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Issue 2 – Preview #3 – Tom Wilson’s About About: a songwriter’s perspective

The prompt for the second issue of Riffs declares that a song can be about anything. I agree. But should …

For a response to this brief I have composed this short work with three parts. Rather than exploring and extrapolating …

A song can be about anything, and a single song can be about (can mean) many different things to many …

The second issue of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music is out tomorrow – but here’s our front cover to keep you …

Call for Proposals The editorial team of ‘Riffs: Experimental research on Popular Music’ invite 300 word proposals for the next …

Journalistic coverage of music relies not only upon evocative and descriptive copy, but also on photographs which ideally capture the …

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 …