RIFF’s best albums of 2023 include Olivia Rodrigo, Paramore, Lana Del Rey, Mitski, boygenius, Slowdive, Hozier, Yves Tumor, Foo Fighters, Corinne Bailey Rae, Kylie Minogue, The Clientele, Avenged Sevenfold, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, Caroline Polachek, Blur, Feist, Sonic Youth and Billy Woods with Kenny Segal. Our album reviews are…

Lana Del Rey performs during Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2023. Photo: Alive Coverage. SAN FRANCISCO — Cloaked in a thick mist and shrouded in inky darkness, Lana Del Rey never seemed brighter. The singer-songwriter, making her second appearance at…

Lana Del Rey, “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.” Lana Del Rey’s ninth studio album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, is an exercise in opposites. It’s intimate but expansive, exploratory but familiar, lush but spacious. Did You Know That There’s a…

Lana del Rey performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 7, 2016. Adrian Jusue/STAFF, I used to do Worst of the Year in Music columns as a jokey little counterpoint to all the best of the year lists floating around. Then 2020 happened and I did the worst…

The best albums of 2021 include BROCKHAMPTON, Taylor Swift, Isaiah Rashad, Injury Reserve, Lana Del Rey, Genesis Owusu, Los Lobos, Jungle, The Mountain Goats and DMX. Best of 2021 Thanks for sticking with us this far, as we’ve now reached part five of our ambitious ranking of the year’s…

Blue Banisters has arrived. After one of the most confusing and ill-planned album releases in recent memory, the eighth studio effort from Lana Del Rey is finally out. Originally titled and announced as Rock Candy Sweet just a day after the release of her previous album, Chemtrails Over the Country Club,…

Lana Del Rey, “Chemtrails Over the Country Club.” Lana Del Rey‘s sixth studio album, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, was rumored to be a country album. After nearly 15 years, it came as a shocker to fans, many who’ve fawned over her dreamy, sleepy Americana since her early days…

Kyle J. Kohner checks in with his own list of the best albums of the year. The second part includes Thom Yorke, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Sharon Van Etten, Lana Del Rey, A.A. Bondy, Injury Reserve, TEEN, Nilüfer Yanya, Field Medic, Kate Tempest, FONTAINES D.C., TR/ST, Boy…

Lana Del Rey performs at the Hearst Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Oct. 6, 2019. Photos: Roman Gokhman. BERKELEY — In what is likely to be known as the show of the 2019 season at the Hearst Greek Theatre, in terms of attendance, Lana Del Rey delivered even more…

Photo: Che Holts SAN FRANCISCO — Day three brought sunshine and massive crowds to close the ninth Outside Lands Music Festival on a memorable note. Tens of thousands packed the Polo Field at midday for a glimpse at Chance the Rapper and Third Eye Blind on the Lands End…