Melanie Martinez performs at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on June 6, 2023. Derek Fisher/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — A few thousand camera phones shot into the air at the utterance of simple phrase, played along with a recorded video, to open Melanie Martinez’s sold-out show at Bill…

Frankie Cosmos performs at The Fillmore in San Francisco on Nov. 5, 2018. Photos: Chloe Catajan. SAN FRANCISCO — Frankie Cosmos and Kero Kero Bonito brought their co-headlining tour to The Fillmore Monday, and it was the stuff modern pop dreams are made of. New York’s Frankie Cosmos, led by Greta…

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…

Hazel English performs at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco during Noise Pop on Feb. 21, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — One glance at the lineup for the Hazel English-headlined Noise Pop show at the Rickshaw Stop Tuesday, you might see several female-fronted pop acts. But each performer offered a…