Clockwise from top left: Aurora, Billy Strings, Honeyblood, Bon Iver, Sum-41, Tool, Opeth, 100 gecs, Subhumans and Lizzo. Welcome back to RIFF’s year-end album roundup! If you’re joining us just now, start with part one. Our album review staff is pretty musically diverse, which might explain why Opeth, Bon…

Clockwise from top left: Clipping., Nile, Stephen Malkmus, Taylor Swift, The Futureheads, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, Coldplay, The Flaming Lips featuring the Colorado Symphony, Lights and The New Pornographers. We’ve reached the end of 2019, meaning the time has come to look back over all the great music the…

Florist performs at The Fillmore in San Francisco during Noise Pop on Feb. 22, 2018. Joaquin Cabello/Staff. More than 20 new acts have been added to the lineup of the 2020 Noise Pop Music Festival, let by a group of jazz-influenced artists who will perform at SFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson…

Bikini Kill performs at a recent concert at The Hollywood Palladium. Courtesy: Debi Del Grande. Recently reunited seminal riot grrrl band Bikini Kill have announced a 2020 tour, which includes an appearance at Oakland’s Burger Boogaloo festival on July 11. It’s the band’s first tour since 1997. Bikini Kill’s…

BottleRock Napa Valley 2019. Courtesy Christopher Helkey. Looking for a holiday gift for a music lover, or for yourself? A small amount of BottleRock Napa Valley 2020 tickets will be sold starting on Dec. 11. Now in its eighth year, BottleRock Napa Valley pairs Napa Valley’s wine, food and…

Freestyle Love Supreme, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s original Broadway hit, will make its San Francisco debut at SF Sketchfest in January. A Broadway production by Lin-Manuel Miranda and friends, tributes to Tony Shalhoub and The Monkees, podcast tapings galore and plenty of sketch and stand-up comics lead the lineup of the 19th annual…

Rob Dietrich of Blackened American Whiskey. The fusion of music and the development of craft beverage is not a foreign concept at its core. Vintners have played music to grapes on the vine or in the barrel to see how they react, and distillers have used music in the…

L.A. rock duo Best Coast and more than a dozen other acts have been added to the lineup of the 2020 Noise Pop Festival, which will take place between Feb. 24 and March 1. Other additions to the 26th annual festival include hip-hop trio Injury Reserve, Australian electronic act Bag Raiders, Mirah and singer-songwriter Josh…

pic.twitter.com/yHIPhDDgsX — RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE (@RATM) November 1, 2019 A reunited Rage Against The Machine announced Friday that the band would be playing several shows next spring, including two shows in Indio—presumably as the headliners at Coachella—on April 10 and 17, the two weekends the festival will take…

Max Becker of SWMRS photographed at BottleRock Napa Valley in Napa on May 28, 2017. Several members of East Bay rock band SWMRS and its crew were injured—several of them seriously—after the van they were in slid on black ice with the band en-route from the Bay Area to…