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Volume 8, Issue 1 – December 2024
Volume 7, Issue 2 – February 2024
Volume 7, Issue 1 – October 2023
Special Issue – Zine Your Thesis – June 2023
Volume 6, Issue 2 – February 2023
Volume 6, Issue 1 – August 2022
Special Issue – Riffs ft. IASPM Canada – March 2022
Volume 5, Issue 2 – December 2021
Volume 5, Issue 1 – August 2021
Volume 4, Issue 2 – December 2020
Volume 4, Issue 1 – July 2020
Volume 3, Issue 2 – November 2019
Special Issue – Home of Metal – July 2019
Volume 3, Issue 1 – April 2019
Special Issue – Building The Scenes, Prague – February 2019
Volume 2, Issue 2 – December 2018
Special Issue – IASPM ‘Crosstown Traffic’ – September 2018
Volume 2, Issue 1 – July 2018
Special Issue – Surge in Spring – April 2018
Volume 1, Issue 2 – Oct. 2017
Special Edition – Beyond Borders – July 2017
Volume 1, Issue 1 – Feb. 2017
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Keith Kahn-Harris and Ann Morgan – An Experiment in Musical Comprehension – March 2023
Rômulo Moraes – Three Theories of the Musical Gem: Weird Aesthetics, Minoritarian Composition, and the Alchemy of the Evening
Aaron Moorehouse – ‘Can you Not?’: Non-Performance in New Music
Jessica A Schwartz & Simon Paton – Analysis of “Throwing Shade (No, Fuck you)” (2019)
Pei Ann Yeoh – Was I Only Imagining It?
Lee Griffiths, Chris Mapp + Nic Pillai – Jazz Short Takes
Jon Bounds – February 2019
Keith Kahn-Harris – November 2018
Book Reviews
Book Review-“Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok,” Deanne Kearney
Gig Review-“The Power (And Pitfalls) of Parasociality and Internet Celebrity in the Mediation of K-Pop Music Festivals: A Review of We Bridge Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada,” Sharon Kong-Perring
Book Review- “Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage,” Jenny Cubin.
Book Review, “Ripped, Torn and Cut” by the Subcultures Network (eds)
The Beatles by Ian Inglis
Yodeling and Meaning in American Music by Timothy E. Wise
Events
Riffs Ft. IASPM-Canada – Zine-in-a-Day March 2022
Writing With Noise
Special Issue – IASPM ‘Crosstown Traffic’ – September 2018
Riffs | RADICALS
Cyber Backlash: Resistance as an Act of Retraining An Online Zine
AfroFlux Workshop on Afrofuturism – October 2018
How I learned to love… Mod/Ska/2 Tone/Rockabilly: A Timeline
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