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Author: Miles Raymer

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February 23, 2021March 1, 2021
Worth a Listen: Free Sonos Radio Programs with Dolly Parton, David Byrne, and More
By Miles Raymer / Stuff To Do / Stuff To Do, free stuff
If you love music and hate wires, there’s a good chance that you already know about Sonos’s unbelievably cool wifi speakers. Thankfully, you don’t need…
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January 25, 2021
Humble Bundle’s Latest Plug-In Collection is One Hell of a Deal
By Miles Raymer / Music, Stuff To Do / free stuff, home recording, Humble Bundle
Humble Bundle—which has been selling super-discounted software packages to raise money for charity for over a decade—is currently offering a serious set of pro-quality plug-ins…
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December 16, 2020December 18, 2020
Don’t Panic! Our 2020 Chill-Out Gift Guide is Here for You
By Miles Raymer / Riot Festmas / Riot Festmas, holiday, christmas
Our self-care gift guide is here to help you explore a ton of unique ways to de-stress.
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December 3, 2020December 20, 2020
Sex Toy Superlatives: A Guide to the Future of Jerking Off
By Miles Raymer / Stuff To Do / Stuff To Do, gift guide, sex
Sex was always complicated—now that there’s a pandemic going on, it’s trickier than ever. So it’s no wonder that a lot of people are choosing…
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October 30, 2020October 30, 2020
Premiere: Ethel Cain’s “The God” is the Perfect Dose of Midwest Psychedelic Horror
By Miles Raymer / Halloween, Premieres / new music, music video, halloween
The Midwest is a deeply haunted place. Indiana resident Ethel Cain is a recent transplant to the Midwest, but she seems intimately familiar with the…
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September 14, 2020
Remembering Toots Hibbert, a Founding Voice of Reggae
By Miles Raymer / Music / Playlists, Reggae, Toots and the Maytals
RIP Toots Hibbert, a founding voice of reggae and the unforgettably joyful frontman of Toots and the Maytals. Blast some Toots and the Maytals this…
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September 7, 2020September 9, 2020
‘The Lost Boys’ and the Definition of a Cool Vampire
By Miles Raymer / Editorial, Riot Fest At The Movies, TV+Film / TV+Film, editorial, Riot Fest At The Movies
‘The Lost Boys’ is a movie that’s completely obsessed with cool, while also being deeply suspicious of the very concept.
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August 3, 2020
Band Name Bureau and the 15-Year Effort to Catalog Terrible Band Names
By Miles Raymer / Features, Interviews
Since the early MySpace days, writer and former A.V. Club editor Kyle Ryan has been collecting terrible band names. He’s keeping his 15-year effort going…
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April 29, 2020
The Cheapskate Technophobe’s Guide to Digital Home Recording
By Miles Raymer / DIY, Editorial / Stuff To Do, DIY, recording
It’s bad enough that the coronavirus nuked an entire touring season, messing up the income of professional musicians who rely on touring to make money…
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April 20, 2020April 20, 2020
Riot Fest’s 4/20 Gift Guide for the Quarantined Stoner
By Miles Raymer / Holiday / holiday, weed, gift guide
Smoking weed is one of those things that we’re fine doing at home all the time, but now sort of resent that we don’t have…
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April 9, 2020April 9, 2020
Daryl Wilson from The Bollweevils Wants You to Stay Home
By Miles Raymer / Features, Interviews / Q&A, Playlists, Stay At Home
Bollweevils frontman Daryl Wilson is a doctor working on the front lines of Illinois’s coronavirus outbreak. Here's what he says you can do to make…
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January 23, 2020January 23, 2020
The Weirdest Shit We Saw at NAMM 2020
By Miles Raymer / Editorial / editorial, guitar, Gear
The music gear industry is in the middle of a period of wild experimentation, and NAMM was the center of it all last weekend.
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