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Introducing Riffs: Surge in Spring II special zine issue This blog post is about some recent activity from BCMCR (Birmingham …

Call for Proposals The editorial team of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music invite 300 word / one page of …

Issue 2 of Riffs: Experimental writing on popular music is here! The theme for this issue is Songwriting, and contributors …

Music-making in the city constitutes and is constituted by a plurality of urban rhythms including the movement of people between …

In the mid-1990s, I was the London Project Co-ordinator for Drake Music, a charity pioneering the use of technology to …

Is it possible to detect the meaning of a song from its sound? And what if the song is written …

Dan Wilson’s lyrics draw attention to the creative and artistic diverse stream of meanings and stories associated with popular music …

For my submission to Riffs Journal, I created a graphic music score for solo voice, using fragments from 12 different pop songs, ranging …

Many beloved or obscure psychedelic songs seem to adopt the image of a bicycle, silently yet persistently recurrent, as a …