Lola Kirke photographed outside The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on March 24, 2022. Nathan McKinley/STAFF. Lola Kirke doesn’t feel British (she was born in London) or completely American (her family moved to New York when she and her siblings were still kids). Although she got her artistic career…

The journey to Old Flowers began on New Year’s Day 2019 for Phoenix-born singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews. While there were signs leading up to it, that particular day marked the end of a nine-year relationship for Andrews. The months of soul-searching that followed found her moving across the country (which…

Brandi Carlile performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 7, 2016. Photo: Roman Gokhman/Staff. Fans not able to get a ticket to see Brandi Carlile at one of her two shows at the Hearst Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Sept. 21 and 22 can still see the…

Courtney Marie Andrews, courtesy. When Courtney Marie Andrews decided to leave Phoenix, at 16, to pursue a career as a travelling musician, many of her early tours took her up the West Coast, through San Francisco. The soulful folk singer had not seen much of the world yet; hadn’t…

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…