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RIFF REWIND: Best acoustic covers, with Jonathan Coulton, Bahamas and Eric Clapton
Jonathan Coulton likes big butts, and will sing about it. 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 think Snoop does it…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Jan. 8
Yoste 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…
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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. Then RIFF’s editor, Roman, asked when I’d have this week’s column in. So… I…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – Jan. 1
King Shelter getting ready to shoot the music video for new single “Elixir.” 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 music!…
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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 Silva, Tarandeep Kaur and Matthew Eaton took shifts plunging into an ocean of songs…
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RIFF REWIND 2018: Childish Gambino, Bad Wolves and Ghost
America; animated by Childish Gambino. 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 how you made it this far. I stopped reading…
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RIFF REWIND 2017: Kendrick Lamar, Thundercat and Jidenna
Kendrick Lamar 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 reason and ran 1974’s column on March 2, which means everything got…
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PLAYLIST: Behind the scenes with Roman Gokhman’s year in interviews
Messing around with COIN at BottleRock Napa Valley on May 25, 2018. Photo: Roman Gokhman. 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…
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RIFF REWIND 2016: Bowie, Beyoncé, and—for one last time—Metallica
There will be entire chapters in future history books about 2016. Look, it was just a just a couple years ago. You lived through 2016. It was revealed on Monday that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent his beard hair to Azalea Banks to make an amulet to protect him…
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Kyle Kohner’s top 100 Songs of 2018 (25-1)
Mitski Kyle Kohner’s top 100 songs countdown reaches the finish line, with his 25 favorites. Catch up with part one, part two and part three here. 25. “4th Dimension” – Kids See Ghosts (Kid Cudi and Kanye West) Opened by an eerily distorted, but well-placed sample of Louis Prima’s “What Will…