With The Punches, courtesy. This week we feature the nostalgic reflections of the Bay Area’s Mickelson, the skate-punk revival of The Venomous Pinks and With the Punches, and the inventive verses of Lyrics Born (also a local!), YXNG K.A and Ez Mil. Lyrics Born featuring Sitcom Dad and Dan the Automator, “This…

A group of Bay Area artists, including Grammy-Award-winning blues artist Fantastic Negrito, rockers the Stone Foxes, Tim Bluhm of The Mother Hips and Americana band Rainbow Girls have contributed songs to a new charity album that will benefit the homeless in San Francisco. The album, called Blanket the Homeless,…

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…

The All-American Rejects perform at The Masonic in San Francisco on July 14, 2017. Photo: Gary Chancer Three additional concerts will double as fundraisers for people affected by the North Bay wildfires. In Napa, the Live in the Vineyard music festival and Blue Note Napa are hosting a concert in…