Cyn, courtesy. Cynthia Nabozny’s music career was gaining momentum at the end of the last decade. The Michigan-born, L.A.-based artist, who goes by Cyn, signed with Katy Perry’s label imprint, released an EP, toured with Perry and Børns and had her songs featured in several films. Valley Girl (deluxe)…

Clockwise from top left: Beabadoobee, CYN, Pallbearer, Sawyer, The Midnight Hour and French 79. It’s been quite a year here in the Tuesday Tracks camp. RIFF’s mission to provide you with songs you might otherwise leave behind has lead us to many diamonds in the rough. Our final mission,…

Clockwise from top left: Knocked Loose, CYN, Good Kid, Ex Hex, Yuna, Amber Mark. 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…

CYN photographed at the Independent in San Francisco on April 17, 2018. Photos: Lauren Low. After opening for Katy Perry in Mexico, Cynthia Nabozny, decided she could do even more to improve her songwriting chops and spike the trajectory of her already rising young career. The Michigan-born, L.A.-based pop…

Sigrid performs at the Independent in San Francisco on April 17, 2018. Lauren Low/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Think of Sigrid as a dark horse pop star. The 21-year-old Norwegian singer-songwriter, who headlined a sold-out show at the Independent Monday, recently was named as the winner of the BBC Sound of…

CYN, courtesy. The last two years could have seemed like a blur to Cynthia Nabozny, who went from writing songs in a notebook to performing in front of pop star Katy Perry in her home, but for the Michigander, time seemed to drag as the itch to release her…

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…

Photos: Alessio Neri SAN FRANCISCO —  Garrett Clark Borns, better known as Børns, performed to a sold-out Popscene crowd at Rickshaw Stop, his second appearance inside the tiny club. The difference now is that Børns sells out considerably larger venues. His 60-minute set was long enough to entertain and interact with the crowd. Fans asked questions,…