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The writers and photographers of New York Cool are your eyes on the street. From the bowels of the Lower East Side to the glitter of the Rainbow Room, we are constantly on the prowl, looking for the weird and the wonderful. New Yorkers are accomplished voyeurs; we look at each other and collective create [...]

Enter Music Publishing continues to prove its commitment to publishing the most creative, compelling drum/percussion mags. Their current issue of Traps Magazine features Lenny White and his reunion with seminal fusion group, Return To Forever. This issue of Traps Magazine, with an editorial mission to cover “The Art Of Drumming” maybe the most definitive history [...]

by Jason Warburg, The Daily Vault
http://www.dailyvault.com
Here we go again. Halfway through the slush pile, tossing ‘em aside like pancakes at a Little League fundraiser, and allofasudden whoooaaa Nellie. Hang on, we got us a keeper.
Peter Bloom is a singer-songwriter who learned all the right lessons from John, George, Ringo and especially Paul – not to [...]

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 [...]

By Mark Kirby, MusicDish e-Journal
When we last left John Corda, in the guise of drum ‘n’ bass superhero Mashed Buddha, on his full-length CD subdue your mind, he was adding elements, musical elements, to a genre that doesn’t go much past mechanical repetition in rhythm and bleating electro sounds for tunes. To this, he added [...]

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 [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE, RHYTHMIC RELEASE
San Jose, Calif., — Enter Music Publishing, publishers of diverse, hip drum/percussion magazine worldwide, has made available its January 2008 Issue of DRUM! In its interactive edition at www.drumdigital.com. The January Issue features the second-line strut of New Orleans drummer, Stanton Moore, hot licks of Mitch Mitchell and four emerging Cowboy drummers, [...]