Clockwise from top left: RØYLS, Chloe Flower, Girl Wilde, Killstation, Delac and Alex Wnston. 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…

Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms such as 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 pooled our resources to find some of the best…

Phoenix photographed at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, on June 10, 2017. Photo: Alessio Neri RIFF doubled in readership in 2017, and as editor-in-chief, so did my workload. As one of five people running our humble little publication on a day-to-day basis, while planning as far out as…

Courtesy: Catie Laffoon Michigan singer-songwriter Alex Winston and MS MR’s Max Hershenow are so over big labels. Together as new duo Post Precious, Winston and Hershenow are going back to basics when it comes to writing, recording and releasing their own songs. For Hershenow, whose band MS MR is…

Alex Winston is a singer who I’m surprised hasn’t already made a bigger splash in the indie music world. Sure, she made some waves with “Sister Wife” and “Velvet Elvis,” but once those died down, I haven’t heard any chatter about how her next album is progressing, and I’ve…