Ripley Johnson is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter for Wooden Shjips, Moon Duo, and his most recent project Rose City Band. Rose City Band’s newest album Earth Trip will be released through Thrill Jockey Records on June 25. Ripley Johnson’s music has been described as “dazzled psychedelic wandering” (AllMusic), “some of the decade’s most mesmerizing …
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective (2004)
40 licks, ripped out of time, for your listening pleasure. Has there ever been a rock band as cool as The Brian Jonestown Massacre? Hailed as “The Velvet Underground of the 90’s,” with a turbulent past characterized by rivalry and crime, a vitriolic hatred of the corporate music industry, and a requisite tortured genius of …
Mark Lager’s Summer Vinyl: Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter – Marble Son (10th Anniversary)
The atmosphere circulates moisture from the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) and the winds carry these clouds from the west over Mexico during May. The North American monsoon season develops during June as the rains move northward into New Mexico. The North American monsoon season peaks in July and August in …