L to R. Row 1: Finneas, Carly Rae Jepsen, BANNERS, August Burns Red, Lil Nas X. Row 2: Lights, Black Pumas, Chloe Flower, Ben Caplan, Liam Payne. Row 3: Dallas Smith, ROZEI, Dashboard Confessional, Dee Snider with Lzzy Hale, Josie Dunne. No one could have expected that 2020’s Holiday…

Clockwise from top left: Maddie Jay, BANNERS, Remo Drive, Geographer, Video Age and Maceo Parker. 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…

Wallet Chain So much music, so little time. At least that’s what I hear from friends all too often. Even with so many options to hear so much new music, how do you find it all? You could scour SXSW lineups, or CMJ New Music Monthly as I once did, but…

Are you getting excited about the return of American Idol to TV even if you’ve never watched a single full episode before? The music of U.K. singer-songwriter Banners could be the reason why. Catch Banners on tour this spring, with a West Coast swing in the works for April or…

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…