Roman Gokhman
Editor-in-Chief at RIFF Magazine
Editor at Healthline
EIC: @RIFFonline. Editor: @Healthline. Bay Area journalist. Formerly at Oakland Tribune & Mercury News. Tweets ≠ support, but if it's RIFF, I support my staff.
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3 weeks ago |
riffmagazine.com | Roman Gokhman
SAN FRANCISCO — Australian Kylie Minogue has been a pop star internationally since the late ’80s and has occasionally made inroads in North America, from the Carole-King-penned early career hit “The Loco-Motion” to 2001’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head.” Yet the interest in her music here has never matched that of other parts of the world. Her previous tour in the U.S., as well as a Bay Area concert, was all the way back in 2011. What changed?
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1 month ago |
riffmagazine.com | Roman Gokhman
Neither Julien Baker nor Torres (Mackenzie Scott) came up as country musicians. Baker played in Memphis punk bands before making a name for herself as an open-hearted singer-songwriter and then one-third of supergroup boygenius. Georgia native Torres is garage rock artist. Yet a chance encounter led to the two playing a country song at a show and making promises to record an album.
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riffmagazine.com | Roman Gokhman
As a member of eclectic, freewheeling, 10-member L.A. collective NOFUN!, Levi Evans is all about fun and bravado. The group, which includes members from the Bay Area, Chicago, the East Coast, France—and in the case of Evans himself, Ireland—came together to play parties and show off the members’ individual talents, from pop to hip-hop. Evans, 25, has been performing and making music since high school in L.A., when he got his start in a similarly juvenile (his words) music group with friends.
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riffmagazine.com | Roman Gokhman
SAN FRANCISCO — Playing its first Bay Area concert in three years, Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand blasted through a 20-song set at the Warfield on Friday. The quintet, which is touring a fantastic new album, shuffled fan favorites and new tunes in equal measure.
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riffmagazine.com | Roman Gokhman
While Toronto-area native Bria Salmena partnered with several friends—some of whom she’s been making music with for years—for her new album, she describes the finished work, Big Dog, as her most personal. Bria Salmena7 p.m., Saturday, April 5Make Out Room, 3225 22nd St., San FranciscoTickets: $18-$21.05. She was the singer in Toronto post-punk quartet FRIGS, all of whom became Orville Peck’s backing band as he pursued country music around 2018.
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