“Joey Ripps” Posts

Donnie Ozone, Timezone Lafontaine & The P.U.C.K. crew, oh my!

Donnie Ozone & P.U.C.K. revisit Dust On Wax Hey kids… today we’ve got a dope new remix of Donnie Ozone’s Dust On Wax for you to enjoy. After some recent inspiration, Cheese had the urge to revisit the track and give fans something new to listen to. Enjoy. Yo Cheese…… Read more

An improvBloc by Tha Silent Partner and Donnie & Timezone bring us Tha Bloc Report for April!

Tha Silent Partner releases an improvBloc! Begun back in 2014 by James Dangle, the improvBloc series was created to celebrate improvisational music creation. Each release is 20-40 minutes and improvisational to some degree. Thus far there have only been 2 released, the last one by Eli & The Mannings in… Read more

Alex Franklin drops High Life and Donnie & Timezone return with Tha Bloc Report for February!

Alex Franklin drops High Life! Alright kids… here’s “High Life”, the first single from Alex Franlin’s new album “Chest Pains”. If you haven’t already checked out the album, get a taste of it here. Oh… and you beat heads out there will be happy to know that the instrumental’s included… Read more

Alex Franklin surprises and Donnie & Timezone bring us another dope episode of Tha Bloc Report!

Alex Franklin switches things up with Chest Pains! Hey kids… so you know multi-instrumentalist Alex Franklin from his instrumental releases, right? However, what do you know about Alex Franklin the rapper? Well, after today, you’ll know much more because we have his blocSonic rap debut “Chest Pains”. The album is… Read more

New Release: Ant The Symbol returns with our fiftieth original album release!

In 2009, Just Plain Ant made his album debut with our premiere original album release, so I think it’s quite fitting that Anthony Gillison with his new artistic identity, Ant The Symbol, brings blocSonic our fiftieth! With this new album, his artistic growth has allowed him to revisit his hip-hop… Read more

New release: Ant The Symbol kicks off December with the first single from “Tempus Fugit”!

Back in the Fall & Spring of 2013/2014 we were first introduced to Anthony Gillison’s new musical identity, Ant The Symbol, with a great trilogy of instrumental EPs. Since then, he released a number of releases independently, which you can find at bandcamp. However, it’s now been over a year… Read more

New release: The Honorable Sleaze is back with his first single from "Broad Street Boogie"

The Honorable Sleaze returns to blocSonic with some of his trademark freshness. This is the first single from his forthcoming release “Broad Street Boogie”, the incredibly addictive title track backed with “Love Me/Hate Me” which features the one and only Joey Ripps. Yup, RVA is back in the house! Remember…… Read more

New release: The return of Sleaze! A new single for your enjoyment

The Honorable Sleaze is back with the 2nd and final maxi-single from his great release “This Funk”. This time around it’s “Dance Track” b/w a single exclusive “Lovin’”! With those two great tracks, you’ll find a few other dopadelic exclusives… among which are FRESH remixes for Better Days. Don’t sleep… Read more

New release: The Honorable Sleaze’s “This Funk”

What if I told you that we’ve got some of that ILL hip-hop soul-funk for you? What if I told you it’s a free download? Word. The Honorable Sleaze has let loose his latest gem on blocSonic for your downloading pleasure. Fifteen essential tracks deep, “This Funk” is packed with… Read more

New release: More Ripps… the new single “Can’t Stop Livin’”

Yo, here’s more of that real hip-hop for you to nod your head to. The 2nd single from Joey Ripps’ album “Son Of 1,000 Pardons”. Grab it so you don’t miss the two exclusive remixes by the one and only, Sleaze! Also available by Ripps is the first single “For… Read more