blink-182, “ONE MORE TIME… PART 2.” Following up their career-resurrecting hit album One More Time, blink-182 quickly expanded the offering with One More Time… Part 2. Online commenters poked fun at the title—“Missed opportunity to call it ‘One More Time With Feeling’” and “Damn, how many more times?” were…

Amy Shark, courtesy. Sundays became about separating herself from sadness for Australian singer-songwriter Amy Shark. As she worked on her latest record, Sunday Sadness, that final day of the weekend was one for reflection and writing. Sunday Sadness Amy Shark RCA, Aug. 16 Get the album on Amazon Music.…

Amy Shark, “Sunday Sadness.” Australian singer-songwriter Amy Shark built her musical foundation on hyper-personal songs, traversing her own internal monologue and tendency to overthink. Those deepest, most intimate lyrical moments brought a universal relatability of shared experiences, anxieties and desires. On her third album, Sunday Sadness, she dives back…

Blink-182 performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on July 9, 2024. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — It may as well have been the introduction to a UFC bout as the house lights at Chase Center dimmed and a dramatic cinematic soundtrack played. Down a dark hallway shown on…

RIFF’s best albums of 2023 include the Rolling Stones, Blink-182, Cleo Sol, Miley Cyrus, Allison Russell, Victoria Monét, Kali Uchis, Fall Out Boy, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Manchester Orchestra, Janelle Monáe, JPEGMafia with Danny Brown, Blondshell, Doja Cat, Andre 3000, Mick Jenkins, Sir Chloe, Ryuchi Sakamoto, James…

Blink-182, “One More Time.” The prospect of a new Blink-182 album with the band’s best-known lineup seemed like a pipe dream at one point. The band’s last record with singer-guitarist Tom DeLonge was 2011’s Neighborhoods, while Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba hopped aboard for the last two albums. He…

Blink-182 performs at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 9, 2019. They never really left… Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. My social media which, I admit is full of old people, lit up the other day with some big, big, BIG music reunion news,…

Avril Lavigne, “Love Sux.” In some ways, the seventh album by Avril Lavigne is a return to the Canadian pop-rocker’s roots. In others, it’s finally reaching the territory she’s strived for from the start. Lavigne has always existed adjacent to the pop-punk moniker, but often, that classification was based on…

Photographer Joaquin Cabello’s favorite concerts of the year included Babymetal, American Football, Marina Diamandis, Anderson .Paak, Laura Jane Grace, Explosions in the Sky, Carly Rae Jepsen, Alexisonfire, the Jonas Brothers, Mineral, Incubus, Gouge Away, The 1975, Blink-182 and Billie Eilish. Taking pictures of artists might be one of my…

Tool performs at the Aftershock Festival on Oct. 13, 2019. Courtesy of Aftershock. SACRAMENTO — Northern California’s annual hard rock festival, Aftershock, continued its upward trajectory as one of the premiere national events for heavy music. What began back in 2012 as a one-day and one-stage event has ballooned…