The best albums of 2022 include Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Banks, Sondre Lerche, Ghost, The Black Keys, Alice Merton, Omar Apollo, Coheed and Cambria, Pusha T, Tears for Fears, Nova Twins and Florence and the Machine. After poring over hundreds of our own album reviews and hundreds more albums…

Twenty One Pilots perform at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 28, 2022. Steve Carlson/STAFF. NAPA — Saturday night’s BottleRock Napa offerings presented, perhaps, as challenging a headliner clash as the fest has ever seen. On one stage was one of the most exciting live bands…

Banks, ‘Serpentina,’ Some 400 years ago, English theologian Thomas Fuller wrote “it’s always darkest before the dawn.” Despite its relative simplicity, it remains true, giving us all the more reason to apply the phrase to art and our lives. It’s the perfect description of Jillian Rose Banks’ journey to make Serpentina.…

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…