Editorial Board
Managing Editors
Sarah Raine, Ireland – gender; jazz and improvised music; festivals; music industries; ethnography; collaborative / co-produced research; northern soul; Irish trad; pubs.
Iain A. Taylor, UK – materiality; cassette tapes; vinyl; spatiality; live music venues; music industries; collecting practice; COVID-19.
Nick Gebhardt, UK – jazz; popular music in American culture; improvised music; jazz history; jazz and its audiences; jazz and philosophy; musicals; collectives.
Peer Review Manager
Sharon Kong-Perring, USA – K-Pop; popular music and curatorial work; K-Pop fandoms; live music performances; ethnography; autoethnography; gender.
Social Media Manager
Anika Babel – UK/Ireland – piano and popular culture; instruments; materiality; women; music in film.
Riffs|OPEN Editor
Nick Gebhardt, UK (contact: riffsjournal@gmail.com)
Riffs Radicals Manager
Asya Draganova, UK – DIY and independent music scenes; subcultures; post-communist transitions; music and myth; heavy metal; Canterbury sound; music heritage; ethnography.
Review Editor
Mathieu Berbiguier, USA – K-Pop; Korean popular culture; queer media; popular music and authenticity; music fandom.
Editorial Board
Jenny Ann Cubin, UK – popular musicology, ecofeminism, ecomusicology, female pastoral expression and popular music, music analysis, musical articulations of trauma and resistance, and practices of listening.
Craig Hamilton, UK – Harkive Project; popular music reception practices; digital, data and Internet technologies; music consumption; live music mapping; venues; Brexit and the music industries; festivals.
Edmund Hunt, UK – composition; practice-based research; instrumental, vocal, and electroacoustic music; spectral music; contemporary composition in Ireland.
David Kane, UK – hauntology; music and memory; songwriting and lyrics; pedagogy; musical fandoms.
Deanne Kearney, Canada –popular performance, hip-hop, gender, queer identity, historiography, arts funding, arts impact.
Ed McKeon, UK – aesthetics; philosophy of music/art; contemporary art and curatorial theory; collaborative research; practice research; experimental musical practices; arts schools and pop.
Chris Mapp, UK – creative practice; improvised music; audience engagement; collaborative research.
Designers
Lead designer: Anika Babel (2026–); Iain Taylor (2021-2026)
Front cover design: Adam Kelly-Williams
Ian Davies Photo: Photography and Art Direction (front cover for all full issues)
Guest Designers: Rosie Clark (Front cover design Vol 5 Issue 1); Laura Chen (Vol 3 Issues 1 & 2); Rhiannon Davies (Vol 2 Issues 1 & 2); Beth Kane (Vol 1 Issues 1 & 2 and 2017 Zine Special Issue).