Since the ’80s, Canadian artist Celine Dion has sold more than 250 million albums worldwide, making her the best-selling female artist of all time. The five-time Grammy winner (and 20-time Juno Award winner) is still best known, however, for the melodramatic “Titanic” ballad “My Heart Will Go On.” But as…

Yoke Lore photographed at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 24, 2019. Photos: Norm deVeyra. One-time Walk the Moon drummer Adrian Galvin, who now performs and writes music as Yoke Lore, once spent a year living as Buddhist in a monastery in India. While there,…

LP performs 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 due to illness, was in…

LP. Courtesy photo. After concluding her tour for her 2016 album, Lost On You, singer-songwriter LP was almost immediately pulled into a songwriting session. She’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…

Messing around with COIN at BottleRock Napa Valley on May 25, 2018. Photo: Roman Gokhman. I think this column is morphing into more of a “my favorite Roman stories” list, but what still holds true is that memorable interviews still lead better stories. I tell the RIFF staff, which…

Lets Eat Grandma This is the continuation of my top 50 albums of 2018. If you’re just now joining me, start here. If part one didn’t make this clear enough: My musical interests are completely all over the place. This list is a product of me trying to expose…

Whether it’s the self-cannibalization of acts like Greta Van Fleet or the advent of boneless pop-rockers like Imagine Dragons, 2010s rock has largely become over-polished, non-threatening and creatively bankrupt. It’s a state of affairs Angeleno LP (Laura Pergolizzi) combats on her fifth studio album. Having written songs for Rihanna…

Noah Cyrus The biggest, most heart-breaking break-up of Noah Cyrus’ life is not the one the internet has been talking about for the past month. While a three-month celebrity romance crashed and burned in a storm of very public accusations over social media, it was a previous two-year relationship…

LP photographed at Outside Lands Music Festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2018. Photo: Chloe Catajan. It took LP only six record label deals to find to find a label that believed in her musical vision wholeheartedly. She had her breakout hits “Lost On You”…

Photos: Joaquin Cabello, Shawn Robbins and Mike DeWald SAN FRANCISCO — And then there was Janet. The final day of the 2018 edition of Outside Lands closed out with legendary pop icon Janet Jackson. Jackson proved to provide immediate heat to a crowd starting to feel one of the chillier…