Clockwise from top left: Alice Merton, Jenny Hval, Jpegmafia, Jessica Pratt, Kingfish, Kim Petras, Cate Le Bon, Swans, Ty Segall and Bad Wolves. We’ve reached the halfway point of RIFF’s top 50 albums list! It only get harder from here, but we can certainly guarantee a wealth of quality…

Clockwise from top left: Kim Petras, NIKI, Emotional Oranges, Winona Oak, Lily Kershaw, Ciel. 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…

Troye Sivan performs at The Masonic in San Francisco on Nov. 1, 2018. Photos: Chloe Catajan. SAN FRANCISCO — It’s been a big year for Troye Sivan. In August the Australian pop artist released his second album, Bloom, which landed at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart, amassed…