Well, guess you saw this one coming. With last week's post of some of the more beautiful, ambient sounds being brought into the Ripple Office by our fearless postman, Sal, it was only a matter of time before we did a little round-up of some, maybe not so ambient sounds. Yeah, that sounds good. We'll...

I played some poker last night. Don't ask me how I did, but let's just say next time I may just give my money at the door and save the time and embarrassment of actually playing the game. But I digress, that's not the subject of this review. What is, is the fact that this morning, I'm broke, tired, ...

Man, this one caught me off guard. I'd heard of Boston's Street Dogs before. Seen some discs lying around somewhere, but never had the chance to have my heart ignited by 2,400 lbs of Bostonian raving Irish dynamite before. With my chest wall exploding in 90 different directions, bursting from the Do...

Ever since Paul Collins joined us on the Ripple Radio Show, we've just been buzzing about powerpop. Nothing quite like the instant pick-me-up of some big chords, banging drums, all wrapped up in a song more infectious than the SARS virus. So, along those lines, we're bringing you another cavernously...

Most loyal waveriders will already know how I feel about this monstrous platter of devastating old school metal. The anticipation had all been snatched away the moment I included this disc on our year end Best of Heavy Rock List. What may surprise you, however, is how this juicy disc made it onto th...

With Marky Ramone being a recent, and very gracious guest on our radio show, there really was very little surprise which band was going to occupy this month's Proto-metal Report. For those of you who want to hear what Marky had to say about his old band, the Ramones, Phil Spector, the great CBGB day...

Somewhere between getting drunk at noon and bumming around with truck drivers and pumping up and getting all blown dried up for the media and becoming a lance Armstrong squeeze, Sheryl Crow visited the sacred Trinity Church in Toronto, home to the seminal Cowboy junkies album The Trinity Sessions. A...

Just Hear It offers a temporary playlist where you can add tracks and listen to them. The startup has a simple UI, offering results of random artists – the site is basically for music listeners looking for random artists’ tracks. Since Just Hear It offers an online playlist it claims to be licen...

Here at the Ripple, we like to cover all sorts of music, in fact, the only rule the Pope and I have is that we only write about those bands and individuals who catch our ear. All you loyal waveriders out there no doubt know this. Metal, jazz, blues, African, stoner, psychedelic, post punk, hardcore,...

Here at the Ripple, we're open to all sorts of music. In fact sometimes, we welcome the odd, the bizarre, the not quite-operating on all cylinders, because we relish the creativity those twisted geniuses bring to their muse. Case in point: Cirith Ungol. Freakishly surreal epic fantasy metal, more in...