Volume 2, Issue 1 – Camilla Aisa – Words and Guitar, I got it
This piece by Camilla Aisa follows two parallel storylines, separated in time and location – on one side, San Francisco and …
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Volume 2, Issue 1 – Santiago Fernández Sánchez – A Walk Through Music Forums
We are the children of the internet. We were raised on a diet of a trolls, sockpuppets, avatars and signatures. …
Volume 2, Issue 1 – Neli Nedeva-Voeva and Asya Draganova – A New Generation Forever: The (Bulgarian) Revolution Goes On
“The 1980s: A time I will never be able to remember, yet, at the same time, will always remain incapable of forgetting, as it keeps capturing …
Riffs – Volume 2 – Issue 2: CfP
Call for Proposals The editorial team of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music and guest editor Simon Jones (author of …
Riffs: Producing a ‘zine-journal in day
Introducing Riffs: Surge in Spring II special zine issue This blog post is about some recent activity from BCMCR (Birmingham …
Riffs – Volume 2 – Issue 1: CFP
Call for Proposals The editorial team of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music invite 300 word / one page of …
Riffs – Volume 1, Issue 2 – October 2017
Issue 2 of Riffs: Experimental writing on popular music is here! The theme for this issue is Songwriting, and contributors …
Issue 2 – Preview #9: Katie Rochow’s Aotearoa: picturing the lyrics of the land
Music-making in the city constitutes and is constituted by a plurality of urban rhythms including the movement of people between …
Issue 2 – Preview #8: Leon Clowes’ How can you sing a song if you have no voice?
In the mid-1990s, I was the London Project Co-ordinator for Drake Music, a charity pioneering the use of technology to …
Issue 2 – Preview #7: Adriano Tedde’s Bone Machine: What the hell is Tom Waits singing about?
Is it possible to detect the meaning of a song from its sound? And what if the song is written …