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 …
A Popular Music Studies Journal
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- …
In Defiance of Any Sense of Normalcy is a long-term photographic and ethnographic project that focuses on the Northern Soul …
The first issue of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music is out tomorrow – but here’s our front cover to keep you …
This is the online home of Riffs – a new Popular Music Studies Journal, created by post-graduate researchers in the …