Insert Foot calling for healing after the presidential election. When I went from writing about news to music, I had no idea what I was about to experience. And that was strange. I understood how much music meant to me and my crowd. Almost every memory for us was…

California Assembly Speaker pro Tempore Kevin Mullin (right) was a DJ in college. Courtesy photo. Politicians are people. It’s true! Despite what you hear on social media and cable news, elected officials are people more or less like us. They like TV and movies, they have friends, and, yes,…

In an album that focuses on the apprehensions of the future—apprehensions about robotics, politics and the Earth—all while preaching about honesty and peace, Neil Young manages to keep his countryman persona intact. Peace Trail, Young’s 37th studio album, is wrought with his famous sound of folk, rock, electric guitar…

Chance the Rapper. Matt De Mello/STAFF. The other day I wrote an column on where we, not just as a country, but as a world, go from here. That piece was unique for RIFF. Ours is not a political publication. However, some events transcend politics. Many of us are nervous, some…

It’s hard to write this because I am in pain. Not a physical agony, though it certainly feels that way, but instead a mental anguish of what happened during Tuesday night’s Presidential election. Regardless of what side you reside on it is easy to recognize that there are numerous…