Punk

Last year I read a story from Nichola Scurry here on Medium that opened my eyes to something that my friends and I have inherently known all our lives, but never quite consciously realized. We aren’t Baby Boomers! Nichola had seen a documentary on the early punk rock scene where…

there is a green day song that was only released on the soundtrack of a movie that no one has ever seen, and isnt’ even worth naming here. it’s an early green day song back when they were a punk trio from the east bay (Berkeley, CA). i remember waiting…

Sometimes flipping the bird is the only decent thing to do — Sum-41 got me into skateboarding, until I busted my head and needed it glued shut. That was years ago when pop punk was doing crail grabs over other genres, but the band has remained active. Underclass Hero (Island, 2007) has the hooks and melodies, energy and emotion that made classics…

What does music sound like when it is created with the help of artificial intelligence? Matthias Frey explored this and brought a legendary rock band back to life in the process. Sounds and AI are part of his everyday professional life in his job as Chief Analyst Technology for a global electronics company. Completely computer-generated songs are still dreams of the future … but for Matthias Frey the following is clear: there is nothing that humans can do that an AI won’t be able to do one day.

When you need mo’ -mo, there’s screamo — According to Saosin’s profile on AllMusic, the band’s name comes from the Chinese word for caution. The characters are 小心 and mean small of heart, which the band most definitely is not. The emotion packed into every acclaimed riff, every infectious chorus, every frenetic drum fill on the band’s self-titled…

Since joining The Riff, I’ve been focusing on women's history in American popular music leading up to and including rock. That history is far richer than most people realize: Much of it was erased from canonical histories until recently. …