Piper Westrom

San Francisco

Social Media Associate in the Sports Industry. Part-Time Writer for RIFF Magazine. Currently with The 33rd Team social media team.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Maren Morris heals with 'Dreamsicle'

1 month ago | riffmagazine.com | Piper Westrom

For her fourth major label album, Maren Morris doesn’t hold back. Dreamsicle plays on her country roots while dipping heavily into pop, furthering what she’s been doing for several years. It also showcases her vocal range and lyricism. The songs on her first record since 2022’s Humble Quest come together in a wonderfully holistic way as she uses music as medicine. Considering Morris’ divorce in late 2023, it’s no surprise that heartbreak fuels a lot of these songs.
ALBUM REVIEW: Dwight Yoakam eyes 'Brighter Days' on new LP

Nov 10, 2024 | riffmagazine.com | Piper Westrom

For the first time in nine years, Dwight Yoakam has returned with new material. Brighter Days is a 14-track offering with 11 originals and three artfully made covers. It’s a showcase of his unique rock-country style and his songwriting ability. Yoakam has been a country music mainstay since the late ’80s, enduring because of his authenticity and insistence on following his own path.
ALBUM REVIEW: Miranda Lambert reminisces over 'Postcards from Texas'

Sep 7, 2024 | riffmagazine.com | Piper Westrom

For her 10th album and her first, Miranda Lambert didn’t try to reinvent the wheel. The Texas native remains strong and unapologetic. Postcards from Texas brings her home stage to life through rich personal storytelling and collaborations with fellow Texans. Postcards from TexasMiranda LambertRepublic/Big Loud, Sept. 138/10Get the album on Amazon Music.
ALBUM REVIEW: George Strait calls on friends, family for 'Cowboys and Dreamers'

Aug 31, 2024 | riffmagazine.com | Piper Westrom

Listening to George Strait is like chatting with an old friend. It’s comforting and deeply enjoyable every time for classic country music fans. Cowboys and Dreamers is no different for the undisputed King of Country. It’s his 30th album of new material. The crooner comes back time and time again with those same smooth vocals. His latest has 13 feel-good guitar- and pedal-steel-driven songs, but this time around, he leans on his songwriting friends, including his son, Bubba, for the material.
ALBUM REVIEW: Rachel Platten mines personal struggle on her first LP since 2017

Aug 24, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Piper Westrom
ALBUM REVIEW: Rachel Platten mines personal struggle on her first LP since 2017

Aug 24, 2024 | riffmagazine.com | Piper Westrom

Rachel Platten built her identity on ideas of self-love and perseverance. These principles guided her music from her early independent years to the success of “Fight Song,” which remains a popular anthem thanks to TV syncs and reality competitions. Since 2017’s Waves, her last album, Platten had two daughters and grew, sometimes painfully, into the role of “mom.”I Am Rachel Platten Rachel PlattenViolet (Self-released), Sept. 37/10Get the album on Amazon Music.
ALBUM REVIEW: Luke Combs looks to his past and future on 'Fathers & Sons'

Jun 12, 2024 | riffmagazine.com | Piper Westrom

Luke Combs has been a busy man. Combs released albums in consecutive years, won ACM Awards and was nominated for seven Grammys, and is now selling out stadiums. He’s had a meteoric rise. But he remains a humble man who consistently reminds fans that he’s just like them. Fathers & Sons, his newest album, following Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old, is a poignant ode to new fatherhood. This album is a generational view of fatherhood, showing reverence to his own dad.
REVIEW: AJR puts on a spectacle at The Maybe Man Tour stop at Chase Center

Apr 30, 2024 | riffmagazine.com | Piper Westrom

SAN FRANCISCO — AJR concerts are experiences apart from the music, and the brotherly pop trio, which wouldn’t want it any other way, brought a spectacle, full of love and lots of dancing to Chase Center on Monday. Adam, Jack and Ryan Met jumped right into “Maybe Man,” the title track of their latest album and their current tour. The stage was filled with performers dressed just like Jack Met, but with their backs turned to the audience so you could never quite tell who was the real one.
ALBUM REVIEW: Kenny Chesney ‘BORN’ again on new LP

Mar 22, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Piper Westrom

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ALBUM REVIEW: Kenny Chesney 'BORN' again on new LP

Mar 22, 2024 | riffmagazine.com | Piper Westrom

Still living life to the fullest, country superstar Kenny Chesney is BORN again with a new 15-track album that’s comforting and familiar in the best ways. Chesney has written his fair share of feel-good anthems and BORN provides the latest singalongs. The title track, which opens the album, is quintessential Chesney, about going with the flow of life.