Indie rock artists Melina Duterte (aka Jay Som) and Ellen Kempner of Palehound have joined forces on their new collaborative project. While there’s some defiant irony in two queer bachelorettes calling themselves Bachelor, there’s not a hint of irony in their album Doomin’ Sun, which embraces the sincere and vulnerable lyricism…

Every week there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms like 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’ve pooled our resources to find some of…

Photos: Brandon Jernigan Some wondered how an act so previously successful as Peter Bjorn & John could get bumped from a venue the size of the Fillmore to a much smaller one like Slim’s. Perhaps the Swedish indie rock band had simply taken too long of a break between…