Rina Sawayama performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 6, 2022. Onome Uyovbievbo and Matt Pang/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Fresh off a stadium tour and with 30 years of experience, Green Day showed how to make Outside Lands bigger and better with a nonstop barrage of early classics,…

Following 2017’s This Old Dog and 2014’s landmark album Salad Days, Canadian singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco continued to elaborate on his established qualities. Folky guitar and introspective lyricism have come to define his self-proclaimed “jizz jazz,” but Mac DeMarco always provides a fresh twist to push beyond his previous works. On…

Though many might know him from his stint as Mac DeMarco’s guitarist, Peter Sagar also creates his own music as Homeshake. Over the past seven years, he’s branched out on three albums from lo-fi indie pop to explore realms of alt-R&B and bedroom synth-pop. Sagar’s nonconformist tendencies come to a head…

Kyle Kohner’s five-part series ranking his picks for the 50 best albums of 2017 takes a step closer to revealing the best of the best, as we continue the countdown with numbers 20-11. Missed everything up until now? Start at the beginning. 20. Toro y Moi – Boo Boo With uninspired attempts at…

RIFF wants you to get out to more shows! To help you with that, here are our picks for where to go and who to see next week. RIFF’s video concert series features artists of all genres, with a focus on the best hidden gems the local music scene has to offer. If you’re…