NEWS

Playing with XXX Audio and others at Graceland, June 26th at 4:15 PM. Early all-ages LADYFEST SEATTLE INDIE ROCK SHOWCASE!
Doors at 1:00 PM.

You should check out Ladyfest Seattle 2004.

Ms. Laura Pautler is a permanent member of Ripley now! We are now even steven on the boy-girl front. She needs to sing more backups but is generally ready to kick ass. Watch out for her Blueshammer licks.

APRIL SHOWS:
4/17 Bowie Tribute at The Hideaway
4/28 Ladyfest Benefit with Ms. Led, Cober, Henkensiefken

Ripley will be playing ROCK ARADIA on December 10th. Come and rock for choice, y'all. Laura of Ruby Tuesday will be joining us on guitar.

||||| Named after the First Officer of the Nostromo space freighter in the classic sci-fi movie "Alien," this Seattle-based band rides on unusual chord voicings, hard-hitting beats, and emotionally charged lyrics that combine to produce compositions as danceable as they are disturbing.

The effect has critics debating whether singer/guitarist Jessie S.K. sounds more like Carrie Akre or Kristin Hersh, and the jury is still out on the best set of influences to reveal.

||||| {hypermobile} was recorded by Kip Beelman (Sleater-Kinney, Juno) and mastered by Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden), all at two venerable local studios (Litho and Reciprocal/Hanzcek). The CD has been well-received on local radio (Ripley has also had on-air shows on KEXP, KSER, and KGRG).

Amazon.com: “the album is always melodic, sometimes hard, sometimes heavy, sometimes jangly, sometimes sexy, maybe even funny. Yeah, it's a little scary with those lyrics sent up by a sharp woman in a black dress...{hypermobile}, let it jump around in your CD player awhile. You’ll like it. It’ll be good to you.”

||||| Ripley has rocked Seattle venues such as the Crocodile, Sit ‘n’ Spin, and Chop Suey, and have appeared at Capitol Hill Block Party and the Alki MusicFest. A short list of bands that Ripley has played with locally: the bend, Vandemonium, Tart, The Actual Tigers, Ms. Led, The Fakes, Cober, Dorkweed, & Dear John Letters.