Tegan and Sara, “Crybaby.” It’s hard to believe Tegan and Sara are on their 10th album. The twin Quin sisters broke out of Vancouver largely on the strength of their fourth album, 2004’s So Jealous, and have since gone platinum and won multiple awards. Their new album, Crybaby, was spawned…

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Kristin (@krihstyn) on Oct 2, 2019 at 3:25am PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A funny thing happened when Tegan and Sara were working on their new memoir High School: They discovered an old demo tape that they recorded in their teens. Realizing the…

After distancing itself from its acoustic roots in favor of ‘80s synth-pop—to varied results—twin sister duo Tegan and Sara updated its pop elements and reincorporated them into its original indie folk sound palette. Hey, I’m Just Like You will be a pleasant surprise for those who’ve followed the sisters’…

Matthew Dear remains a staple of Detroit’s electronic and avant-pop scenes. His six-album discography covers intelligent dance music (IDM), downtempo, deep house and even post-punk. It’s been six years since his last album, and he seems aware of that. Bunny clocks in at more than an hour with 14 songs,…

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…

Photos: Chloe Catajan SAN FRANCISCO — A lot can change over a decade. For indie rock sisters Tegan and Sara, the late aughts were marked by a tough period that consisted of personal hardships, a divorce and the loss of a relative. Tegan and Sara channeled the heartache and grief by creating…