Filthy Friends include Corin Tucker and Peter Buck. Sleater-Kinney singer-guitarist Corin Tucker grew up as a fan of R.E.M. Eventually, the influential alt-rock musician befriended one of her heroes, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck. By 2012, both were living in Portland, Oregon. That year, Buck was working on a solo…

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…