple answer to that one, Waveriders, but there is one word that c
More >
Ripple News - Ray Davies New Album - The Kinks Choral Collection
-
Artist:
-
Album:
Another nifty little Ripple tidbit here. Ray Davies, the legendary lead singer of the Kinks, long one of our favorite bands, has a new project coming to disc soon.The Kings Choral Collection presents new versions of classics such as "You Really Got Me", "All Day And All Of The Night", "Waterloo Sunset" and many more, all featuring the 65 member Crouch End Festival Chorus.Choral Kinks. How coo...
More >
Rammstein - Leibe Ist Fur Alle Da
-
Artist:
-
Album:Leibe Ist Fur Alle Da
No doubt about it. This is it.Anyone who, like myself, fell under that absolutely brutal spell that was the Gothic industrial masterpiece of Sehnsucht knows what I'm talking about. I first heard that album at a listening station at the now defunct Tower Records. It didn't take more than a minute of the opening title track and a few seconds of the following track "Engel" to know that I was h...
More >
A Sunday Conversation with Fen
-
Artist:
-
Album:
In recent months, Fen have achieved the closest thing to the induction into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame that we have to offer here at The Ripple Effect. The bands 2006 release, entitled Congenital Fixation, has found permanent residence within the hallowed confines of the Pope's Mobile and we could think of no other band that we'd rather spend this particular Sunday morning with. Join us as w...
More >
