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Riff (other)
A riff is an example of ostinato, a short, repeated musical phrase. Riff, RIFF, The 'Riff, or Riffs may also refer to: Acronyms * Rajasthan International Folk Festival * Resource Interchange File Format * ReykjavÃk International Film Festival * Riverside International Film Festival * Rome Independent Film Festival Fictional characters * Riff (dinosaur), on ''Barney & Friends'', a supporting character from 2006 to 2018. * Riff, a character in Allegra’s Window * Riff (''Sluggy Freelance'') * Riff, the leader of the Jets in '' West Side Story'' * Riff Randle, protagonist of the Ramones film '' Rock 'n' Roll High School'' * The Riffs, a gang in the film '' The Warriors'' Music * Riff (American band), a 1980s/1990s rhythm and blues vocal group * Riff (Argentine band) a hard rock band * ''Riffs'' (Status Quo album), 2003 * ''Riffs'' (Jimmy Lyons album) * "The Riff" (Lordi song), 2013 * The Riffs, American band * "Riff", a song by Sander van Doorn from '' Supernaturalistic' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riff
A riff is a repeated chord progression or refrain in music (also known as an ostinato figure in classical music); it is a pattern, or melody, often played by the rhythm section instruments or solo instrument, that forms the basis or accompaniment of a musical composition. Though riffs are most often found in rock music, heavy metal music, Latin, funk, and jazz, classical music is also sometimes based on a riff, such as Ravel's Boléro. Riffs can be as simple as a tenor saxophone honking a simple, catchy rhythmic figure, or as complex as the riff-based variations in the head arrangements played by the Count Basie Orchestra. David Brackett (1999) defines riffs as "short melodic phrases", while Richard Middleton (1999) defines them as "short rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic figures repeated to form a structural framework". Rikky Rooksby states: "A riff is a short, repeated, memorable musical phrase, often pitched low on the guitar, which focuses much of the energy and excitement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riffs (Status Quo Album)
''Riffs'' is the twenty-sixth studio album by the English rock band Status Quo, released in November 2003. Ten tracks were cover versions of pop and rock standards, the other five were re-recordings of songs they had previously issued during the 1970s. The initial release also included a bonus 9-track DVD, featuring footage recorded for television programs and also the video for the 2002 Top 20 hit 'Jam Side Down', recorded on HMS ''Ark Royal''. This was originally planned to be released one week after the album "Heavy Traffic", but was pushed back in time by the record company. The booklet includes studio (non-performing) pictures of the group taken at Powderham Castle, Devon, where they played a gig shortly before completing the album. UK Track listing #"Caroline" ( Rossi, Young) 4:54 #"I Fought The Law" (Curtis) 3:04 #"Born To Be Wild" (Bonfire) 4:31 #" Takin' Care of Business" ( Bachman) 5:07 #" Wild One" ( O'Keefe, David Owens, Johnny Greenan) 3:47 #" On The Road Again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRIF
WRIF (101.1 FM) is a commercial active rock radio station licensed in Detroit, Michigan and serving Metro Detroit as well as bordering city Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The station is currently owned by Beasley Media Group. WRIF is a grandfathered FM station, Under current U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) limits for Class B stations, WRIF would be allowed to broadcast an effective radiated power (ERP) of at most 16,000 watts using an antenna 268 meters high. The station transmitter is in the Detroit suburb of Southfield near the intersection of 10 Mile Road and Northwestern Highway, and transmits its signal from the same tower as WXYZ-TV. WRIF's studios are in Ferndale. History WXYZ-FM 101.1 FM signed on in 1948 as WXYZ-FM. For most of the station's early years, the station was simply a simulcast of WXYZ AM 1270 (now WXYT AM). That changed in 1966, when the FCC decreed separate programming for at least half of the broadcast day on FM stations that had been simulcasts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MSTing
''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' (abbreviated as ''MST3K'') is an American science fiction comedy film review television series created by Joel Hodgson. The show premiered on KTMA-TV (now WUCW) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 24, 1988. It then moved to nationwide broadcast, first on The Comedy Channel/ Comedy Central for seven seasons until its cancellation in 1996. Thereafter, it was picked up by The Sci-Fi Channel and aired for three more seasons until another cancellation in August 1999. A 60-episode syndication package titled ''The Mystery Science Theater Hour'' was produced in 1993 and broadcast on Comedy Central and syndicated to TV stations in 1995. In 2015, Hodgson led a crowdfunded revival of the series with 14 episodes in its eleventh season, first released on Netflix on April 14, 2017, with another six-episode season following on November 22, 2018. A second successful crowdfunding effort in 2021 will bring at least 13 additional episodes to be shown through th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penrith, New South Wales
Penrith is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located in Greater Western Sydney, 55 kilometres (31 mi) west of the Sydney central business district on the banks of the Nepean River, on the outskirts of the Cumberland Plain. Its elevation is 32 metres (105 ft). Penrith is the administrative centre of the Local government in Australia, local government area of the City of Penrith. The Geographical Names Board of New South Wales acknowledges Penrith as one of only four List of cities in Australia, cities within the Greater Sydney metropolitan area. History Indigenous settlement Prior to the arrival of the Europeans, the Penrith area was home to the Mulgoa tribe of the Darug people. They lived in makeshift huts called ''gunyahs'', hunted native animals such as kangaroos, fished in the Nepean River, and gathered local fruits and vegetables such as yams. They lived under an elaborate system of law which had its origins in the Dreamtime. Most of the Mulgoa were kil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everyday Shooter
''Everyday Shooter'' (known as ''Riff: Everyday Shooter'' in the PAL region) is a multidirectional shooter developed by Jessica Mak and released for Microsoft Windows in 2006. Development ''Everyday Shooter'' was developed in the span of a few months by Jessica Mak using Visual C++. After her last project, Gate 88, which Mak called a "complicated mess of rules and controls", Mak desired to make a much simpler game. Initially the game started out as a puzzle game inspired by Mak's interest in Lumines and Every Extend Extra, however Mak had trouble with this route and decided instead to turn the game into a shooter. In addition to programming and graphic design, Mak recorded and implemented an all-guitar soundtrack to the game. Sony Computer Entertainment took notice of the game at the 2007 Independent Gaming Festival and published it for the PlayStation 3 on October 11 as a downloadable game on the PlayStation Network. Gameplay ''Everyday Shooter'' is a dual-stick, multidir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Riff
''The Riff'' was an Australian music video request television show that aired 6 days on Channel hosted by Billy Russell, Danny Clayton, Carissa Walford and Marty Smiley. The show ran from 2013 to 2015. See also * List of Australian music television shows This is a list of Australian produced music television shows. Early days of music television pre-dated video clips, and included variety style series, miming series, and pop series, and with the advent of music videos, shows gave way to slickly ... * WhatUwant References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Riff, The Channel V Australia original programming Australian music chart television shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Desert Song
''The Desert Song'' is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. It was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Moroccan fighters, against French colonial rule. It was also inspired by stories of Lawrence of Arabia aiding native guerrillas. Many tales romanticizing Arab North Africa were in vogue, including ''Beau Geste'' and ''The Son of the Sheik''.Traubner, Richard. ''Operetta: A Theatrical History'', pp. 387–89 (2003) Routledge Originally titled "Lady Fair", after successful out-of-town tryouts in |
Supernaturalistic (album)
''Supernaturalistic'' is the debut album by Sander van Doorn. It was released in March 2008. The first single from the album, "The Bass" was released on February 18 of the same year. Reception With the release of the album, On April 4, 2008; Tiësto presented a special program for Sander van Doorn, on show 54 Tiësto's Club Life on Radio 538. The playlist included "Look Inside Your Head", "Riff", "15", "The Bass", "Grasshopper", and "Dozer". Track listing References {{Authority control 2008 debut albums Sander van Doorn albums ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Riffs
The Riffs are a rock and roll and punk band from Portland, Oregon. They have released three full-length albums, all on indie labels, namely Pelado Records, Vendetta Records, and TKO Records. Influences The Riffs are heavily influenced by early punk bands, most notably the Sex Pistols, whose influence can be heard most prominently in the guitars, Sham 69 and the Dead Boys (they paid tribute to the Dead Boys on the cover of "Dead End Dream"). Like other bands that played the first wave of punk music, they were also fans of Protopunk like Eddie and the Hot Rods and The Velvet Underground, as displayed by their cover of "Waiting for My Man" on ''Underground Kicks''. Song Content Throughout the first two LPs, ''Underground Kicks'' and ''Dead End Dream'', the songs and lyrics (written by all members of the band) tell a bleak story of growing up in the Portland punk scene, presumably in poverty, afflicted with drug addiction, the repercussions of drug abuse, regret about past viole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Riff (Lordi Song)
"The Riff" is a song by Finnish hard rock band Lordi. It is the first and only single from the album ''To Beast or Not to Beast'', released on 8 February 2013. The band has also made a music video for the song. It's also the first Lordi song that has been released also as an official lyrics video. Lordi performed "The Riff" in a German television competition ''Wok WM'' in 2013. The song is also featured in a ''Pinball Rocks'' app game. Track listing # "The Riff" (3:47) Music video The music video of "The Riff" was filmed exclusively in Czech Republic, in a local supermarket ''Albert''. The video was filmed by Martin Muller. A Czech playmate Dominika Jandlova is featured in the video. The music video got censored by the label Sony Music; they didn't let Dominika Jandlova appear naked in the video. The song The lyrics speak figuratively about a near-death experience narrated in the first person. The narrator meets and is offered transport by the grim reaper, which he tries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riffs (Jimmy Lyons Album)
''Riffs'' is a live album by American saxophonist Jimmy Lyons. It was recorded on September 13–14, 1980 at Le Dreher, a jazz club in Paris, and was released in 1982 on the hat MUSICS label. The album features Lyons on alto saxophone, Karen Borca on bassoon, Jay Oliver on bass, and Paul Murphy on drums. Reception In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "For one of his very infrequent recordings outside of the realm of Cecil Taylor, altoist Jimmy Lyons teams up with the talented jazz bassoonist Karen Borca, bassist Jay Oliver and drummer Paul Murphy for lengthy and rather adventurous versions of 'Theme' and 'Riffs #1/II' plus the brief 'Riffs #1/I' which serves as a prelude to the longer 'Riffs.' It is always intriguing to hear Lyons stretching out without a piano and this set helped make listeners aware of Borca's brilliant playing on the rarely utilized bassoon." Track listing All compositions by Jimmy Lyons. # "Theme" – 21:00 # "Riffs #1/I" – 3:35 # "Riffs #1/II" †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
