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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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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2 weeks ago |
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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3 weeks ago |
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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1 month ago |
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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riffmagazine.com | Roman Gokhman
Since she moved out of her house at 16, when her mom and stepdad moved from Seattle to the East Coast, but she refused to uproot her life, Tehya has lived on a houseboat, a house to a music collective in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, and a bed and breakfast where she got free room and board in exchange for work. sorry for the waitTEHYANeon Gold, March 7Singer-songwriter Tehya Vining, 24, moved to L.A. to pursue music full time in 2020—right before the start of the pandemic.
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