Photos: Alessio Neri SAN FRANCISCO — Los Angeles electropop duo FRENSHIP returned to the Bay Area for its first performance since Outside Lands on Wednesday. Headlining a special night of Popscene at Rickshaw Stop, James Sunderland and Brett Hite appeared grateful to draw a crowd. “I see a lot of familiar faces…

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…