Justice performs at Portola Festival in San Francisco on Sept. 29, 2024. Matt Pang and Gavin Legaspi/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Portola Festival offered up its annual display of freedom of love and expression and celebration of all things electronic at Pier 80 over the weekend. Music lovers crowded around…

Mr. Gnome, courtesy. Post-grunge from Mr. Gnome, electronic disco from LP Giobbi and Mascolo, garage rock by Peel Dream Magazine and Genevieve Stokes, softer alt-rock by Skylar Gudasz and folky storytelling by Angie McMahon. Mr. Gnome, “Fader” — Mr. Gnome uses shredding guitar riffs and a heavy beat on…

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…