About Riveting Riffs Magazine

Riveting Riffs Magazine has four primary foci; music, film, theater and fashion. The majority of our writers, editors and photographers are professionally employed and / or have been formally educated in the art form about which they write. Some of our writers are also professionally published journalists and authors and have been formally educated as journalists.

For the most part our focus is on North American, Australian and European artists, which reflects our reader demographics, although we remain open to discovering artists from other countries. We are not a news oriented or events oriented publication, with the exceptions that we review concerts, musicals and plays. We do not post concert notices in our magazine so please do not send them to us, unless you are inquiring as to our availability to review a concert, play or musical and you are prepared to provide one of our writers or photographers with with a complimentary press pass plus one complimentary pass for a guest. For safety reasons, it is against our magazine's policy to send a writer out alone at night to do a review. If you cannot provide two complimenatary passes, we understand, but we will not send a writer or photographer out to review your event. You can write to us at: jmontague (at) rivetingriffs dot com (obviously you are substituting the @ sign and a period. We are just trying to minimize spam.

Riveting Riffs Magazine is dedicated to the memory of our publisher's son, Kent David Montague, who passed away suddenly, 17 days after his 18th birthday from a lethal arrythmia, which doctors and the Chief Medical Examiner (Coroner) believe was caused by an electrical problem within the cellular structure of his heart.. If you live in Canada you can learn more about this condition, which claims 50% of its victims on the first symptom, by contacting SADS at www.sads.ca  In the United Sates you can contact www.sads.org and in the U.K www.sads.org.uk  I could have chosen to remain silent about the dedication of this magazine to the memory of my son, but I decided to make it publically known in the hope that it might prevent further loss of life, better education for all people, and the deployment of defribillators in public places and in work environments, because CPR cannot restore a heartbeat to someone who has due to a sudden arrythmia. Employers and owners of public facilities who do not invest in defribillators have sent a loud message to you, that being your life is not worth much. 

Many people have contributed to the success of this magazine over the years and often as the publisher I am the individual who is most visible, but in truth, I just had a dream and the many writers, photographers and editors who have been published in Riveting Riffs Magazine and the publicists, artist managers, tour managers, artists, music labels, filmmakers, producers, authors, directors, fashion designers and others who have made album reviews, concert reviews, theatrical reviews and interviews possible are the real people behind the success of Riveting Riffs Magazine. They do not have to give us those opportunities, yet they have decided to trust us, because we do not publish gossip or supposed news. We only publish interviews and reviews. We respect their time and their art and in return they have become our friends.

Finally, I would like to say a special thank you to three of my dearest friends, who over the years have both been with me personally and encouraged me on this journey, always believing that someday, our magazine would be well respected and now I can say with confidence that we are. Thank you to Monica Anderson, who is probably the closest I have had to a sister. Thank you to Ted Hubble who was my son Kent's best friend and has now become of one of my closest friends and someone I trust and respect deeply and thank you to Gay Smith, who was the one who originally sparked the dream and someone who has been a source of encouragement for me.

Thank you to you our readers, because without you there would be no reason to publish the interviews, to write the reviews or to take the photos that grace our magazine.

All written material, all photographs and all designs are protected by copyright © and patents by the writers, photographers, editors, designers, musicians, songwriters musicians and filmmakers who contribute to Riveting Riffs Magazine or have by consent allowed their work to be exhibited in Riveting Riffs Magazine, and / or Riveting Riffs Magazine and Joe Montague. Use of any material that appears in Riveting Riffs Magazine, without the written permission of the publisher and where applicable other rights holders, is strictly prohibited and is subject to legal action. This includes the reprinting, in whole or in part on the internet, by photocoping, reposting on blogs or other websites or magazines or newspapers that appear in print or quoting more than 200 words of any one composition, on terrestrial radio, internet radio, satellite radio, webcasts or television.