Issue 2 – Preview #1: Brian David Stephens’ photo essay
A song can be about anything, and a single song can be about (can mean) many different things to many …
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Riffs – Volume 1, Issue 2 – Front Cover
The second issue of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music is out tomorrow – but here’s our front cover to keep you …
Riffs – Volume 1 – Issue 2: CFP
Call for Proposals The editorial team of ‘Riffs: Experimental research on Popular Music’ invite 300 word proposals for the next …
Issue 1 Preview #8: Bethany Kane & Sarah Raine – The Felt Quality of Sound
Journalistic coverage of music relies not only upon evocative and descriptive copy, but also on photographs which ideally capture the …
Issue 1 Preview #7: Matt Grimes – How I Finally Learnt to Love Grindcore!
Drawing on my own personal memories of being involved in the British punk/anarcho-punk scene in the UK, in the late …
Issue 1 Preview #6: Ed McKeon – Read Aloud at 4am
I was privileged to meet Robert Ashley at his TriBeCa apartment in May 2010. Over afternoon margaritas, we talked …
Issue 1 Preview #5: Andy Ingamells – Locational Aesthetics: Squashing
I can’t write a good opening sentence. I’m not a writer. I write music instead. ‘Locational Aesthetics: Squashing’ is a …
Issue 1 Preview #4: Dave Kane – Bob Dylan: Nobility, Lyrics and Ghosts
I can still remember it clearly: my brother’s red 1960s Garrard record player, with a unique smell that only electrical …
Issue 1 Preview #3: Megan Sormus – The Savage Twisting of Vowels
This piece examines the combination of words and music and the visceral effect and tangible quality of language itself. In …
Issue 1 Preview #2: Alexander Hinksman – The Mastering Engineer: Manipulator of Feeling and Time
Other contributors have responded to Mary Oliver’s prompt with valuable considerations of the roles phonetics and their so- …