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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Jan. 19
Clockwise from top left: Woodlock, CLAUD, Kalbells, Noga Erez, Charlotte Cardin, and Haviah Mighty with Old Man Saxon. 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…
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REWIND: The youths like sea shanties, so let’s hear some modern shanties
Site of former sea shanties, as well as Alestorm’s current ones. There’s always some tension between our illustrious editor Roman Gokhman and I when it comes to this column. He, being the King of RIFF, cares about stuff like SEO and reader interest and boring things like that. I,…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Jan. 12
Clockwise from top left: Divide and Dissolve, KILLBOY, JC Stewart, shotty, SORAIA and Bailey Bryan. 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…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Jan. 5
Clockwise from top left: Mitchell Tenpenny, The New Mastersounds, Matt Jaffe, Aly and AJ, Amanda Shires and Another Sky. Every week brings a plethora of new music to our ears. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles,…
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REWIND: Bask in a glimmer of optimism for 2021 with The Beatles & Alicia Keys
Here comes—let’s be realistic here—the slightly less overcast sun, with the Beatles. You’re reading this in 2021. That means you made it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m under no impression that 2021 will immediately be all sunshine and rainbows. We’re still in the midst of a plague that should…
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Tuesday Tracks: RIFF’s best finds of 2020
Clockwise from top left: Mr. Bungle, Charlie Burg, Kurt Baker, Mobley, Teenage Wrist and Secret Machines. If there’s one silver lining in the dark cloud of 2020, it’s that staying at home has left much more time open for listening to new music. We on the Tuesday Tracks crew…
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PLAYLIST: Behind the scenes with Roman Gokhman’s year in interviews
Roman Gokhman writes about some of his favorite interviews of the year: Loyal Lobos; Damian Lillard; Allan Rayman; Lindsey Stirling; Brandon Leake; James Hersey; Rufus Wainwright; Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner and Pekka Kuusisto; Vincint; Fantastic Negrito; RAC; Micky Dolenz; Mathilde Froustey; Lisa Loeb; All We Are; and Hailey Whitters.…
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RIFF REWIND 2020: Run the Jewels, Taylor Swift and Poppy
Taylor Swift, courtesy: Beth Garrabrant. Way, way back in 2018, long before the sickness came, I had the crazy idea to list my five (or so) songs of every year from 1967 to the then-present day of 2018. Amazingly, I actually did it. It was a lot of years…
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Holiday Tuesday Tracks: Your source for the best new holiday jams
L to R. Row 1: Finneas, Carly Rae Jepsen, BANNERS, August Burns Red, Lil Nas X. Row 2: Lights, Black Pumas, Chloe Flower, Ben Caplan, Liam Payne. Row 3: Dallas Smith, ROZEI, Dashboard Confessional, Dee Snider with Lzzy Hale, Josie Dunne. No one could have expected that 2020’s Holiday…
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REWIND: Pearl Jam, Beck and other minimally objectionable Christmas songs
Pearl Jam performs at Oracle Arena in Oakland on Nov. 26, 2013. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. First off, yes, I’m doing the Christmas column nearly a week before Christmas. It’s the last pre-Christmas column. Blame the concept of time. Anyway, at the risk of going full Grinch on you, I can’t…