Guest Music Bloggers

One is rock (Joan As Police Woman-Joan Wasser), another is an iconic singer / songwriter (Ron Sexsmith), Kimmie Rhodes is a legendary country / pop singer / songwriter, whose covered tunes have been certified platinum many times over, Meaghan Smith is a rising star, who recreates vintage jazz sounds from the 1920’s and ’30s in [...]

Music for Meditation, Reflection or Therapy, Day or Night
An Interview with the NightDancers
By Mark Kirby

When you ask someone why he or she likes a band, performer or style of music, the usual response is either, “they’re awesome,” “they rock” or “it’s fun stuff.” People tend to say that music is simply for entertainment. And as [...]

The “Music and Spirit” blog now has a new feature, called “Awesome Artist of the Month”, which consists of an interview with an (awesome) artist (duh!) combined with a song by that artist on the profile page of the blog.
For those who are just hopelessly “out of the loop” { } and still have [...]

Acoustic pop / electronica—country / Americana—folk—jazz/urban–jazz standards
We have the interviews, CD reviews and live performance reviews. They are available for you to read at Riveting Riffs Magazine (www.rivetingriffs.com)

Jazz saxophonist Loren Stillman took time recently to talk to Riveting Riffs Magazine about his current album, Blind Date. Read the exclusive interview at www.rivetingriffs.com. Click the tab for Interviews and then go to our jazz interviews page.
While you are visiting stay a while longer and check out our reviews of Judy Wexler’s jazz standards [...]

Texas singer/songwriter/guitarist Owen Temple, recently completed his first major country music tour in several years. The tour touched down in five different states and he took time out to talk about the tour and his current album. Riveting Riffs has the exclusive interview on our front page, www.rivetingriffs.com

You read that title correctly! Dana Leong is one of the most exciting young artists on the music scene today and Riveting Riffs Magazine has an exclusive interview with Dana, in which he talks about his recent European and North American tours, his current album and his film project. Check it out on [...]

On December 11, 2006, Wildflowers Records singer-songwriter Amy Speace was in NY for a live interview on WFUV 90.7 FM’s “Folk Sunday Breakfast with John Platt.” Now her live performances on the show, including songs ‘The Real Thing,’ ‘Dreamin’ and ‘Step Out of the Shade’, are exclusively available through social network site ReverbNation at http://www.reverbnation.com/amyspeace
This [...]

This week’s edition of Riveting Riffs www.rivetingriffs.com features interviews with the lead singer of Pink Martini, China Forbes, as she discusses her solo career and her new pop album.
Check out our country music coverage, as we sit down and talk to Texas singer/songwriter/guitarist Owen Temple, and review concerts by Tift Merritt and Sara Watkins [...]

This week in Riveting Riffs meet:
Raya Yarbrough — reshaping jazz an alternative jazz artist
Adrienne Pierce — an alternative pop artist, read Adrienne’s blog and our interview coming later in the week
China Forbes — lead singer for Pink Martini.
Adrienne and Raya are on the front page now, and China will join them by the end of [...]