Fletcher performs during Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2024. Mariana Garcia/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO —Outside Lands is about more than just the headliners, and this year is no exception. The lineup spans genres and ranges from young up-and-coming acts to pros.…

Great Good Fine Ok, courtesy Shervin Lainez. Smooth synth-pop by Great Good Fine Ok, a soulful stunner by Lola Young, an introspective slow-burning number by Seth Glier and Hayley Reardon, deep house grooves by Logic1000, a new rocker by Bay Area fave K.Flay and some quirky hip-hop by Paris…

K.Flay performs at Hard Rock Live in Las Vegas on April 28, 2023. Photos: Kara Robinson/The Gathering. LAS VEGAS — With a potential end to her music career dead ahead, K.Flay had a choice to make: Take it over the cliff or swerve hard and give it another go. The…

Clockwise from top left: Ida Maria, Claire George, Working Men’s Club, Matt Muse, Doss and Jax Anderson with K.Flay. “Sick of You” by Ida Maria is the punk rock song that perfectly captures the overwhelming feels and frustrations of the past year. Also, catch more songs by former Bay…

K.Flay performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Sept. 7, 2019. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. Last week, I went through my 2020 Spotify Wrapped playlist. It was made abundantly clear what everyone who reads this column, or in fact has ever spoken to me for more than three minutes, could…

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: Altin Gun, K.Flay, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Lightning Bolt, Big Business, Boy Harsher, Carly Rae Jepsen, Battles, Tyler, the Creator, and American Football. We’re nearing the end of our countdown of the top 50 albums of 2019! A lot of these records would have…

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…

K.Flay, “Solutions.” Kristine Flaherty, better known by her stage name, K.Flay, returns with her third LP, Solutions. The album presents a very personal and introspective take on the rapper turned alt-pop singer-songwriter. The album is less of a stylistic transformation, instead showing a natural progression of Flaherty’s sound. The hip-hop flow is…