After a few too many months of longing for In'n'Out, a couple members of Pickwick, a Young Lion, local photographer Lori Paulson and one other Animal Sauce addict decided to do something about it. There was only one way to satiate this lust ... a round-trip drive to the nearest In'n'Out. Never mind that gas [...]

Words By Greg Whitt Sounding like an old school cabinet-style arcade game gone berserk, El Prez's "I'm Gone (King Kong)" is not the typical weed-anthem. Culled from his appropriately fast-food inspired mixtape, Animal Style! , The Inglewood, CA native's energy is much more "get up off your ass" than "puff puff pass." Utilizing a well-placed vocal sample from The Luniz' classic, "I Got 5 On It," Prez has some bouncy, no frills fun on the Space Invaders meets Space Cakes production. Beatsmith Ro Blvd exorcises [...]

Washington Square Park will be releasing their self-titled LP on March 8th with Animal Style Records . This will include two brand new songs. The band recently released "Open-Ended" for free download on PropertyOfZack. Both "Open-Ended" and "Explanation" were recorded for an acoustic set . Check them out in Montclair at Gallery U on February 19th . Other bands will include GDP, The Exotic Aquatic, The Front Bottoms, Mother Nevada and C-Note. Presale tickets can be [...]
Shifty Brethren - Tomorrow night, we're kicking off the weekend in Shifty fashion with our first event of 2011!!!! Not Get Shifty at Main on Main (more on that in the next couple of weeks). We're starting up a whole new series that we're calling Animal Style. Why? Because we're...

Many people have not heard of this French electro legend. Para One is the founder of the epic label Institubes , which has signed artists like Surkin and L-VIS 1990 . His album ' Epiphany ' is one of my all time French favorites, and if you haven't heard the bangers from this album such as ' Turtle Trouble ' and ' F.U.D.G.E ', you should probably enlighten yourself. Ed Banger artists like Justice and DJ Mehdi have been legitimately inspired by Para One, and I am extremely happy to see him back on [...]

This is my first true solo project since '08 so I held nothing back and brought the best out of myself to give the people an amazing project and look into the FCC/ "Tree House" lifestyle in Los Angeles, circa 2010. "Animal Style!" derived from a hamburger chain that originated in SoCal called In-N-Out, and refers to a special way they prepare the burger and fries that only the locals and savvy customers even knew existed, on a "secret" menu. Being the hamburger aficionado I am (lol), I felt my music and this "food for thought" I was cooking up [...]
" In the city of dreams/where cats gamble for cheese/and ghetto ass broads flex hard while they patting their weaves ..." El Prez is joined by Shawn Chystopher on this cut from his upcoming Animal Style! tape which fittingly will drop next Monday on PREZident's Day. Over production by LAUSD , the duo big up their home town of Inglewood. Sure the story's been told time and time again, yet it never gets old. Styles & gear change, but life in the hood remains in a continuous loop [...]

I fell and I fell hard for the psychedelic, stoner, grunge, pop hybrid that came from Austin rockers, Oak is Keeping, and their debut album, Animal Style . So it was without a moment's hesitation that we invited singer, Shay Isdale, to pop on down to the Ripple office, take a seat on the trusty red leather interview couch talk about what makes this Oak grow. When I was a kid, growing up in a house with Cat Stevens, Neil Diamond, and Simon and Garfunkle, the first time I ever heard Kiss's [...]
Pearl Harbor is Piper and sister Skyler on guitar with Cody on bass and Cole from Haunted Graffiti at the boards for their new EP Something About the Chaparrals . If there ever appears a midnight rainbow between Birmingham and Maui, they will calmly accept it as a sign acknowledging their place and presence in the universe. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

Throughout mythology, there have always been bizarre creations, amalgamations of disparate elements that should never be able to exist together. The part-man, part-bull Minotaur; the part human, part horse Centaur; the complete animal mishmash of animal parts that is the Griffin. Compelling for their justposition of animal parts, these creatures have captured man's imagination. In music, rarely does such an incongruous hydra come about, fusing completely disparate elements into one living, breathing, beautiful creature. Oak is Keeping is one such hydra. With a body composed sturdily of riff-heavy, bass [...]
by eliza Last night at The Bell House was day 2 of the Blip Festival . To be honest, chipmusic is fairly new to me, and I really have no clue what these people are doing with their little machines on stage. One thing I did know was that I was surrounded by nerds. The sparse crowd consisted almost completely of young, Brooklyn boys who looked like hipsters but wouldn't be caught dead some beer garden in park slope. Yeah, they're that table [...]

Normally Trixie brings you all the hot chiptunes jams, but since she's off being important, I figured I'd step up to plate this time. Maybe you've noticed the banner added to the top of our site about a month ago? Well that's Blip Festival , and it starts.... TONIGHT! It's international mayhem of the chiptunes variety; taking Game Boys (DMGS), Ataris, Nintendos, 8-bit emulator VSTs, Commodore 64s, Nintendo DS's (and just about anything else you can think of), our stalwart adventurers hack, slash and tweak the hardware in ways mere mortals thought impossible, creating [...]

The Tank's night of crush-worthy electronic music returns for a second date! A wild-at-heart, all animal line-up will make you sway wistfully to their blissful beats- Animal Style with his guitar and Game Boy and VBlank with his mastery of eclectic visuals from lo-fi to hi-fi will be coming up from Philadelphia to join NYC's own Data Dog and the fearsome sparrow for the bimonthly music series. Animal Style is on the artsier, R&D tip of this whole chiptunes scene. Don't get me wrong, he's got a [...]

From a childhood favorite to influencing the music I listen to today, the 8-bit processor has been with me in one form or another since my 1st Grade Social Studies class. The Famicom, Atari, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega, and groups like Crystal Castles all share something in common, that little processor that has powered favorite games like Super Mario Brothers , Tecmo Super Bowl , Contra , and ExciteBike (click those links to play). Over the years, advances in computer chip techonlogy have rendered the processor pretty much obsolete (I think). [...]