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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2 weeks ago |
riffmagazine.com | Roman Gokhman
Whenever Seattle soul crooner Allen Stone happens to find himself in San Francisco at the beginning of a week, he makes time for Motown on Monday. Typically held at Madrone Art Bar near Alamo Square, this is where you can go to hear a DJ spin some classic R&B. Stone, who will be in town Sunday and Monday, performing at the Great American Music Hall, remembers the first time he was taken to MOM, as it’s known. A DJ transitioned from Stevie Wonder to Bobby Womack. “Dopest mix ever,” Stone said.
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1 month ago |
riffmagazine.com | Roman Gokhman
SAN FRANCISCO — It was impressive enough that K-pop superstars Stray Kids could sell out Oakland Arena a few years ago, but on their current dominATE World Tour, the octet is selling out stadiums, including Oracle Park on Wednesday and two gigs at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles later this week.
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1 month ago |
riffmagazine.com | Roman Gokhman
CONCORD, Calif. — As it turns out, the universal language is “la, la-la-la-la.”“Let’s try something different,” Simple Minds frontman shouted around the eight-minute mark of an 11-minute rendition of the band’s biggest hit, “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” at Toyota Pavilion. The song fell at the tail end of the main set, and by this time, attendees needed no prompting to sing and vocalize along with Kerr.
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1 month ago |
riffmagazine.com | Roman Gokhman
SAN FRANCISCO — Although iconic rock quintet The Go-Go’s last graced a San Francisco stage in 2022, riding the high of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, that was without original drummer Gina Schock, who’d sat out the reunion to recover from surgery. That makes the last time the five members played in the Bay Area all the way back in 2018.
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2 months 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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