Ted Garber - American Rail
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Artist:Ted Garber
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Album:American Rail
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The Accused – The Curse of Martha Splatterhead
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There’s really only one way to describe The Accused – sick. That’s the way it’s been since 1981 when guitarist Tommy Niemeyer formed the band with his perverted friends in Oak Harbor, Washington. The Accused has always been a band that you either love or hate. Most hate, but those who love do it with a heart full of gore. Too metal for punk, too punk for metal, The Accused sound is fast an
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Sienna Root - A New Day Dawning
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The act of distillation is to extract the essence of something, condensing it down to its most pure state. When referring to whiskey, the distillation is done in a big pot and Scotch whiskey is distilled twice, producing an end result that is pure and smooth. The Irish go for three runs of distillation, creating something that achieves perfection.When referring to riff-massive, huge '70's ro...
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Ripple News - Buffalo Is Gone - The Passing of Norton Buffalo
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It was 1976 when the Steve Miller Band played the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on the Fly Like An Eagle tour. A thin-framed, long-haired apparition, with no discernible instrument, stepped to the forefront, pulled out a mouth harp and blew a hypnotic soulful rendition of "Mercury Blues." It wasn’t Steve Miller that hooked me on the Steve Miller Band – it was Norton Buffalo. Steve Miller call
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John Frazier and the 8 Year Olds – Boogieman
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Generally, I tend to like weird. By weird, I simply mean something that’s different than the status quo or something with a unique twist on the usual. That’s what weird is, right? Outlandish and bizarre is a whole separate category and I can get into that in later reviews. But for now, let’s discuss John Frazier and the 8 Year Olds. This band, for all intents and purposes, is weird . . . wei
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An Electrifying, Eclectic Edifice of Ebullient EP's
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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...
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The Pimps of Joytime - High Steppin'
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Artist:The Pimps of Joytime
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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
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A Sunday Conversation with Poison Tree Records
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Artist:Ashbury Haights
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...
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Field Report - Petty Crux @ The Dakota Lounge - Santa Monica
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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
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Protometal Report - The Stooges – You Want My Action, Live 1971
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Artist:The Stooges
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Mining for Gold - Discoveries Across the World Wide Web
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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...
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The Single Life - Another 7 inches of Fun
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Artist:The Garage Gods
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Track:Had Enough of Your Lies
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Dala - Everyone Is Someone
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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
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