Clockwise from top left: Catholic Action, The Ocean Blue, Yoke Lore and Jax Anderson, Lauren Ruth Ward, Kasador and Ruthie Collins. 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…

LP performs songs from “Heart to Mouth” at the Fox Theater in Oakland on March 10, 2019. Photos: Karen Goldman. OAKLAND — Singer-songwriter LP wowed a packed Fox Theater Sunday with little more than the power and range of her voice. The show, a make-up of an appearance postponed…

LP. Courtesy photo. After concluding their tour for 2016 album Lost On You, singer-songwriter LP was almost immediately pulled into a songwriting session. They’d just spent five full months on the road and had been living out of suitcases for a year-and-a-half, thanks to the worldwide success of the album’s title…

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of music on the internet. Don’t get me wrong, I love how platforms like YouTube, Bandcamp and Soundcloud have opened the floodgates of independent artists. But navigating the flood is easier said than done. That’s where RIFF steps in. We do…

LP photographed at Outside Lands Music Festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2018. Photo: Chloe Catajan. SAN FRANCISCO — It took LP only six record label deals to find to find a label that believed in their musical vision wholeheartedly. They had their breakout…

Courtesy: Damian Borja Cutting other people’s hair uses a different part of the brain than cutting one’s own. So says indie rocker Lauren Ruth Ward, for whom cutting hair is a passion equal to making music. Ward’s first customer was herself, and over more than a decade, she learned…

Night Talks, courtesy. Soraya Sebghati wouldn’t really murder bandmates by slicing their throats with a straight blade, asphyxiating them with a belt or stabbing them to death with a butcher knife. She just likes to play the role of femme fatale. Night Talks 8 p.m., Friday Secret location in…