Falling Up - Chris Shinn
Shinn's latest offering is the album he needed to make and the one we needed to hear Photo credit - L DG Lucia De Giovanni One thing...
Music & Merch
As traditional record sales have gone away, selling merchandise is one of the only consistent ways for artists to make money...but it's...
Toadies Are Alive And Well
Fort Worth rock veterans owned the crowd at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey Photo credit - Michael Kravetsky/Watermrk Studios...
A Superstar Is Born
Dave Grohl debuts with Nirvana 32 years ago today No one could've predicted that a skinny punk rock drummer from the Washington D.C....
Getting Better With Age
R.E.M.'s 1992 album Automatic For The People still sounds amazing 30 years later Automatic For The People was released in the United...
Slacker: 1991, Teen Spirit Angst, and the Generation It Created
A behind-the-scenes look at this crazy journey as I write my first book For those of you who've known me since the late 80s/early 90s,...
Nirvana's Nevermind Turns 31 Today
With over 75 million albums sold, billions of streams, and generations of fans, Nirvana is still relevant 31 years after its iconic...
Can Musicians Get Paid Fairly In The Age Of Streaming?
The United States Senate introduces the American Music Fairness Act More than a year after the American Music Fairness Act (AMFA) made...
Brains, Beats, and Bars
My conversation with Hip-Hop producer and Ph.D., Configa Artistry comes in many forms. Technical skill, hours, and years of practice in...
Chuck D of Public Enemy Agrees to Sell Music Catalog
In what's becoming one of the hottest trends in the music industry, Chuck D of the iconic Public Enemy has agreed with Reach Music...
It's Called Gratitude, And That's Right
Celebrating the life and music of Beastie Boys Adam Yauch (MCA) on what would've been his 58th birthday Today is my daughter's birthday....
Music For Insight & Regard, But Mostly, For The FKN Love
Arrested Development's latest album just might be their best. My conversation with Speech about this and much more. “When the hard stuff...
Snap, Crackle, Play
Those pops and hisses you hear when you drop the needle on the record are anticipatory bliss Listening to music is supposed to be a...
Generation Riff - The Podcast
We started with the Abandoned Albums podcast, added Generation Riff to the fold, and are plotting even more future excitement! Generation...
10 Years Gone But Never Forgotten
Remembering Beastie Boys founding member, Adam Yauch (MCA) on the 10th anniversary of his death Earlier this week, May 4th to be exact,...
Let The Music Jump Off The Page
Reading, writing, and discussing music books are an underrated part of music fandom There's something about the written word, no matter...
East To West And Back Again
Adam Silvestri of Radiator King rocks the East Coast again "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the...
90s Alternative Comes Roaring Back...And It's The Girls Who Are Doing It
Mega-star Olivia Rodrigo pays homage to 90s Alt-rockers, Veruca Salt, and the internet goes nuts Photo credits - Olivia Rodrigo (Emma...
752 Days Later...Live Music Comes Back Into My Life
The Menzingers at Starland Ballroom 4/2/22 Photo by author Let's go back a bit, shall we? The date was March 11. 2020 and my life (and...
Remember This Song?
Volume I - 1991 An exclusive Generation Riff look at a song you know, possibly love, but may have forgotten about Welcome back to another...