K.Flay performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Sept. 7 2019. Photos: Chloe Catajan OAKLAND — K.Flay, made her triumphant Bay Area return Saturday night at the Fox Theater in her biggest headlining stage production to date in the first week of her Solutions Tour. The artist, who’s…

K. Flay. Photo courtesy of Koury Angelo. Even before Kristine Flaherty decided to write a hip-hop song to prove a point about how watered down the genre had become while pursuing a double major at Stanford—kicking off a sequence of events that would cause major changes in her life—she…

Santana performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 26, 2019. Photos: Shawn Robbins. NAPA — Guitar legend Carlos Santana, closing out BottleRock Napa Valley 2019 on Sunday along with Mumford and Sons, saw it as his mission to fight fear with love. On several occasions,…

Dexter Tortoriello of Houses photographed before a show at the Fox Theater in Oakland on March 5, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. OAKLAND — After five years in Los Angeles, Dexter Tortoriello was ready to get out. The songwriter, musician and producer, best known for the ambient electronica project Houses, had realized…

Jungle performs at The Fox Theater in Oakland on March 5, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. OAKLAND — Jungle pulled out its grooviest rhythms and brought the heat of a party to the Fox Theater on a chilly Tuesday. The London modern soul collective, carried by Josh “J” Lloyd-Watson and Tom “T”…

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…