RIFF Magazine

Roman Gokhman and Nick DeCicco founded RIFF in 2016. The two longtime journalists have known each other since 2004, when both worked at a daily newspaper in Californias Gold Country. Gokhman was an ambulance chaser and DeCicco initially a copy editor before also becoming a writer. Both loved music and eventually began to write about it after moving to the Bay Area. Roman wrote for The Bay Area News Group the Oakland Tribune, San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times for five years before moving on to a few Bay Area music blogs and national publications. Nick has worked for the Daily Republic in Fairfield, California. They finally decided that others were not doing a good job of picking up the slack left behind by crumbling newspapers. After bouncing ideas back and forth for a couple of years, they gave birth to RIFF. Our entire editorial team is composed of journalists. You may recognize their names from newspapers, television or radio. Our contributors are musicians and music i...