Jackie Venson 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…

Clean Bandit, courtesy. I didn’t know all too much about Clean Bandit prior to February, when I was offered an interview with the English electronic-classical band, alongside another unknown, Jess Glynne, just prior to the Grammy Awards. I wasn’t in a position to meet up with them in Los…

Duran Duran performs at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Oct. 2, 2015. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Overall, a fun, if slightly disjointed show. Duran Duran didn’t play much longer than Chic, and Clean Bandit performed about for 35 minutes, so it wasn’t always easy to remember the headliner. Simon Le…

Clean Bandit, courtesy. Electronic music fans have likely had English quartet Clean Bandit on their radar for some time. Everyone else followed suit last year, when “Rather Be,” a collaboration with Jess Glynne, reached No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and won the Grammy Award for Best…