Riffs

I was privileged to meet Robert Ashley at his TriBeCa apartment in May    2010. Over afternoon margaritas, we talked …

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 …