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• Die Kreuzen - October File

  • Sep 28, 2009 | 8:25am
  • The same year that Metallica was releasing their ground breaking album Master of Puppets, there was a little ole band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who released a disc that latched onto my heart like one of them face sucking bastards from the Alien series. The band is called Die Kreuzen, and maybe you’ve heard of them. Then again, maybe you haven’t. Back in the day, they were never one of those bands that sat at the tip of everyone’s tongue, but they were influential to a varying degree to a number of avant metal and grunge-era bands. How I stumbled on October File is beyond me. I’ve always been pretty adventurous with my musical finds, so I’m not terribly surprised that this album found its way into my life. I just don’t actually remember the act of purchasing said album like I do so many of the other essential albums in my collection. I don’t remember how I met my wife either, but that’s another story for another time.
    
    more . . . http://www.redgage.com/blogs/TheRippleEffect#rf:/blogs/therippleeffect/die-kreuzen--october-file.html
  
  

• A Sunday Conversation with Bad Afro Records

  • Sep 27, 2009 | 8:34am
  • As a slight diversion from our normal fun-filled Sunday mornings chatting with bands here at the Ripple office, we're going to spend the next few weeks digging deep into the world of the independent labels. We're going to lift up the hood and check into the brains of the cats who sacrifice their lives to put out the music they love. Risking financial losses, changing marketplaces, technological evolution, and a downturning economy, we at the Ripple want to raise a beer mug in salute to the indy Labels who continue to supply the world with fresh music.
    
    Along those lines, we spoke recently with the main man at Dead Beat Records, today we're turning our eyes across the Atlantic to Scandinavia, the world of all things music and hockey. Specifically, we popped over to Denmark. There, we stopped by the office of Bad Afro Records and had a sit down with their resident creative force, Lars, and the legacy of indy music he's helped to create.
    
    more . . . http://www.redgage.com/blogs/TheRippleEffect/a-sunday-conversation-with-bad-afro-records.html
  
  

• Musical Martyrs - The Vilified Albums - Black Sabbath - Born Again

  • Sep 24, 2009 | 7:33am
  • Everyone loves Black Sabbath.
    
    A lot of people only like the Ozzy era while some prefer Dio. Then there are the freaks who love this album. I am a combination of all three. It’s probably because I love Tony Iommi’s guitar playing so much, but I really do enjoy just about everything by Sabbath from 1970 to 1983. Volume 4 might be my all time favorite, Technical Ecstasy is my least favorite and I think Never Say Die is extremely underrated. Born Again is not a classic album, or even a great one, but it does have some truly great moments. It also has some pretty lame ones, too.
    
    more . . . http://www.redgage.com/blogs/TheRippleEffect/musical-martyrs--the-vilified-albums--black-sabbath--born-again.html
  
  

• Oceansize – Frames

  • Sep 23, 2009 | 8:14am
  • You like prog-rock?
    
    Personally, I tread very carefully on the frozen lake that is prog-rock. Some forms of the genre are my absolute favorite discs of all time, and I feel like I could safely cut a hole in the ice and fish to my heart’s content. Other forms . . . ach! That was the sound of me crashing through the thin layer of ice and suffering, once again, from a severe case of hypothermia. All I’ve ever asked of my music is that it have some soul, some element of spirit that flows from the musicians, through the speakers and then to me so that I’m inspired to do something . . . anything! Well, Oceansize has done just that with their latest epic outing entitled Frames. Epic outing? Yes. Absolutely. Read on, friends.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/oceansize-frames.html
  
  

• A Sunday Conversation with Gala

  • Sep 20, 2009 | 9:29am
  • Fusing 70's and 80's pop rock sensibilities with a modern vibe, Gala dropped a fiesty and fierce piece of pop perfection on my desk with Tough Love. We were able to coerce the lovely and talented Gala Rizzatto to break away from tearing up the stage and breaking young boys hearts just long enough to take a breather on the Ripple Red Leather Interview Couch. Find out what made Gala decide to become a musician, how she tackles songwriting, and what keeps her focused on success in an industry that is notorious for chewing up the weak.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/sunday-conversation-with-gala.html
  
  

• Field Report - Stone Axe and Sun Gods in Exile Invade Brooklyn 9/04/09

  • Sep 17, 2009 | 8:02am
  • 
    It was an evening of regressive rock in Brooklyn. That means lots of dudes drinking lots of beer talking about speaker cabinets and the women who put up with them. Brooklyn was one of the few east coast cities lucky enough to get a show from the Stone Axe/Sun Gods In Exile tour in preparation for the final Stoner Hands Of Doom festival in Maryland over Labor Day weekend. The show took place at the Charleston on Bedford Avenue in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. In case you don’t know, this is ground zero for ridiculous hipster trends and the trust fund sheep that follow them.
    
    more . . . http://www.redgage.com/blogs/TheRippleEffect/field-report--stone-axe-and-sun-gods-in-exile-invade-brooklyn-9/04/09.html
  
  

• Ernie Halter – Live

  • Sep 14, 2009 | 7:15am
  • For years, Racer and I have waxed on (and off) about the splendors of music in a live setting. After all, the live setting is the most natural way to catch a musician bearing his or her soul. On a good night, that soul will be felt with the heat of a thousand suns and will have a lingering affect on how you listen to music for years to come. Capturing these momentous occasions can be like capturing the proverbially lightening in a bottle. Musicians have their off nights. They’re bound to err a time or two in their performances, and you know what? That’s okay too. Just don’t release those performances to the unsuspecting fans! For me, a live release needs to show the artist not just playing the songs that I expect to hear, but to perform them with a different nuance than that which was recorded in the studio. I want to hear the voice quiver a little, but not completely break down to the point of shit. I want to hear a different drum fill or a change up in the intro to my favorite jam. Speaking of jam, I’m not opposed to an extended jam in the middle of a tune that turns into a medley of classic rock tunes. Basically, give me the structure of the songs that I know and love and add some flavor to them. A little nuance. Some people might even call it soul.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/ernie-halter-live.html
  
  

• A Sunday Conversation with Dali's Lama

  • Sep 13, 2009 | 8:38am
  • Riff mad, fuzz-crazed stoner madness from the inner desert of California, Dali's Lama have been plying their trade amongst the sand, stone, and scorpions and releasing blistering rock like their last album, Full On Dunes. After melting our eardrums with their riffing, we asked the quarted of Zack Huskey (guitars/vocals), Erica Huskey (bass), Jeff Howe (drums), and Joe Dillon (guitar) to squeeze next to each other as tightly as the could and join us on the red leather Ripple interview couch. Here's what they had to say.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/sunday-conversation-with-dalis-lama.html
  
  

• Ripples Around the World - A Night in Africa - Amadou & Mariam and Aphrodesia

  • Sep 11, 2009 | 7:58am
  • My love affair with African music began one summer night, after a beach party in San Diego where some (once) legal substances were ingested with a group of friends amongst the crashing waves of the Pacific. Back at a friend’s house, he introduced me to my first African sampling, King Sunny Ade’s Synchro System, and I was instantly transported to a nether realm of rhythm and texture, a place I’d never been before. Mesmerized by the undulating guitars interplaying with the talking drums, I was hooked. One thing led to another and soon King Sunny was joined by Fela, Toure Kunda, and Mory Kante in my musical my world.
    
    Now I won’t pretend to be an expert on all the African genres, instruments, and styles, (I don’t even know the proper words used to describe these styles) but I do know my juju from my Zouk, my Afropop from my Soweto jive. And I also know what I like. I’ve seen tons of great concerts in my life, but let me tell you, nothing compares to being on the floor when King Sunny or Toure Kunda are conjuring their magic onstage. Swirling bodies, lost in the rhythms, fuse and meld into one swaying mass of joy-filled, dancing humanity. It’s the closest feeling to complete freedom that music has ever provided me.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/ripples-around-world-night-in-africa.html
  
  

• Subhumans - Classic Punk Re-issues

  • Sep 10, 2009 | 8:40am
  • Always being a fan of punk, particularly classic U.K. punk, we got pretty frothy at the mouth when we received a smoldering package of classic Subhumans re-issues for our overworked postman Sal. Digging in, we were greeted to six beautifully designed, lovingly created homages to a lost punk legend. Barely giving time for the drool to dry on the corners of our mouths, we got the discs into the quivering hands of our reviewers. Our esteemed punk-meister Woody responded first with his thoughts on three of the discs. Here's Woody . . .
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/subhumans-classic-punk-re-issues.html
  
  

• Fen - Congenital Fixation

  • Sep 9, 2009 | 8:10am
  • Nobody loves a musical freak out more than me. When a band comes along and throws some off time, bone rattlin’ into a mix of razor sharp guitars, thick low end grooves and manically majestic vocals, well . . . odds are, you’re gonna’ get my attention. Make the whole thing sound crisp with an experienced knob twirler or a sound engineer who calibrates his own microphones for giggles, oh boy . . . my pulse is increasing. Take all of the elements of experimentation and confine those same elements into a concise capsule of time to eliminate senseless noodling, exceeding five minutes only on the rare occasion . . . uh oh, the sweat is starting to bead up on my forehead. Make the songs dark little epics that let the imagination go wild and inspire one to pick up an instrument for their own artistic creation . . . if you haven’t called the paramedics by now, I really wish you would. I’m gonna’ be in need of medical attention in about five minutes. Thank you.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/fen-congenital-fixation.html
  
  

• Flashback to Tomorrow - Shark Speed and Erase.Release

  • Sep 7, 2009 | 4:27pm
  • Last month, my esteemed Ripple colleague, the Pope, started a new column titled "Flashback to Tomorrow," to drop some praise on a couple of bands that were bringing familiar sounds from the past kicking and screaming into the present day. Loving the idea, I decided to jump on board with two more bands, steeped in the sensibilities of days of yore, but updated with a modern edge for 2009.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/flashback-to-tomorrow-shark-speed-and.html
  
  

• Killing Lazarus - S/T

  • Sep 4, 2009 | 7:58am
  • Don’t you love it when music does that special something like evoke an emotion, whether by calling up a memory or hitting a nerve that causes reflection? I mean, isn’t that really the whole point of the art.
    
    
    Back in May’s edition of Rumors Heard in MySpace, I wrote about an Irish band that we stumbled on called Killing Lazarus and I described the music that they had posted on their site. In the weeks that followed that posting, the band was kind enough to send a completed copy of self titled disc and the thing has gradually become part of my being. Sure, all of the songs are posted on their MySpace page, but I find it a complete and utter nuisance to lug my PC with me in the car or on a backpacking excursion just to listen to the music. The extension cord alone makes it impractical. To really grasp the depth, and breadth, and whole wonderful scope of the music, I needed to have a physical copy of the disc to pop in and out of the CD player. It’s quirky and old school of me, I know . . . but it’s how I operate. But this isn’t about me. The whole point of this post is to talk about the music . . . the subtle complexities, the artistic expressions, and the soulful creativity behind seven songs that very easily could have been lost amongst the billions of cyber songs streaming across the internet.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/killing-lazarus-st.html
  
  

• From the Depths of Electric Earth

  • Sep 3, 2009 | 8:50am
  • I knew there was something wrong when I came home from work the other night. Why was the postman still in front of my apartment building at 6PM? Why was he clutching his lower back and cursing my front door? The Ripple return address on the package on my doorstep couldn’t have anything to do with it, could it? I pushed the exhausted mailman aside and tried to lift the package but could not. I got a neighbor to help me lift the small yellow mailer into my pad. The cats ran away in fright and the baby started wailing. I couldn’t believe that the postage was almost $3000. What the hell was in this thing? My wife said she smelled something horrible. I grabbed a cleaver and opened carefully. Three advance CD’s came crashing to the floor. I checked the paperwork – Electric Earth Records. That explained everything. Electric Earth only puts out the heaviest shit imaginable.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/from-depths-of-electric-earth.html
  
  

• Proto-metal Report - Poobah - Steamroller

  • Sep 2, 2009 | 6:02am
  • One of the things I love most about the early period of metal, was the electrifying energy and passion that these bands poured into their craft. Most of these bands were nearly D.I.Y in their ethic, pumping out dark and heavy music that was shunned by radio as if it carried disease. Few fans lined up to greet these bands, yet they kept on coming, one after another; Sir Lord Baltimore, Bang, Hairy Chapter. The list seems to be endless as new bands, like my discovery of Iron Claw, keep popping back into the public consciousness.
    
    And then there's Poobah. During the early '70's, Poobah and their resident madman guitar wizard Jim Gustafson put out three molten platters of guitar-fired, sizzling metal and roll. With guitar solos shooting off the vinyl like lasers bouncing around the Planetarium, Poobah mined their own devastated wasteland of early searing metal. Most of those albums, long out of print, can be found for hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars at collectors stores. A while back, some were re-released by a company that long ago went out of business, leaving those discs about as obscure as the originals. Time passes, and even though Poobah continues to rock out monsterous psychedelic guitar histrionics to this day, those older classics just continue to fade away, deeper and deeper into the recesses of the past.
    
    Then along comes Rockadrome.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/proto-metal-report-poobah-steamroller.html
  
  

• Proto-metal Report - Poobah - Steamroller

  • Sep 2, 2009 | 6:02am
  • One of the things I love most about the early period of metal, was the electrifying energy and passion that these bands poured into their craft. Most of these bands were nearly D.I.Y in their ethic, pumping out dark and heavy music that was shunned by radio as if it carried disease. Few fans lined up to greet these bands, yet they kept on coming, one after another; Sir Lord Baltimore, Bang, Hairy Chapter. The list seems to be endless as new bands, like my discovery of Iron Claw, keep popping back into the public consciousness.
    
    And then there's Poobah. During the early '70's, Poobah and their resident madman guitar wizard Jim Gustafson put out three molten platters of guitar-fired, sizzling metal and roll. With guitar solos shooting off the vinyl like lasers bouncing around the Planetarium, Poobah mined their own devastated wasteland of early searing metal. Most of those albums, long out of print, can be found for hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars at collectors stores. A while back, some were re-released by a company that long ago went out of business, leaving those discs about as obscure as the originals. Time passes, and even though Poobah continues to rock out monsterous psychedelic guitar histrionics to this day, those older classics just continue to fade away, deeper and deeper into the recesses of the past.
    
    Then along comes Rockadrome.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/proto-metal-report-poobah-steamroller.html
  
  

• Rumors Heard in MySpace, Vol. II, Episode 8

  • Aug 31, 2009 | 8:55am
  • Happy end of August, Waveriders! The kids are getting their fresh new haircuts and being prepped for the return to school, the summer nights are a little more chilled, big men in pads and leotards are chasing around other men holding an oblong object of sorts, all of these events just leading to autumn. Sigh . . . that means hockey season is right around the corner. You can’t see my smile right now, but ever see a picture of the Cheshire Cat? Yeah. I think you’re getting the picture. Anyway, I digress once again. This has been a super quality month in music and I’m pleased to pass on the word to y’all. We’ve got rock, we’ve got vocal performances, we’ve got metal, we’ve got acoustic music. In essence, we have it all. As always, if you’ve already heard of the bands, great! Go tell a friend. If you haven’t, sit back and read up on ‘em here, then swing by their MySpace pages (I’ve included links,) and then . . . go tell a friend.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/rumors-heard-in-myspace-vol-ii-episode.html
  
  

• Grand Atlantic - How We Survive

  • Aug 28, 2009 | 7:39am
  • Sometimes you just know.
    
    It doesn't take more than a second. An instant. One note, one beat, or in this instant one mutated guitar tone exploding into a spectacle of crashing chords and resounding bass. That's all it took for me to know.
    
    Grand Atlantic have produced one of my favorite albums of year.
    
    Coming from Brisbane, Grand Atlantic molds the psychedelic post-punk ethereal moods of their countrymen, The Church, with the shoegazing swirling madbeat of The Stone Roses, and toss in a touch of garage crunch a la Ripple favorites The Thieves just for kicks.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/grand-atlantic-how-we-survive.html
  
  

• Dozer - Beyond Colossal

  • Aug 27, 2009 | 7:39am
  • Dozer’s been around for about 14 years but I never paid any attention to them. Probably because Killdozer is one of my favorite bands I figured that just plain Dozer couldn’t match the herculean efforts of the Madison mad men. Turns out that was a dopey move on my part. Dozer’s 2008 album Beyond Colossal lives up to the title and makes them worthy to share the second syllable of Killdozer’s potent name.
    
    Hailing from Sweden, Dozer sound like if Union Carbide Productions worshipped Pentagram and early Alice Cooper instead of The Stooges and MC5. In reading some other reviews of this album I was surprised to see the band compared to Clutch, Fu Manchu and Kyuss. There’s definite similarities with those bands, but Dozer has a much darker and original sound. Maybe their past records are more generic, but Beyond Colossal offers a refreshing change of pace from the usual 3rd rate Black Sabbath rip offs usually found in the derivative “stoner rock” genre.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/dozer-beyond-colossal.html
  
  

• Ektomorf - What Doesn't Kill Me

  • Aug 26, 2009 | 10:27am
  • Wednesday, August 26, 2009
    Ektomorf - What Doesn't Kill Me
    Y’know, there’s that fine line with angst ridden metal.
    
    On one side of this line, it can be insipid, self gratifying, meathead music. On the other side, it can actually be honest, vibrant, and a snapshot of one’s mental anguish over deeds done wrong. From that line, the drop to negative is an incredibly steep drop to the bowels of derisive mockery. The reward from walking this treacherous, corpse ridden line is that those who survive and do it right, come out with a product that can excite and inspire all who believe in it. A Hungarian bunch figured out the proper steps along the path. They call themselves Ektomorf, and to be honest, I wasn’t expecting too much from this offering (I’ve been feeling negative with submissions of late.) What I got when I dropped the needle on the record was an overwhelming sense that these guys were pissed off about something and I too suddenly wanted to run amok and break shit. What has come over me? I’ve heard angst-y music before and most times I find myself thinking, “Really? Is it all that bad?” With Ektomorf, I finally felt the angst that these other bands so fruitlessly tried to pass off. I felt the bitter resentment of physical, mental, and emotional persecution. I felt the pain, and the hatred, and the violent need to react with force. What Doesn’t Kill Me is a cathartic release of demons that possessed a group of guys from a small, impoverished nation, and frankly, I’m buying what they’re selling.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/ektomorf-what-doesnt-kill-me.html
  
  

• Garage Rock Mania! - Lost in Tyme Fanzine CD and the Debut 7" from The Royal Hangmen

  • Aug 24, 2009 | 8:08am
  • We've got a special twofer going with today's post, but the intentions are the same; to alert all you waveriding fans of classic, vox organ-tinged, maximally fuzzed out 60's garage rock and roll of the hottest thing going on in the genre you love.
    
    If the descriptions in that last sentence appeal to you at all, or if names like The Sonics, The Standells, The Electric Prunes, The Kinks, The Seeds, or the Animals get your blood going, and you've been dying to learn more about what's happening these days in the Garage Rock scene, then I've got just the thing for you.
    
    Coming from the garage rock captial of . . . Greece . . . Lost in Tyme is a mini-media empire in the budding that you need to acquaint yourselves with. What originally started out as a garage rock fanzine in 2004, rightly became much more with the introduction of Lost In Tyme Records, a vehicle for LIT mainman, Peris, to bring to vinyl all the classic garage rock that bleeds through his veins. Previously, we'd written about the classic 7" platter served up by LIT's Garage Gods; today we're going to take a little deeper look into the musty garage that Lost in Tyme calls home.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/garage-rock-mania-lost-in-tyme-fanzine.html
  
  

• A Sunday Conversation with Sound & Shape

  • Aug 23, 2009 | 8:50am
  • Complex. Melodic. Virutostic. Compelling. Just a few words that could be bandied about when describing the intensely cool new band, Sound&Shape. Squeezing the band onto the Ripple red leather couch, we asked guitarist/singer Ryan Caudle and drummer Jerry Pentecost to fill us in on what makes the band tick.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/sunday-conversation-with-sound-shape.html
  
  

• 1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame

  • Aug 21, 2009 | 7:55am
  • Wrapping up our week from Candlelight Records, we’re proud to shine the spotlight on one of the darkest, most imposing discs to leave scorch marks of Hades flames across my desk. 1349’s Revelations of the Black Flame has stirred up some controversy in the realm of black metal, though I can’t quite comprehend it. Revelations is, to my ears, black metal perfection in the way of Enslaved’s classic Below the Lights. Every song adds something new, intrigue in dynamics, and the album as a whole doesn’t relegate itself to being limited to a genre’s definition. Don’t get me wrong. This is a brutally dark and sinister slab of molten black metal, but these guys have taken this desolate form of expression and added layers upon layers of nuance to the music. So much so, that the whole thing becomes a compelling and addictive listen. I had read bits about 1349 for a few years and naturally, my curiosity was peaked. I was fully expecting the blackened screech of a thousand tortured souls to greet me as I dropped the needle on the record, and in so many ways, that did happen. However, there was more to the experience. While listening to Revelations, I never expected that I would spend the next hour with my jaw firmly nestled in the fibers of my carpet.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/1349-revelations-of-black-flame.html
  
  

• Tia Carrera - The Quintessential

  • Aug 20, 2009 | 8:09am
  • Back in September 1968, Jimi Hendrix was touring the US West Coast with The Soft Machine and Eire Apparent. Vanilla Fudge’s mafioso managers thought they should also be that tour. An offer was made that could not be refused and The Fudge was on the bill. Carmine Appice has told many stories of all the times he played with Jimi and Fudge bassist Tim Bogart at soundchecks and late night jam sessions. No tapes of these mythical jams have surfaced, but the new album from Tia Carrerra called The Quintessential would probably fool most people if you told them it was.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/tia-carrera-quintessential.html
  
  

• A Ripple Road Trip

  • Aug 19, 2009 | 1:59pm
  • 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 listening to music. With the world shut out and my cellphone comfortably out of reach, I can insulate myself in my mobile man cave and spin discs to my heart's content.
    
    So with that introduction, let's see what eclectic mix is spinning on the Ripple convertible Ghia's player today.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/ripple-road-trip.html
  
  

• Monday Morning Metal Report: Candlelight Records

  • Aug 17, 2009 | 8:46am
  • 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, the more gruesome, well . . . all the better, and the guys at Candlelight Records have provided us with all the metal necessary to chase the work week blues away. Take any of the next three albums, throw ‘em into your sound system of choice, and prepare to obliterate the senses of all those within a twenty foot radius of you. We’re putting all the coffee shops out of business this morning coz’ no coffee will be needed. If this stuff doesn’t get the blood flowing, then you’re too far past dead for help.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/monday-morning-metal-report-candlelight.html
  
  

• A Sunday Conversation with Strawberry Fields

  • Aug 16, 2009 | 9:09am
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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 Stevens, Neil Diamond, and Simon and Garfunkle, the first time I ever heard Kiss's "Detroit Rock City," it was a moment of musical epiphany. It was just so vicious, aggressive and mean. It changed the way I listened to music. I've had a few minor epiphany's since then, when you come across a band that just brings something new and revolutionary to your ears. What have been your musical epiphany moments?
    
    
    The Beatles. Listening to them and watching them and their attitude towards life – all this changed me forever. I learned how to be a rebel in a more creative and intelligent way than crashing windows on the street. King Crimson – and the song "The Court Of The Crimson King." I was crying and shaking while listening to it. Could not stop tears running from my eyes. God, this feeling was so intense it almost hurt. And the song "I'd Love to change the world (ten Years after) – I heard it on the radio just after the info about John Lennon's death. I recorded this song on both sides of my tape and played it over and over. This was the only song recorded on this 60 min long tape.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/sunday-conversation-with-strawberry.html
  
  

• Santana - The Woodstock Experience

  • Aug 14, 2009 | 6:55am
  • 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 Experience
    
    I missed out on the original Woodstock Festival in 1969 by a few years, but the festival has affected me to degrees that never really hit me until recently. Obviously, the music from the festival has touched the lives of millions of people since the summer of 1969, as have the continued works from the various musicians. But, I think, what’s had a greater impact on me has been that musical barriers were knocked over by the soul force of the movement. Sharing the stage on this glorious weekend was the folk-y acoustic rock sounds of CSN with Neil Young, the full on spiritual folk work of Richie Havens, the harder rockin’ edge of Jimi Hendrix, the soulful sounds of Sly and the Family Stone; The Who, Mountain, CCR, The Grateful Dead . . . oh, the list goes on! The music encompassed all genres, regardless of style; oblivious to agenda, all meant to unify a group of people, a nation to peace through music. Amongst those performing the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was the great Carlos Santana, who put on a legendary performance that was captured for our ears to enjoy today. Santana: The Woodstock Experience is just that, an experience.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/santana-woodstock-experience.html
  
  

• Woodstock 40th Anniversary - Sly and The Family Stone and Johnny Winter 2 CD sets

  • Aug 13, 2009 | 8:16am
  • Sly & The Family Stone - The Woodstock Experience
    
    It’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.
    
    Listening to the full performance of Sly & The Family Stone’s full set from Woodstock, it’s easy to see why he got so nuts. Here’s a band at their peak kicking ass at 3:30AM waking up all the hippies and forcing them to boogie. If you could control over half a million people you’d get a little weird, too.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/woodstock-40th-anniversary-sly-and.html
  
  

• Musical Martyrs - The Vilified Albums - U2 -October

  • Aug 10, 2009 | 9:00am
  • 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 or critical contrivance) the album is held at arm's length as if my dog had just peed on it.
    
    And when it comes to U2, that album is October. Even Pop, which is undeniably their weakest moment has it's fans, and those who don't like it, just dismiss it entirely. But October actually has critics mystified, bows drawn, arrows slung. I've seen the album described as a "stumble." A "collection of half-finished songs and desperately inarticulate lyrics." But here's the thing, without a doubt, October is my single favorite U2 album, and an essential, even critical stepping stone in the creation of what became the biggest band on the planet.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/musical-martyrs-vilified-albums-u2.html
  
  

• Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies

  • Aug 7, 2009 | 8:04am
  • 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 weightlessness. Sideshow Symphonies is both a cosmic odyssey and a comic oddity, an album so complex in its scope that it leaves all listeners shaking their head with a pleasure smile, sometimes silently wondering how such sound can be created, but most times speaking these thoughts aloud. It’s an album that’s one part metal, one part classical, a whole lotta’ parts theatrical, and something that can best be described as avant garde. But, it’s avant garde with a consistent theme, if you will. These aren’t a bunch of songs that noodle for the sake of noodling, or shifting textures just to be weird. The songs that make up Sideshow Symphonies tell us a tale, of what I’m not completely sure, but suffice it say that it’s a captivating tale that will have you listening past the dynamic flurries of sound and anticipating the next mood swing like a child does Christmas morning.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/arcturus-sideshow-symphonies.html
  
  

• Protometal Report - Hard Stuff - Bulletproof

  • Aug 6, 2009 | 7:46am
  • The first half of the 1970’s is a bottomless pit of kick ass hard rock. Every month or so someone will turn me on to some band I’ve never heard of and it’s always from before 1975. Not too long ago Racer wrote up a band called Toad. Never heard of them but checked it out and loved it. Bulletproof by Hard Stuff is my latest obsession.
    
    Last year I gave my friend Vinny a copy of Death Walks Behind You by Atomic Rooster. He loves Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake & Palmer but had never heard this gem. He freaked! It caused him to track down a bunch of their other records. On the search he stumbled across Hard Stuff, featuring guitarist John Cann and drummer Paul Hammond both from Atomic Rooster’s peak era. The bassist is John Gustafson from a band called Quatermass, who had a song called “Black Sheep of the Family” that was covered on the first Rainbow album. It’s probably not a coincidence since Hard Stuff was on Purple Records, the label started by Deep Purple’s managers once they got rich. Originally the band was called Bullet but had to change the name due to litigation from another band with the same name.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/protometal-report-hard-stuff.html
  
  

• Flashback to Tomorrow: People and Gala

  • Aug 3, 2009 | 8:20am
  • 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 together, but if that is their goal, they’ve made some very huge steps. It’s almost like those old Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup commercials . . . two great tastes that taste great together? Well, pop powerhouse People and the gutter meets glamorous Gala have fused two great sounds that sound great together. You heard it here first? Not sure if that's true and it doesn’t really matter . . . just as long as you hear it.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/flashback-to-tomorrow-people-and-gala.html
  
  

• A Sunday Conversation with The Torrents

  • Aug 2, 2009 | 10:22am
  • 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 leather interview couch and talk some music.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/02/sunday-conversation-with-t.html
  
  

• An Eclectic Edifice of Ebullient EP's

  • Jul 31, 2009 | 8:00am
  • Echovalve - Because of You
    
    It wasn't that long ago that we declared Echovalve to be the mythical Phoenix of rock and roll, having survived in their short career more adversity than most people will ever experience in a lifetime. Helloagaingoodbye was a raging slab of alt metal that roared like a declaration that the boys wouldn't succumb to their problems, but rise above, guitars held high, and fight back. And the did. Undeniably, the album was a success. More problems befell the boys however, and it wouldn't take much for the average Joe to assume that the weight of all this trauma might have finally caught up with the band.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/eclectic-edifice-of-ebullient-eps.html
  
  

• Lights Out! – Destroy Create

  • Jul 30, 2009 | 9:13am
  • How did a young new band from Germany wind up sounding like they’re from Cleveland in 1979? Lights Out! are the closest thing I’ve heard to the Pagans since . . . never.
    
    This is real punk rock done right. No whiny melodic choruses, no NYHC mosh parts and, most importantly, no influences past 1982. None prior to the 1st Ramones album, neither. If you love The Zero Boys, Angry Samoans, Black Flag (pre-Rollins), Circle Jerks, DOA, etc you have a new favorite band. English punk lovers shouldn’t feel left out because there’s plenty of UK Subs and GBH to make you happy as well.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/lights-out-destroy-create.html
  
  

• Rumors Heard in MySpace, Vol. II, Episode 7

  • Jul 29, 2009 | 8:25am
  • It seems like forever since we all clambered aboard this music fueled contraption that takes us to such wondrous lands. If memory serves me right, last month’s episode was somewhat abbreviated as most of my spare time was focused on a preparations for a Field Trip on the East Coast, and I couldn’t go into great depth on some of the hidden gems lurking in the world of MySpace. So, now that I’m back in the saddle again (thank you for the screeching melody, Mr. Tyler,) and life is falling back into its normal routine, I’ve been able to delve deeper in the seemingly bottomless pit of cyber music. This month, as per usual, we’re headed to lands afar, so I hope y’all updated your passports. Buckle up, Waveriders! With Racer piloting this beast and Woody stirring drinks, we’re gonna’ traverse this globe and check out some more of the best music that you’re not listening to!
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/rumors-heard-in-myspace-vol-ii-episode.html
  
  

• Bigelf - Hex

  • Jul 27, 2009 | 9:19am
  • 
    There's an old saying that goes something like this. "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death . . . I wouldn't want to set up camp there." I think the same thing could be said for Damon Fox's mind.
    
    The main architect of the glorious doom, bombastic glam that is Bigelf, Damon's mind is not a safe place for the uninitiated. No one knows what's lingering behind each synapse, hiding between the axons, lurking within the dendrites.
    
    Last year, I thought I was going out on a limb when I named Bigelf's mind staggering album, Cheat the Gallows, my number one heavy album released in 2008. Turns out, many other of the contributors to that Best of List, felt similarly, adding Cheat the Gallows to their lists as well. Well, I got news for you. In 2007 the Bigelvin men released an album Hex, that in many ways is just as impressive, and certainly heavier, than Gallows. If it had been released this year, it would already have the top spot nailed down.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/bigelf-hex.html
  
  

• Eryn Non Dae. - Hydra Lernaia

  • Jul 25, 2009 | 12:30pm
  • These are dark days indeed.
    
    
    One might think that when Eryn Non Dae. signed with Metal Blade that things might be cheerier for the lads. And, though the individual members of the band might be excited and hopeful, the music that they’ve created is anything but. Hydra Lernaia is one of those uber-dense pieces of music that portrays a world of darkness and despair, but not in the evil, satanic, boogey-man is gonna’ get ya’ kind of way. Think more along the lines of, “Gee, I have no education because my family was too poor to send me to school, but I can’t get a job to pay for further schooling because I have no education. So I guess I’ll just enlist in the military and die for a cause that I don’t believe in.” I’m not saying that the guys from Eryn Non Dae. are uneducated . . . far from it. In fact, they speak with the aged wisdom of sages, and it comes out in the music. They see what’s going on out there. They’re not fools. And they’re more than happy to spread their dark outlook to anyone who’ll take the time to listen.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/eryn-non-dae-hydra-lernaia.html
  
  

• Yob - The Great Cessation

  • Jul 23, 2009 | 3:13pm
  • There’s heavy, and then there’s YOB.
    
    Hearing YOB’s 2005 album The Unreal Never Lived for the first time earlier this year I was stunned. At times it sounded like David Wayne from Metal Church fronting Sleep. At other times it sounded like Celtic Frost covering Swans. How come none of my friends into High On Fire or Electric Wizard told me about these guys? Like most good things in life, it’s always better to find out for yourself.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/yob-great-cessation.html
  
  

• We Insist! - The Babel Inside Was Terrible

  • Jul 20, 2009 | 2:58pm
  • When last we saw We Insist!, they were defying logic with their incredibly infectious release Oh! Things Are So Corruptible, an album packed past the grooves with deft tempo changes infused with a sense of melody that sticks with you like gum on the bottom of your boot. Guess what? The lads are back . . . and they haven’t veered off course in the slightest. If anything, they focused this vehicle of musical expression to a laser fine point and targeted the spirit of adventure square in the center of the bull’s eye. In most cases, one plus one equals two, but when listening to The Babel Inside Was Terrible, one plus one probably equals something more akin to pi. The time changes that this band lives by would send Einstein scrambling back to his chalkboard to recalculate everything that he thought he had proven. Time isn’t supposed to move this way! Then when you least expect it, We Insist! change things up and slap you across the head with melody drenched passages that not only act as a break to the discordant rhythms, but also act as the underlying theme of the song.
    
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-insist-babel-inside-was-terrible.html
  
  

• Protometal Report - Humble Pie - King Biscuit Flower Hour: In Concert 1973

  • Jul 16, 2009 | 2:43pm
  • Humble Pie’s Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore is regarded as one of the greatest live rock albums of all time. It captures a kick ass band in front of a rowdy crowd at the Fillmore East in New York City in 1971. Rockin’ The Fillmore is the album that broke Humble Pie in the USA. Up to that point, their studio albums were a mixed affair. Touring with Grand Funk Railroad showed them that kicking ass all the time is the way to go and to leave the acoustic guitars to James Taylor. Well, at least that’s what Steve Marriot, Jerry Shirley and Greg Ridley wanted to do. Lead guitarist Peter Frampton left the band to become the soft rock king of the 70’s. He wanted to show everyone “the way” was wine coolers, cocaine and feathered hair.
    
    This live recording from the Winterland in San Francisco May 6, 1973 is another example of Humble Pie at its peak. Recorded for radio broadcast by the King Biscuit Flower Hour, this is very much the equal of their revered live album. Some like it even better than Rockin’ The Fillmore some less, but everyone agrees that few can match the power of Humble Pie in concert.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/protometal-report-humble-pie-king.html
  
  

• Ripple Theater: Iron Maiden - Flight 666

  • Jul 15, 2009 | 6:36am
  • When it comes to Iron Maiden, there are very few surprises yet there’s still quite a bit of mystery. You know that you’re getting heavy metal that weaves and winds through multiple time and mood changes, and all of it played with the proficiency of gods, but unless you’re family, part of the inner circle, or that ultimate fan who rummages through the bands personal belongings, there’s some question as to what it is that makes this band tick. Thirty odd years of writing music, packing luggage, hopping aboard a tour bus or airline to various places across the globe for months on end, and then doing it all again the following year takes a serious commitment. And Iron Maiden’s fans are the few fans in this sometimes big ugly world that seem to actually appreciate what the band has provided. A legacy. A band driven to outperform itself every night. A band that would rather die than let their paying fans experience something less than perfection. A band that works itself stupid, night after night, to the point of absolute exhaustion. The pay off? Being revered by a whole new generation of metal fan.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/ripple-theater-iron-maiden-flight-666.html
  
  

• The D.I.Y Ethic Lives On - More Homemade Candy for Your Ears

  • Jul 13, 2009 | 7:22pm
  • Man, I've been so excited to write up this month's D.I.Y Ethic column that I've been chomping at the bit like some racehorse dying to jump out of the starting blocks. Well, maybe I'm no racehorse, but at least I've been chomping like some quality quarterhorse at a riding school. A mule in a hayfield? A broken down burro in line at the glue factory?
    
    Whatever, I've been so excited to write this column that I secretly jumped it ahead in the schedule so I could shout out about some of the great independent bands out there, slaving away on their own dime, dishing out some quality tasty treats for your aural consumption.
    
    So without further ado . . .
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/diy-ethic-lives-on-more-homemade-candy.html
  
  

• Field Report: Bethlehem, Pa. June21, 2009 – Trettioariga Kriget (NearFest)

  • Jul 11, 2009 | 4:32pm
  • 
    
    It’s a Sunday morning, the clouds have formed over New York City, and anxiety has struck my being with the force of a ten ton nuclear warhead. I was leaving the city that I had just begun to fathom in theory for Newark, New Jersey en route to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania via train and bus, respectively. As if taking on the New York City terrain and subways alone wasn’t a daunting enough task, now I was embarking on a journey across state lines that I was completely unfamiliar with.
    
    
    Sign of the cross, silent prayer, and . . . break!
    
    
    
    I’ll spare you all the boring travel details, but in short, I took a train to Newark, hopped on a bus to Bethlehem, and hoofed it on foot up many a hill to Lehigh University to check out one of my favorite prog-rock bands. Yes, Trettioariga Kriget were back in the States for only the second time in their history and performing on the last day of NearFest, the annual festival that throws a blinding spotlight on all that is progressive in music, especially rock. Most of you know that I’ve had a fascination with these Swedes from the moment I first heard “Lang Historia” off of their 2004 release, Elden Av Ar, so it should come as no surprise that being a mere seventy miles away that I was gonna’ do everything possible to check them out. Again, I have no plans to bore you with every minute detail of me getting to the University, finding the hall, and locating my seat assignment . . . so let’s fast forward to the show, shall we?
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/field-report-bethlehem-pa-june21-2009.html
  
  

• Proto-metal Report - Dschinn - S/T

  • Oct 20, 2008 | 7:26am
  • It wasn't just the Brits and the Americans who were waving the flag of change as the heavier vibe of proto-metal began to rear its ugly head in the til-then-glorious-world of psychedelic rock. Never ones to be left out, yet fully determined to do things their own Teutonic way, bands from Germany latched on to the new, heavier, darker vibe, added in their own mix of influences and proceeded to blow several minds apart at the medulla oblongata.
    
    Krautrock, defined by a move away from standard song structure and wild experimentation, all anchored by an immovable motorik 4/4 beat, took the concepts of proto-metal and rocketed it off into outer space, flying on cosmic bouts of jamming and the precocious use of synthesizers with bands like Neu!, Can and Amon Dull II. While the genre of Krautrock is a separate, wholly worthwhile monster to explore, for the sake of the proto-metal report, we're most interested in those German bands that took the psychedelic exploratory vibe of the Krautrock movement and fused it to an immensely heavy Sabbath inspired bottom end.
    
    Which brings us to Dschinn.
    
    more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2008/10/proto-metal-report-dschinn-st.html
  
  

• Elvin Bishop - The Blues Rolls On

  • Oct 15, 2008 | 7:20am
  • You have to earn your stripes to be called a legend.
    
    After 40 years of bluesing it out in the business, Elvin Bishop has certainly earned the reputation of a legend, easily one of the most respected living white blues guitarist of his generation. From his early days on the mean streets of Chicago, to his genre-bending stint with the Butterfield Blues Band on to his own solo work, Bishop has been there and done it all. Widely recognized as a master of the slide guitar, Bishop's last album, 2005's "Gettin' My Groove Back," touched the blues charts, peaking at number 9.
    
    Now, the master is back, and this time he's packing some heat. Armed with an army of good friends, collaborators and a few newer members to his posse, Bishop jumps back into the studio, unleashing a star-studded blues workout. Stepping aside to take the role of master of ceremonies, Bishop's not afraid to share the spotlight with blues legend and newbie alike. As an older statesman now, The Blues Rolls On is a look back at his roots, his legacy, and a simultaneous passing of the torch to the next generation of blues mongers who'll keep the life of the blues rolling on for years to come.
    
    more . . . http://www.theripplemusic.net/2008/10/elvin-biship-blues-rolls-on.html
    
  
  

• Machinery %u2013 The Passing

  • Oct 13, 2008 | 10:20am
  • Man, I%u2019ve been on a metal kick of late. What is this, the third straight metal review that I%u2019ve written? It must be something that they%u2019re feeding me.
    
    
    
    Literally. I%u2019ve been fed a pile of metal albums over the past month that would frighten most music listener%u2019s right out of their skin. Some has been good. Some has been bad. Some has been exquisite, and that%u2019s the stuff that I%u2019ve been sucking on as if it were the teat of life and good fortune. This album from a band out of (surprise, surprise) Sweden just made me gleeful that I have a pair of ears. The band, as I%u2019m sure you%u2019ve guessed, is called Machinery. The album, also something that I%u2019m sure you guessed, is called The Passing. What we have here is a band that has delicately balanced heavy aggressive riffing with powerfully melodic passages and an almost overwhelming shine of technical brilliance. Imagine taking the bombastic sounds of In Flames and Dark Tranquility, and mixing them with the technical progression of Nevermore and King Diamond. Ho yeah, baby . . . that%u2019s what I%u2019m talking about! A musical feast that will keep the ears eating away through the holidays!
    
    more . . . http://www.theripplemusic.net/2008/10/machinery-passing.html
  
  

• A Sunday Conversation With Space Probe Taurus

  • Oct 12, 2008 | 8:49am
  • Space Probe Taurus exploded out of nowhere to fill our humble Ripple office with the most glorious mess of scuzzed out, fuzzed out acid biker rock that we'd heard in ages. Naturally, we couldn't resist the opportunity to have Ola, the main madman behind the SPT mayhem, plop on down and join us on the Ripple couch for a little Sunday chat.
    
    more . . . http://www.theripplemusic.net/2008/10/sunday-conversation-with-space-probe.html
  
  

• Ogre - Plague of the Planet

  • Oct 10, 2008 | 7:11am
  • Coming at you with more ferocity than an army of orcs freshly borne from the muddy, stink-filled pits of Modor, Ogre is one mean, nasty beast breathing the fire of some of the nation's best underground Sabbath-inspired doom metal that is just screaming to be heard.
    
    Now if that sentence seems like a mouthful, let's break it down one step at a time and shine the microscope on this freaking epic undertaking of riff-mongering metal. Ogre, a three piece from Maine, had previously burst onto the scene spewing their twisted brand of fantasy rich, futuristic sci-fi doom metal with such albums as Dawn of the Proto-man, Unleashed from the Northwest, and Seven Hells. Each album found them spawning their own mind-bending mythology of dogmen, The Colossus and the Proto-man. Personally, we think the Ripple Effect should be in there somewhere, but we'll let the boys slide on that one.
    
    more . . . http://www.theripplemusic.net/2008/10/ogre-plague-of-planet.html
  
  

• A Perfect Pyrogenic Pack of PULVERISED Products

  • Oct 9, 2008 | 7:02am
  • Our postal delivery guy, Sal, knows to wear protective hand wear when delivering packages to The Ripple Effect. Often times, we receive packages that are smoldering, and the non-descript manila packaging is usually turning black in places from the excess heat that%u2019s being generated from within. This day was no different, my friends. My metal heart damned near exploded when this package came screaming across my desk. While I was picking up the package with a set of tongs, Racer was frantically stamping out the stray embers that made their way to his side of the desk. Eventually, the heat from the envelopes contents evaporated the packaging and I was left holding three wonderfully corrupt CD%u2019s from one of my new favorite labels, Pulverised Records. Thank you, gentlemen, for getting this into my tongs!
    
    more . . . http://www.theripplemusic.net/2008/10/perfect-pyrogenic-pack-of-pulverised.html
  
  

• The Ripple Effect

  • Oct 9, 2008 | 4:43am
  • Tons of music reviews, videos and some free downloads at The Ripple Effect, www.ripplemusic.blogspot.com. Come stop by and see who the latest find is. All genre's of music. Great new artists, unheralded songwriter's and lost classics.