Bleachers may only be on its second album but Gone Now feels like something you have known for a lifetime. Gone Now Bleachers June 2 Jack Antonoff started Bleachers as a side project to his other band, Fun., back in 2013. Little did he know that his side project…

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…

Charli XCX performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on July 23, 2015. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Perhaps the point Charlotte Aitchison was trying to make at the Fox Theater in Oakland Thursday evening was one of irony–-combining grrl power anthems with faux pole dancing and flashing of the lower half…

Bleachers perform at the Independent in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2014. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Bleachers‘ performance was solid throughout, but it was at the midpoint, somewhere near a cover of Tom Petty’s “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” that Jack Antonoff, who spoke about nursing a cold and having…

Jack Antonoff of Bleachers, courtesy. Jack Antonoff has written songs that have dealt with the death of his sister, and how her death impacted his life, for most of his musical career. The 30-year-old fun. guitarist was 18 when his sister Sarah died of cancer. “I wrote about it…

Foster the People perform during Live 105’s BFD festival at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California on June 4, 2014. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Check out images from the 2014 Live 105 BFD festival at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. The highlights included Foster the People and Bleachers. There are…