Alice Merton performs at August Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2018. Photos: Steve Carlson. SAN FRANCISCO — As danceable as the songs of Alice Merton are, starting with her first smash hit, “No Roots,” to subsequent tunes like “Holes,” “Lash Out” and “Hit the Ground Running,” the…

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…