Kat Norton, aka Miss Excel. TikTok screenshots. This week I learned that Excel influencers are a thing on TikTok. It’s possible all the youths know this but as I am brutally, cripplingly old and don’t have TikTok it was news to me that there’s a whole category of influencers…

Not Joan Jett. It’s Groundhog Day, which means one thing: It’s my mom’s birthday. Everyone say happy birthday to my mom! Also, it means that a weird giant rodent that looks kinda like a beaver’s slacker cousin gets pulled out of a fake stump by a man in a…

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…

  So dreamy Double-length edition again! I try to keep to my rules, but it was looking I’d have to cut either Sex Packets or Flood, and I’m just not going to do that. Turns out way too many of my favorite albums came out in 1990 to cut anything. And,…