Mount Kimbie, courtesy T Bone Fletcher. Brigitte Calls Me Baby exudes Roy Orbison cool, ThxSoMch explores nu-metal, Sammy Virji expounds on U.K. garage rock, Q Marsden blends R&B with pop, Nitefreak and Emmanuel Jal bring the Afro-house rhythms and Mount Kimbie tries on newfound shoegaze. Brigitte Calls Me Baby,…

Kyle Kohner’s five-part series ranking the 50 best albums of 2017 continues with numbers 40 to 31. Missed the first entry? Start at the beginning. 40. Ariel Pink – Dedicated to Baby Jameson Dedicated to Bobby Jameson signals a return to Ariel Pink’s roots with a lo-fi approach, thus making this project feel less manufactured…

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…