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 …
A Popular Music Studies Journal
A song can be about anything, and a single song can be about (can mean) many different things to many …
The second issue of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music is out tomorrow – but here’s our front cover to keep you …
Call for Proposals The editorial team of ‘Riffs: Experimental research on Popular Music’ invite 300 word proposals for the next …
Journalistic coverage of music relies not only upon evocative and descriptive copy, but also on photographs which ideally capture the …
Drawing on my own personal memories of being involved in the British punk/anarcho-punk scene in the UK, in the late …
I was privileged to meet Robert Ashley at his TriBeCa apartment in May 2010. Over afternoon margaritas, we talked …
I can’t write a good opening sentence. I’m not a writer. I write music instead. ‘Locational Aesthetics: Squashing’ is a …
I can still remember it clearly: my brother’s red 1960s Garrard record player, with a unique smell that only electrical …
This piece examines the combination of words and music and the visceral effect and tangible quality of language itself. In …
Other contributors have responded to Mary Oliver’s prompt with valuable considerations of the roles phonetics and their so- …