Even though San Francisco bluesy soul band Hibbity Dibbity formed in 2013, the same year as the inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley music festival, tomorrow will mark the first time singer-guitarists Chris Braun and Tom Relling, bassist Parker Simon and drummer Jack Gehegan attend the annual musical gathering together. BottleRock…

In many ways, Anna Coogan is as surprised by her latest release, The Lonely Cry of Space and Time, as anyone else. The album tackles deeply personal and hotly political topics in what one might describe as a rock opera. Anna Coogan  5 p.m., Sunday, June 25 Acoustic Den Cafe…

Courtesy: BottleRock Napa Valley How do you follow a line-up headlined by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Wonder and Florence and the Machine? If you’re the producers of BottleRock Napa Valley, you fill the void with Tom Petty and Foo Fighters, top it off with big names like Maroon 5, Macklemore, Modest Mouse and The…

The South Bay’s the Coffis Brothers and the Mountain Men are back with their first new track since the release of The Wrong Side of the Road in 2014. “You Ain’t Got The Heart” is a Southern rock jam in the vein of Full Moon Fever-era Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.…

AJ Lee, courtesy Tammi Coombs. A new wave bluegrass musicians is making the genre popular again in California, and it’s not your grandfather’s style of high-pitched, male-centered music. Exhibit A is the presence of the California Bluegrass Association at San Francisco’s Pride Parade next month; a first for any…

Photos: Tim Durkan SANTA CLARA — On its own, U2 performing its 1987 breakout album, The Joshua Tree, is significant for two reasons. Foremost, it means the Irish band has accepted its position as a legacy band with a storied songbook that the casual fan prefers over new material. But…

Back in early 2015, long-time Bay Area singer-songwriter Kacey Johansing suffered an emotional loss: a falling out with her two main collaborators. In the aftermath, she says she felt as though her musical community was gone. The Hiding Kacey Johansing June 2 “It was a pretty rough time,” says Johansing, formerly…

Every week there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does! We’ve pooled our resources to find some of…

Courtesy: U2 By Joseph Ahorro The themes of U2’s last album, 2014’s Songs of Innocence, and the subsequent Innocence + Experience Tour primarily highlighted the Irish band’s upbringing as youth on the north side of Dublin, and the artistic, social and political influences that ultimately shaped their music. U2,…

Photos: Gary Chancer SAN FRANCISCO — The cliche description of Aimee Mann‘s songs is that they are emotionally depressing, but her music is so much more than that. Listen closely and you’ll see she is literally a genius in her ability to write and sing about human emotions. Friday at the…