Craig Hamilton

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 …

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 …