The Pope and I just can't get over how extremely cool this is.The chance to see two major pioneers of powerpop, shedding the amps, and playing a series of intimate, acoustic, living room show in your own fricking living room just doesn't come around everyday. These two cats shouldn't need any introduction. Paul Collins (along with Peter Case in the Nerves, and then in his own band The Beat) a...
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With the busy, hectic lives we lead, I've learned to totally appreciate traffic. Yep, that may sound crazy, but with all my dashing around from place to place, all the Ripple business in the works, all the rushing, traffic offers me an opportunity (forced opportunity) to slow down, take my foot off the gas (literally) and just chill. Turns out that time in my car is also my best time for list...
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New York progressive metal veterans Dream Theater will take their PROGRESSIVE NATION tour overseas for the first time with a run through Europe and the UK throughout Sept, Oct and Nov 2009.PROGRESSIVE NATION founder and mastermind, Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy, once again hand-picked the bands based on musicianship, originality and diversity…not necessarily by popularity and marquee value.
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This installment of the Monday Morning Metal Report has about all of the subtlety of a herd of bulls running down the cobblestone streets of Pamplona, Spain in the middle of spring. Oh yes, my friends, chaos ensues and bodies are thrown about like rag dolls or gored within inches of a lifetime of singing in those higher registers. But, that is the way of metal. The more ferocious, the more evil...
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It only took one moment for our esteemed colleague to become enamored with the psychedelic vibe of Strawberry Fields and only a few more for him to turn on the rest of the Ripple office. Joining us all the way from Poland, Wojtek Szadkowski, takes his place on the Ripple red leather couch and educates us on the world of Strawberry Fields.When I was a kid, growing up in a house with Cat Steven...
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Continuing on with our celebration of all things Woodstock on this 40th anniversary weekend, we come up to the next disc in line in this great collection of Woodstock reissues.Janis Joplin - The Woodstock ExperienceJanis Joplin had just left Big Brother when she took the stage at Woodstock. Delayed by ten hours before her band finally had a chance to perform, it's instantly clear why Janis wa...
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Continuing on with our celebration of all things Woodstock on this 40th anniversary, today we have another review from the Woodstock Experience series. Tune in tomorrow for another review and a chance to win some of these CD's for your own collection.Santana - The Woodstock ExperienceI missed out on the original Woodstock Festival in 1969 by a few years, but the festival has affected me to deg...
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Sly & The Family Stone - The Woodstock ExperienceIt’s pretty safe to say that just about everyone at Woodstock was high, but I don’t think anyone was higher than Sly Stone on Sunday August 17, 1969. That includes Jimi and Jerry “Captain Trips” Garcia. Sly was riding high on the charts with the incredible Stand! album and was starting to get really carried away with cocaine and his ego.List
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Holy Mother of Spit! I’ve got this great idea. Let’s take three musicians with backgrounds so far away from each other, put them in a room, feed them a steady diet of negative energy from the likes of CNN, and see what happens. It’s already been done? They call themselves Nihilitia? Huh. Again, I’m late to my own party. Waveriders, I have a dandy release here for you and I’m pretty damn
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The concept of the Musical Martyrs series, was to identify albums in a band's cannon that routinely draw the ire or disdain of fans and critics, when in reality, the albums have a tremendous amount to offer. Every band has their bad albums, but that's not what we're writing about. We're writing about albums that stand strong amongst the band's catalog, but for some reason (often a minor fan ...
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We get tons of great music hauled in through the Ripple doors by our fearless postman, Sal, bt rarely does an album come through that captures our imaginations, hearts and boogie-ready rear ends the way Black Bone Child's debut did. A devastating aggression of two-man blues, rock, and swagger. After listening to the disc a few times, Pope and I didn't just like this band, we wanted to BE this...
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Without a doubt, Echo and the Bunnymen's Crocodiles is one of the all-time classic albums of the '80's post punk explosion, so we at the Ripple are thrilled with what we've just learned. Echo and the Bunnymen have announced an October 12 release date for their new album The Fountain. Look for the first single, "I Think I Need to Know," on September 28.The Fountain is their first release of ne...
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Deep in the swirling space dust and astral residue of some galaxy a billion light years away, a group of cosmic adventurers drift to undiscovered lands in search of some undisclosed treasure. Armed with their grit and their wit, the interstellar warriors of Arcturus face the constant danger of their vessel breaking down between space ports or being overrun by their own boredom in a world of wei...
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There's a hot new band currently tearing things up around the LA area that goes by the name of Dialtone. Described as Bryan Ferry from Roxy Music singing with The Pixies or Franz Ferdinand if they were a grunge band. We've got a review of their debut album coming up soon, but in the meantime, we've got a fun Dialtone Contest for you.True to their name, Dialtone are making it possible for you...
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In recent months it seems that there’s been a bit of a movement, conscious or not, of music being produced that has been steeped in the finest brews of the past, yet at the same time, music that’s brimming with a modern flair and sensibility. Now, I have no idea if the following artists have any intention on changing the complexion of the musical landscape by fusing the sounds of two eras toge
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Storming into the Ripple office on the back of the Winston's Zen tsunami, The Torrents flooded us with their amped up Jam-ed up version of britrock. Melodic as hell, catchy as the flu virus, and more powerful than a cup of The Pope's morning java, these cats made an impression. With no expense to be spared, we flew Neal, guitarist/vocalist and all around good guy, in to join us on our red lea...
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