As Ikebe Shakedown’s Nadav Nirenberg talked about his band over the phone last week, a kaleidoscope of muffled horns echoed in the background. The funk band was in the middle of a recording session at its Brooklyn studio, Hive Mind Recording. The Brooklyn instrumental septet is comprised of two…

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 best…