Man, I love it when a band brings the music! Not just the hard driving rhythms, the catchy melodies, or the dynamic conveyance of emotion through dramatic time changes. I love it when a band brings the music with pure passion, an edgy resentment for the status quo, and a bag full of fun! Water is Ri...

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...

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...

Last year was a good year for music here at The Ripple office. So many new bands crossed our paths, brought through the door by postman Sal, filed away by our intern Monica and cleared by the quality control team of The Sheriff and the Redneck Wookie. One such band to land on our doorstep, courtesy ...

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...

Sometimes you might want to shoot video outside, and you want to do it someplace beautiful. How do you find a location like that? This installment of Izzy Video will show you an innovative way to discover new locations for shooting video. By the way, I’m releasing this episode under a Creative...

One of the great things that we’ve noticed since Racer and I started this Ripple Effect beast is that there are a bunch of people out there who love music. Not just to the point that they listen to it at work and tap their toes to the rhythm. No . . . I’m talking, really love the stuff to the po...

Rocking our world with a dynamite brand of melody heavy, sixties-rich, britrock, The Morning Stars blew us away with their debut album,You Can't Change the World. Immediately, we knew this was a band to be reckoned with, our bet to break it big someday. So naturally, we had to extend the brothers Iv...

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...