Clockwise from top left: Gillian, Charlie Burg, Dream Wife, Miquela and Teyana Taylor, Low Cut Connie, andCautious Clay with Remi Wolf and Sophie Meiers. Low Cut Connie, “Private Lives” — Low Cut Connie’s Adam Weiner explores people at their most authentic—namely, who they are in private. The single has an infectious hook that’s…

Roman Gokhman writes about his favorite interviews of the year: Cautious Clay, Rhett Miller, Suzannah Powell, Joseph, Aurora, Joy Williams, SHAED, K.Flay, Hozier, Ivory Layne, Yoke Lore, Lumineers, Just Loud, Josh Malerman, the Dandy Warhols and JR JR. As RIFF has continued to grow, my free time has continued…

PORTLAND, ORE. — While the impending bomb cyclone was the popular topic of conversation Tuesday in western Oregon, New York musician Cautious Clay tempered worries, at least temporarily, with a simmering set of electronic soul, rock and blues-inflected R&B. The singer-producer-flautist-saxophonist-guitarist, who headlined the Fillmore in San Francisco the…

Cautious Clay, Courtesy photo. Two years ago, in May 2017, Josh Karpeh was a property leasing agent and a marketer. The George Washington University graduate had already gotten fired from one real estate job and wasn’t happy in his current one. Good thing, then, that he had a budding…

Charly Bliss performs at a Rolling Stone during the 2019 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Native Hostel on March 15, 2019 in Austin, Texas. Photo: Steve Rogers Photography/Getty Images. AUSTIN, TEX. — A few days ago, we shared our picks for the best finds at first half of SXSW.…