The Ripple Effect

Blog URL:http://www.ripplemusic.blogspot.com
Blog Tags:music, reviews, rock, punk, heavy metal, progressive, garage, post punk, psychedelic
Country:United States
State/Province:California
Location:San Francisco

The best music you’re not listening to.™ Reviews of lost classics and obscure titles. Unheralded bands and songwriters. New bands deserving of greater attention. It’s all here, on The Ripple Effect.



Latest Blog Posts



When I was a kid, growing up in a house with Cat Stevens, Neil Diamond, and Simon and Garfunkel, 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...

Tennessee Metal Devastation Music Fest (TMDMF) and Black Doomba Records are thrilled to announce their collaboration for the upcoming 2024 festival, set to transform downtown Jackson into a hub of metal music and culture on Saturday, October 5th, 202...

The Xroadie Files

on Apr 23, 2024

Neal Rosner - Kentucky Neal Rosner- Keyboards/Bass/Percussion/Vocals, Steve Baker- Percussion,, Barb Rosner- Spoken word, Alonzo Pennington- Guitar, Boscoe France- Guitar, James Dillingham- Guitar   The Choice clap sing and just flow with t...

Robot God, the innovative and boundary-pushing musical three piece, is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of their latest album, "Portal Within," set to launch on April 26th. This highly anticipated album will be available on vinyl through the...

I love it when bands enter my life by chance and then turn it upside down. This restores my faith in music, a realm dear to me but sadly oversaturated these days. Why all this blabbering about this? Well, the above rings so true about Knoxville punks...

US and Italian stoner rock giants NEBULA and BLACK RAINBOWS team up for a special split album entitled "In Search of the Cosmic Tale: Crossing the Galactic Portal Split", to be released on June 28th with preorders available now on Heavy Psych Sounds.

Goat Major ★ Ritual

on Apr 18, 2024

It still seems like a dozen new doom bands are popping up every week, and if we're honest, only a few of them stand out from the crowd.   Goat Major are definitely one of those bands whose first songs already showed that something big was comi...