Clockwise from top left: Scarypoolparty, Dizzy Fae, Seratones, Angelica Garcia, Kelsey Waldon and Wild Rivers. 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…

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…

Angelica Garcia photographed before a show at the Independent on Jan. 28, 2017. Photos: Amanda Limond Angelica Garcia was a Latina teen growing up in L.A. before her parents uprooted the family and moved to coastal Virginia. In 2011, her stepdad accepted an assignment as an Episcopalian minister, and the…

Lydia Loveless performs at the Independent in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2017. Photos: Roman Gokhman SAN FRANCISCO — Lydia Loveless started creating her style of alt-country just at the turn of the decade, but has since grown a following of both old country-traditionalists and the new Americana generation. Loveless headlined a show…