Author Archives: Shane Johnson
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Tuesday Tracks: Your weekly new music discovery
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 to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some of the…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Liars share sadness on Themes From Crying Fountain
Dark and wailing are the two words that pop to my mind when I think about the band Liars. The band has earned that over its first seven albums, and even though the band has changed, everything else has stayed the same on release of No. 8, TFCF, or, Themes from Crying Fountain.…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Queens of the Stone Age put modern spin on old styles with ‘Villains’
Queens of the Stone Age, “Villains.” If there is one thing you can count on from Queens of the Stone Age, it’s not to count on anything staying the same. Their new album, Villains, continues that trend and even adds some synthesizers to the group’s normal heavy guitar-driven rock. Villains…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your weekly new music discovery
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 to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some of the…
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Review: Cold War Kids and Joywave leave Boise wanting more
Joywave: Photos: Shane Johnson BOISE – It’s never easy opening a show, but Joywave seemed at ease as it settled into an all-too-quick set warming up the crowd for headliners Cold War Kids at the Knitting Factory in Boise on Aug. 10. Cold War Kids, Joywave 7 p.m., Monday Ace of Spades, Sacramento…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your weekly new music discovery
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 to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some of the…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your weekly new music discovery
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 to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some of the…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Neil Young takes us ‘hitchhiking’ on new old album
It’s hard to believe, but somewhere, there is a huge vault of music that we don’t know about. In this vault are the good, the bad and the forgotten songs of the world’s greatest musicians. Every so often, one of those musicians digs deep into that vault and brings…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your weekly new music discovery
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 to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some of the…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your weekly new music discovery
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 to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some…