Kyle J. Kohner checks in with his own list of the best albums of the year. The second part includes Thom Yorke, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Sharon Van Etten, Lana Del Rey, A.A. Bondy, Injury Reserve, TEEN, Nilüfer Yanya, Field Medic, Kate Tempest, FONTAINES D.C., TR/ST, Boy…

Kamaal Williams will perform Friday at the Starline Social Club for the annual Noise Pop Music Festival. Hardly anyone goes to music festivals without at least one must-watch band. Still, it’s almost impossible to properly familiarize yourself with giant lineups like Noise Pop. Everything from maddening noise rock to sexy trap…

Photos: Chloe Catajan SAN FRANCISCO — “One, two, three, will you list it off to me?/ How you’re sorry you feel weird in a jubilation dream,” whispered Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad of Girlpool. Part best friends and part folk-punk band, the two led into their Noise Pop set…

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…

SAN FRANCISCO — File The Rural Alberta Advantage under the tag of good bands that are even better on-stage. Guitarist-vocalist Nils Edenloff, drummer Paul Banwatt and newer member Robin Hatch (keys) headlined a Noise Pop show at the Bottom of the Hill Wednesday and the indie folk (rock? tribal?—it’s hard…