(By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Lead Journalist/Writer, RiffRelevant.com) The AVL (Asheville) based band Temptations Wings recently wrapped up an incredibly beneficial year for them, 2017, with…
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – (Staff) DAVID LAMAY Shares 55 Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) David ‘Sunshine’ LaMay has been with Riff Relevant since soon after I started this ship of mayhem. We unknowingly…
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – WO FAT’s MICHAEL WALTER Shares 18 Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) Wo Fat are not the evil villains of their namesake. Quite the opposite, in fact. This Texas trio are…
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – (Staff) PAT ‘RIOT’ WHITAKER Shares 25 LP / 25 EP Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) Oh, where to start… first off, Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker is essentially a walking mountain (literally and figuratively) of heavy…
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – GREENBEARD’s BUDDY HACHAR Shares 10 Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) Greenbeard were busy guys this past year of 2017. They toured in the Spring, put out a new release ‘Lödarödböl‘ in…
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – HEXXUS’ BILLY LUTTRELL Shares 15 Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) Birmingham, Alabama’s Hexxus is… well, to me – bliss. Grimy, dark, sludge covered, raging bliss. Hexxus is brutal, unrelenting, and…
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – (Staff) KIRA SCHLECHTER Shares 6 Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) Kira Schlechter is technically a ‘Guest Contributor’ here at RiffRelevant.com, but she contributes so much, we’re not letting her leave. …
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – DEMON EYE’s ERIK SUGG Shares 5 Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) Demon Eye sparked out of Raleigh, North Carolina around 2012, and is one of those bands that are truly fun to…
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – (Staff) SANTIAGO GUTIERREZ Shares ALL His Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) Santiago Gutierrez just joined us here at Riff Relevant. I don’t even have a bio for him on the…
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – (Staff) BRIAN HALSEY Shares 10 Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) Oh, Brian Halsey. One day, after what I presume was a rather overly festive Independence Day on his part,…
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – GHASTLY SOUND’s TJ MAYNARD Shares 10 Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) Burlington, Vermont’s Ghastly Sound is far from ghastly. They signed on a while back with Magnetic Eye Records, based in…
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – FISTULA’s COREY BING Shares 5 Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) The first time I heard Fistula, they scared the living hell out of me. This unnerving factor tends to…
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – (Staff) DAMON GRAVITOYD Shares 25 Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) Damon ‘Gravitoyd’ Caraway jumped in with both feet as a writer here at Riff Relevant many months ago. He’s brought…
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – ZED’s MARK ACEVES Shares 10 Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) ZED. What can I say about them? Well, ZED is one of the bands that kick-started me back into writing…