Clockwise from top left: Kandle, Gleemer, Donna Missal, Charlie Peacock, Josie Dunne and JR JR. 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…

Roman Gokhman writes about his favorite interviews of the year: Cautious Clay, Rhett Miller, Suzannah Powell, Joseph, Aurora, Joy Williams, SHAED, K.Flay, Hozier, Ivory Layne, Yoke Lore, Lumineers, Just Loud, Josh Malerman, the Dandy Warhols and JR JR. As RIFF has continued to grow, my free time has continued…

Clockwise from top left: COMA, Sløtface, Taali, Chadwick Stokes, Brittany Howard and JR JR. Every week, there’s more new music waiting to be discovered. No one really has enough time to watch that indie channel on TV that just happens to be playing a lot of great new artists.…

Nancy and Daniel Zott (of JR JR) with their three children, Johnny (5, top), Isaiah (3, bottom left) and Theodore (1). Photo courtesy of the Zott family. More than four years had passed since Michigan indie rock band JR JR last released a record, but the absence of music…