Mick Jagger performs during the Rolling Stones’ Forty Licks Tour at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 2003. Photo by KMazur/WireImage. Photo by James Keivom/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images. In 2018 I completed a quest to list my top five (or so) songs for every…

Post Malone performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 7, 2022. Onome Uyovbievbo and Matt Pang/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — At Outside Lands past, Sunday’s headlining slot has often been reserved for a legacy act. Producers went the other way this year with Post Malone. From the moment the…

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…