
Last month, my esteemed Ripple colleague, the Pope, started a new column titled "Flashback to Tomorrow," to drop some praise on a couple of bands that were bringing familiar sounds from the past kicking and screaming into the present day. Loving the idea, I decided to jump on board with two more bands, steeped in the sensibilities of days of yore, but updated with a modern edge for 2009. Shark Speed - Sea Sick Music As soon as I popped Shark Speed [...]
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ANOTHER ZEN STARRED, TEN TRACK PLAYLIST There are somewhere in the region of a billion bands and solo artists on this relatively small planet. FACT. You've never heard of most of them, and with good reason. The enormously overwhelming majority of them are so teeth-clenchingly awful that exposure to as little as ten seconds of their work is likely to make your ears limp down to your lapels and