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,…

The best albums of 2021 include Evanescence, Vince Staples, Julien Baker, Lindsey Buckingham, Black Midi, Lucy Dacus, Leon Bridges, Faye Webster and Shame. Best of 2021 Welcome to the sixth part of the top 50 albums of the year, according to the RIFF staff that reviewed hundreds this year.…

Sam Fender, Seventeen Going Under British singer-songwriter Sam Fender made waves with his debut EP, Dead Boys, back in 2018, a six-track endeavor that he penned entirely solo. Less than a year later, his debut album Hypersonic Missiles put him at the top, debuting at No. 1 on the U.K. charts,…