The best albums of 2021 include Jackson Browne, J Balvin, Cheekface, Jame Blake, Tori Amos, Billy Gibbons, IDLES, Paul Weller, Jon Batiste, Rostam, The Killers and Between the Buried and Me. Welcome back to RIFF’s top album countdown! If you’re here just to complain about the order or lack…

The music of bluesman Jimmy Reed was one of the notable influences on the nascent Rolling Stones in the early 1960s. And even if Ronnie Wood didn’t become a Stone until the late 1970s, it’s clear from his new album, Mr. Luck – A Tribute To Jimmy Reed: Live…

Less than a year after releasing his last solo album, On Sunset, Paul Weller is back with a follow-up. The former frontman for the legendary band The Jam once again arrives like an impeccably dressed guest at the soiree on Fat Pop (Volume 1). More than mere Britishness, Weller’s…

Paul Weller is practically royalty in his native Britain. The former frontman for the punk band The Jam, and the more musically sophisticated The Style Council, sits in the pantheon of British rock gods alongside David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Roger Waters, universally acknowledged as a musical legend. On…

Since the release of his 1977 debut LP, In The City, Paul Weller has continuously broken boundaries as a musician. With his 25th overall studio album, A Kind Revolution, he continues to impress. A Kind Revolution Paul Weller May 12 Recorded at his Black Barn Studio, A Kind Revolution embodies the essence of Weller’s…