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PREMIERE: SF’s The Love Dimension tackles tour life with ‘How Many Miles’ video
Drawing from the feral energy of grunge and the mind-altering haze of ’60s psychedelia, The Love Dimension bridges the gap between three decades with a knack for infectious riffs and fire-starting hooks. The San Francisco denizens…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Jan. 15
Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to…
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RIFF REWIND: Best acoustic covers, with Jonathan Coulton, Bahamas and Eric Clapton
Turns out this whole coming up with a column idea every week thing is, like, really hard. Like… really hard. Have you ever had to come up with a thing every week? It’s crazy, man. To…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Jan. 8
Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms such as Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time…
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REWIND is back! Starting with Donna Summer, 4 others I forgot the first time
Last week I finished the yearlong journey through the last half-century of music. It was quite the project; 52 weekly columns each taking on a year and culminating in the best five songs of 2018.…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Jan. 1
The new year obviously poses near-infinite possibilities, but you can always count on RIFF to scour the internet for choice cuts, each and every week. We’re back in full swing for another year of awesome…
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The RIFF Tuesday Tracks writers pick their favorite finds of 2018
This is the second year the RIFF staff has compiled our weekly new music column, Tuesday Tracks, highlighting standout tunes that were, perhaps, flying under the radar. And what a productive year 2018 was. Chloe Catajan, Max Heilman, Vic…
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RIFF REWIND 2018: Childish Gambino, Bad Wolves and Ghost
We made it! This is the 52nd RIFF Rewind and the last year of our musical journey through my esoteric and idiosyncratic tastes, not to mention my often sesquipedalian ramblings about that music. I don’t know…
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RIFF REWIND 2017: Kendrick Lamar, Thundercat and Jidenna
In addition to ranking music, I am a professional data journalist. I analyze numbers and do math every day for money. So you’d think I could count. But apparently we skipped Feb. 24 for some…
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PLAYLIST: Behind the scenes with Roman Gokhman’s year in interviews
I think this column is morphing into more of a “my favorite Roman stories” list, but what still holds true is that memorable interviews still lead better stories. I tell the RIFF staff, which includes…
