If Goose thinks he’s getting to cover Alanis, he’s in for a big surprise, because Insert Foot is vaxxed and ready for concerts. The crew at RIFF got the call this week … or maybe last week, but we got it: live music is back. Like fighter pilots in…

Insert Foot Vs. National Siblings Day. Saturday was Siblings Day, which we celebrate by posting photos on social media of siblings harmoniously pretending to get along, not trading blows and not throwing a deceased parent’s false teeth at each other at a funeral home. Don’t ask. I didn’t meet…

Who’s going to tell history’s most enduring and endearing power pop band it can’t make records anymore? Not me. In Another World Cheap Trick BMG, April 9 6/10 Cheap Trick has been releasing albums since the year Jimmy Carter took over for Gerald Ford. Their latest, In Another World, is their…

Insert Foot and Lil Nas X vs. the real Satan The pandemic must be over, the economy is obviously soaring, and everything is A-OK, situation normal, we’re all fine here … how are you? I’m great. Because Satan is back. I waxed nostalgic a while back over America again…

I’ve never felt the need to share a band’s liner or press notes in a review. But there aren’t a lot of bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The musical literacy and depth translate to the page, albeit at a smaller scale, when it comes to explaining new album…

Insert Foot Vs. “California sober” and Demi Lovato. Demi Lovato is as famous for confronting personal issues as for music, which is theoretically great. If it makes people uncomfortable, well … more people probably need to be uncomfortable. Life is sloppy cake and smearing pretty frosting on top just…

Insert Foot wants to go to Outside Lands. We’re on the clock, Bay Area. So get your shot together. Seven months. That’s how long we have until Outside Lands 2021, featuring Tame Impala, Lizzo, The Strokes, Tyler The Creator, Vampire Weekend, and more … on Halloween Weekend, Oct. 29-31.…

Insert Foot vs. Winston Marshall and the rule of responsible stupidity. Original photo: Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Don’t you hate it when someone, whose work you enjoy, does something really stupid? This week it was Mumford & Sons banjo player Winston Marshall, who last week tweeted to right-wing journalist Andy Ngo,…

Long Live Rock…Celebrate The Chaos, courtesy. Is rock dead? The question, seemingly an early point of new documentary “Long Live Rock…Celebrate the Chaos,” only works rhetorically. “Long Live Rock…Celebrate the Chaos” Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Halestorm and more, director Jonathan McHugh  Watch Now @ Home Cinema, Abramorama, March 12…

INSERT FOOT and NFTs. Original image courtesy: Karolina Grabowska. My editor sent me an important message today. Get to the bottom of this NFT stuff. Right … NFT … No (Freaking) Tony. On it. Wait, what? Apparently, NFT refers to an exciting new method by which musicians—“artists,” as my…