Fleet Foxes perform at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on July 10, 2022. Chloe Catalan/STAFF. BERKELEY – One could say Seattle indie rockers Fleet Foxes are easy like a Sunday evening. The twilight of the picturesque Greek Theatre in Berkeley provided the ideal backdrop for Robin Pecknold and company…

Right after New York City shut down in the winter of 2020, Robin Pecknold played a livestream concert at the historic St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn that he called A Very Lonely Solstice. Now he’s releasing it as a Fleet Foxes live album, just in…

The best albums of 2020 include Washed Out, the Mountain Goats, Ethan Gruska, Tom Petty, Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown, Logic, The Strokes, Moses Sumney, Fleet Foxes, Willie Nelson, Yves Tumor, Nicolas Jaar, Ed O’Brien, Charli XCX and Blackpink. After nearly a decade of living through 2020, we’re finally…

Many of us know a “record nerd,” a subset of aficionados with encyclopedic knowledge of and acerbic opinions about some musical niche or other. Record nerds wax poetically on the merits of the recording console at Sunset Sound, or the natural reverb in Abbey Road’s studio two. But many…

Photos: Chloe Catajan BERKELEY — As The Westerlies played its dreary tune “A Nearer Sun,” Fleet Foxes took the Greek Theatre stage Friday. The symphonic tones eventually turned into a single blare, cueing the Seattle folk-rockers to take over from there. Seamlessly, Fleet Foxes broke into full sound for …

Kyle Kohner’s five-part series ranking the 50 best albums of 2017 continues with numbers 30 to 21. Missed everything up until now? Start at the beginning. 30. Arca – Arca To say that Arca is one of the least accessible artists around is an understatement. At the same time, the Venezuelan producer is a musical…

Photos: Paige K. Parsons Photographer Paige K. Parsons is one of the most recognizable faces at concert venues throughout the Bay Area. Other photographers frequently remark about her skill of capturing the best possible shot while staying out of everyone else’s line of sight. And RIFF is lucky to…

Photos: Alessio Neri A last-minute postponement by legendary hip-hop crew A Tribe Called Quest didn’t spoil the mood for tens of thousands Gorillaz fans Friday, the first day of the Outside Lands Music Festival. And Gorillaz, the electronic, animated project of Blur’s Damon Albarn did not disappoint with a…

  Crack-Up, the first Fleet Foxes album in six years, begins with a disjointed, discordant intro before the familiar harmonies kick in. It’s welcoming to hear that sound again, but the Seattle quintet doesn’t stay in that zone for long. Many of the songs on Crack-Up end up veering…