The best albums of 2021 include Marina Diamandis, The Marias, The Fratellis, Maximo Park, Morgan Wallen, Wardruna, Prince, At the Gates, Hayley Williams, Andrew W.K., Miranda Lambert, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Liz Phair. RIFF’s writers reviewed hundreds of albums in 2021, and although the year isn’t over,…

Liz Phair recently told Variety that you can go home again, only things progress and people change. That was a great way to describe her first new album in more than a decade, the fresh-but-comfortable Soberish. Soberish Liz Phair Chrysalis, June 4 8/10 It’s appropriately clever, honest, a bit…

The Treefort Music Festival main stage entrance in Boise, Idaho on March 22, 2019. BOISE, IDAHO — Rain-slicked streets reflected streetlights outside the Linen Building. Echoing through the dark streets just outside downtown, the in-your-face flow of Toronto rapper Haviah Mighty was heard from inside the 100-year-old white brick building…

Liz Phair performs at The Fillmore in San Francisco on Sept. 20, 2018. Photos: Shawn Robbins. SAN FRANCISCO — Less than three months after packing another San Francisco venue, ’90s alt-rock icon Liz Phair darn-near sold out the Fillmore Thursday for her quick return for the Amps on the…