Sara Bareilles performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2019. Photos: Adam Pardee. SAN FRANCISCO — Sara Bareilles has long held a tight-knit relationship to San Francisco and Northern California. The Eureka-born singer-songwriter made the Bay Area a natural home as her career developed. Bareilles’ career…

Emily King 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…