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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1 week 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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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1 month 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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