The Enthusiasts –Sinkin/Risin’ b/w Joanne Mutated garage fuzz with a mean and beefy bottom end. The Enthusiasts know how to bring the rock into the garage rock vein.  Not content to settle on the fuzz and tin can vocals, the lads drop some big, near-stoner riffs, a nifty breakdown and a blur of a guitar solo into "Sinkin’/Risin’".  "Joanne" follow suit with a tasty, psychedelic guitar/vocal intro. Coming from a “small town north of NYC”, this is the Enthusiasts second 7” platter.  Toss in a handcrafted, self-stapled sleeve and we got ourselves one tasty vinyl treat ...

No exact dates yet except for one, but here's Bad Afro Records's confirmed release list for this coming spring: Dragontears - 2000 micrograms from home LP repress. 500 copies on green vinyl. (AFROLP032). Release January 17. Baby Woodrose - Mindblowing seeds & disconnected flowers LP/CD (AFROLP041/AFROCD041) Baby Woodrose - Blows your mind LP repress. 500 copies on purple vinyl. (AFROLP020) On Trial - 2x7" (FRO050) Telstar Sound Drone - 7" (FRO051) And for fall: Baby Woodrose - Love comes down CD/LP (AFROLP042/AFROCD042) The Setting Son - s/t LP repress. 500 copies on red vinyl. (AFROLP034) Baby Woodrose/The Setting Son split ...

Following hot on the heels of the success of their Ripple Music debut split 7" single, Grand Atlantic keep the pedal to the metal, building momentum and converting the uninitiated to the Grand Atlantic ranks. Taken from Grand Atlantic's massively praised second album "How We Survive," the hot single "Used to Be the Sensitive Type" was remixed and remastered for inclusion on the Ripple Music split single which also featured the KEXP Top 20 hit by Sky Parade, "I Should Be Coming Up (But I Keep Coming Down."  Since then, things have only gotten busier for the Australian band ...

Keep your bands happy. Distribute your own titles. Never offer downloads. On the eve of their 100th release – Sole Stickers’ 'Sludge' – PATRICK EMERY speaks to Mick Baty about the three golden rules behind his Melbourne-based label and record store Off the Hip. Barely a day goes by without some semi-informed commentator predicting the impending demise of the music industry and its business model. Specious analysis of the music industry is thrown in with airport-lounge quality economic analysis and a smattering of glib techno-savvy discourse to create apocryphal scenarios where record labels – once the basis commercial element of the music industry ...

This week in the Bay Area: Tuesday, July 13 Halstead, Dave Smallen, The Lonely Wild @ Cafe Du Nord The Mynabirds, Honeycomb, Jeremy Messersmith @ Rickshaw Stop Hanalei, James Leste, Rob Carter & Ruben Diaz, Sean McArdle @ Bottom of the Hill Wednesday, July 14 Rykarda Parasol, Kevin Junior (Chamber Strings), Mark Matos & Os Beaches, The Dolly Rocker Movement @ [...]

Blissed out, T-Rex inspired, psychedelic pop.  That's what The Dolly Rocker Movement brings to the table and that's what caught us by the Ripple ears and spun us around like a heady case of vertigo.  Joining us today on the red leather interview couch is head Dolly, Daniel Darling to open up our minds to what makes The Dolly Rocker Movement tick. 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 ...

JPT Scare Band - Rumdum Daddy As I write this, an Icelandic volcano has grounded jet liners over a good portion of the world.  In my opinion, if it wasn’t the volcano putting a stop to air traffic, it would’ve been this eruptive new disc by the legendary JPT Scare Band .  And I don’t toss out that metaphor frivolously.  From the first time I  heard these Acid Rock pioneers plying their distinctly original blend of fuming hot jams and molten acid excursions, a picture of a spewing volcano was what came to mind.  Searing hot, flowing like boiling ...

Some interesting musical facts about 11: - The interval of an octave and a fourth is an eleventh. A complete eleventh chord has almost every note of a diatonic scale. - The number of thumb keys on a bassoon, not counting the whisper key. (A few bassoons have a twelfth thumb key.) - In the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, Spinal Tap's amplifiers go up to eleven. - In Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, there are eleven consecutive repetitions of the same chord. - In Tool's song Jimmy, the number eleven is heard numerous times in the lyrics. Pretty cool eh ...

Psychedelic whimsy is very much the order of the day for Australian folk rockers The Dolly Rocker Movement. Taking their cues from the pastoral soundscapes of Syd Barret's Pink Floyd and Arthur Lee's Love, their third album is a warm, hazy pop record buzzing with some winning pop hooks and a...

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Teenage Wasteland's faves: THE NORVINS "Time Machine" (Soundflat) GRAHAM DAY & THE GAOLERS "Triple Distilled" (Damaged Goods), THE YUM YUMS "Whatever Rhymes With Baby" (Screaming Apple / Pop Detective) THE DOLLY ROCKER MOVEMENT "Our Days Mind The Tyme" (Off The...

Australier sind ja so exzentrisch wie Briten. Da mag man The Dolly Rocker Movement das gewagte Spiel nicht mal verdenken. Viele bezaubernde Melodien mit Ideen, handgemachte Sounds und frohmütige Texte nimmt das Psychedelic-Kollektiv und stellt eine seltsame elektronische Kulisse dazu: Beats und Alltagsgeräusche, Vox-Gitarren, jaulende Orgeln und Undefinierbares. Hochgradig skurril ist das, sehr liebevoll, very [...]

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 ...

I remember squinting like a newborn as i chatted to Sydney musician Dustin Bookatz outside the sunny Sydney Uni quadrangle in mid-2007. Pressed into a bench cradling his bass guitar, he told me about his new band's upcoming gigs. I asked him to invite me to one. Skip to September 2008 and Dustin asked me to catch his beaming glam-rock band WIM at Manning Bar. They played alongside Cloud Control in front of a small student crowd. I stood near the foot of the stage to get a good view of their set. I marveled at both the band ...

Great music in a great setting. Who could ask for more. Well, that is Playground Weekender 2009. It's fast approaching, so if you still want tickets you better get moving. Six stages of music, an outdoor cinema, markets, food, drink, a swimming pool. Plus lots more. Did I mention the music? I think this lineup is perhaps the festival's best yet. Definitely something for everyone. It takes place at Del Rio Riverside Resort on 6, 7, 8 of February. Artists Lineup Primal Scream The Streets Jose Gonzalez War Kids">Cold War Kids Crystal Castles Crazy Penis Lyrics Born ...