The Doors (from bottom to top: Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore) stand on the stairs of a lifeguard tower in 1969. Photo by Henry Diltz/Corbis. On July 1, the Supreme Court ruled that if the President of the United States can justify something as an…

Steve Marriott of Humble Pie performs at The Miami Baseball Stadium in Miami on Feb. 2,1974. Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images. AI is going to kill us. You, me … your goldfish. Everyone and everything. But not before ruining everything, anyway. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. I’ve been downplaying this AI…

We’ve used this image a lot to end every year since 2016. Design: Roman Gokhman. There’s a tradition at RIFF, as well as most other sites, to spend the last week of the year doing Best-Of stories. Best of the site’s work, best of the year, best all sorts…

Original: The Beatles photographed at St. Pancras Old Church gardens in London on July 28, 1968. Courtesy. So the Beatles are releasing their new single this week. I do know it’s 2023 and half of them are dead. I don’t care. Well, I don’t want them to be dead.…

Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band perform at the Masonic in San Francisco on June 11, 2023. Gary Chancer/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Ringo Starr had a smart idea when he started his All-Starr Band in the late ’80s. Rather than solely covering the songs his former bandmates sang in…

Paul McCartney performs on the Got Back tour at Oakland Arena in Oakland on May 6, 2022. Steve Carlson/STAFF. OAKLAND — In all reality, Paul McCartney didn’t need any literal fireworks at his performance at Oakland Arena on Friday night—the first of a two-show stand in a city where…

Insert Foot on 10/10 album reviews, Gang of Youths’ “Angel in Realtime.” My colleague Ben Schultz just gave the new Gang of Youths record, Angel in Realtime, a perfect 10 out of 10 score, which sounds pretty perfect to me. What makes a perfect record? And is there such…

Dire Straits perform in Drammenshallen, Norway on Oct.. 22, 1985. Photo: Helge Øverås/Wikicommons. There’s still a war going on, and the plague is ongoing, and it’s 70 degrees out which means it’s gonna be like 115 during the summer. That means I don’t want to talk about current events.…

Insert Foot is loving Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” Beatles documentary. Phone lines and the internet burned all over the world this week, and it wasn’t people remarking how lifelike tofurkey tastes in 2021. The hubbub was about four guys playing music more than half a century ago, as well as…

Janis Joplin in 1970, courtesy Wikicommons. This is, somehow, inexplicably, the weekend before Thanksgiving. I was pretty sure it was an unusually cold August but I triple-checked the calendar and it’s definitely late November. Time is weird. Since my column runs on Saturday, that means this is also my…