Charlie Hall, “Invisible Ink.” Charlie Hall has spent most of his music career making other people sound good. Hall is a multi-instrumentalist, but he’s best-known as the drummer for Grammy-winning band The War On Drugs. He has a reputation among other musicians as a generous support player. Now, Hall…

J Mascis performs at Slim’s in San Francisco on Nov. 14, 2018. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — A thick blanket of smoke welcomed J Mascis to the Bay Area when he played Slim’s on Wednesday night, and that seemed appropriate. Mascis, former frontman and guitarist for the famously…

Every week there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms like 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’ve pooled our resources to find some of…