Ripple Music‘s ongoing series of split releases, The Second Coming of Heavy, has become an essential documentary project on the state of (mostly American) heavy rock and roll. Though cumbersomely and — arguably — historically inaccurately named, in pairing acts together on vinyl like Geezer and Borracho (review here), Supervoid and Red Desert (review here), […]
Please note: This post is not culled in any way from the Year-End Poll, which is ongoing. If you haven’t yet contributed your favorites of 2017 to that, please do. — Every successive year brings an absolute inundation of underground productivity. Every year, someone new is inspired to pick up a guitar, bass, drums, mic, keyboard, […]
I’m just going to assume that, aside from the nod to Judas Priest, BoneHawk calling their upcoming June run the ‘Screaming for Pizza Tour’ is a reference to and/or a continuation of the running gag from their prior video for the track “Los Vientos” (posted here), which also had pizza as a central theme. Can’t […]
The Human Instinct, Stoned Guitar (1970) I picked up one of the several reissues of The Human Instinct‘s Stoned Guitar years ago at a CD store in Manhattan that I’m sure by now is long gone. Can’t imagine I was the first person ever to make the purchase for this reason, but yes, it was […]
Please note: This post is not culled in any way from the Year-End Poll, which is ongoing. If you haven’t yet contributed your favorites of 2016 to that, please do. — Yeah, I know I said as much when the Top 20 Debut Albums of 2016 went up, but I take it back: this is the hardest […]
One can’t help but wonder if, when Ripple Music first announced their The Second Coming of Heavy series of splits in early 2015, the California-based imprint had any idea what they were getting into. They committed at the outset to make it 10 releases, each one dubbed a “Chapter,” and aside from the logistical nightmare […]
Ripple Music‘s steady ascent continues with the next edition of the label’s dubiously-titled The Second Coming of Heavy series of limited split LPs. After broadening the reach to international terrain the last time out in bringing together Michigan’s BoneHawk with Sweden’s Kingnomad (review here), The Second Coming of Heavy: Chapter Four once again pairs two […]
Michigan heavy rockers BoneHawk have announced their first tour of the West Coast, set to start July 15 in Chicago as they make their way out and toward Portland, Oregon, before swinging south and back around to finish curiously far away from where they started, in Nashville, Tennessee. They go supporting two new offerings, a […]
