Louis Cole, courtesy. This week’s edition features orchestral funk from Louis Cole with the Metropole Orkest, contemplative rap from Darren Waller, imaginative rock by Etta Marcus, Ok Cowgirl, The Heavy Heavy and Liily, a little folk from Mo Kenney and soul by Jake Isaac. Louis Cole featuring Metropole Orkest and…

Few musicians today can compete with the resume of Stephen Bruner, better known as Thundercat. Bruner developed his virtuosic stringmanship alongside some of L.A.’s brightest talents. He was instrumental to Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly (widely regarded as Lamar’s best) and collaborated on albums by Erykah Badu and jazz bandleader…

Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms such as Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some of the best…