Pop Injection

SPARKS - BBC ROCK HOUR #324 & #423 (1982-1983)

“Whomp That Sucker” was released in 1981, with some musicians from the Los Angeles area, actually David Kendrick, Leslie Bohem, Bob Haag had been famous with a local band called Bates Motel (one song on…

When the new Hellmouth CD crossed over the Ripple transom, The Pope and I just knew we were in for a treat. We’d already been high on their sound, an amped up punked up slab of riotous thrash metal, and…

Shoes’ Japan pics now posted.

That one just amuses me, for some reason.

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WAVES - AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW MUSIC VOL 1 (1979)

Pressed in blue vinyl, “Waves” was the second compilation from the legendary Bomp label. Greg Shaw and Bomp began as a rock magazine in ‘70 and became an “alternative music industry” in ‘74,…

“Pearl Jam - Reenk Roink (Alternate version of “Ten”) CD

In November of 1991, my freshman year in college, I was a DJ at WNUR in Evanston, Illinois.

My friend Jamie did an interview with Mike McCready and Dave Abbruzzese of…

Music’s biggest middle finger is now double fisted and right in your grill. That’s right, the 2CD deluxe version of Motorhead’s No Sleep Til Hammersmith has FINALLY been released in America. This thing came out a few years ago in Europe…

Welcome to another installment of another of my favorite columns here on the Ripple Effect, The Seven Inches of Fun. We’re blessed here to receive a great assortment of vinyl submissions, usually in the form of the delectable seven inch…

Saturday, April 18 marks the second annual “Record Store Day” at independent record stores throughout the US and the rest of the world, a day that retailers hope will draw loyal and new customers to celebrate the indie record store…

I’ve been remiss in not pimping heavily Shoes’ trip to Japan this month. Partly, it’s a deep psychic wound generated from missing this show (showed up at the airport for a closely-timed flight that ended up not existing), (another clip here–I may…

DARIAN - DO YOU HAVE ANY REGRETS (1997)
At the end of 1997 Darian Sahanaja of Wondermints released a solo single on the French record label Pop The Balloon. He covered two Brian Wilson songs: the previously unreleased “Do You Have Any Regrets”…