Rachel Goodman’s favorite alt-rock and alt-pop songs of the year for 2019 include The Dandy Warhols, The Knocks, Nilüfer Yanya, Strand of Oaks, Sharon Van Etten, Better Oblivion Community Center, Kirin J. Callinan, Mikal Cronin, The New Pornographers, Jenny Lewis and Cigarettes After Sex. Rounding up my favorite songs…

Photos: Chloe Catajan NAPA — Despite having penned and produced Top 40 singles for the likes of Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Christina Perri, Gavin Degraw and others; despite a promising career as the frontman of Boys Like Girls; and even despite the surging popularity of his new band, The Night…

Welcome, to my five-part series counting down what I believe to be the 50 best albums of 2017. I listened to an insane amount of new music during my first year as a staff writer with RIFF, nearly 150 album releases, in fact. With that in mind, when narrowing down all…