The Head and The Heart, “Every Shade of Blue.” “It’s been a long year/ The wrong year/ To be left alone,” vocalist-guitarist Jonathan Russell sings on the opening title track of Every Shade of Blue, the fifth album from The Head and The Heart. It’s a heads up that the…

The Killers. Photos: Chloe Catajan, Martin Lacey and courtesy NAPA — The Killers turned the heat up in Napa on the second day of BottleRock Napa Valley Saturday. The Las Vegas band may not have been responsible for the noticeable increase in sunshine, but it brought the glitz and glamor…

Courtesy Kaique Rocha Happy New Year from the RIFF Team! We decided to do something a little different for our weekly Tuesday Tracks new music column. Below, we present to you 10 tracks to help settle in to the first day of 2018. Some of these are traditional, while some…

San Francisco artist collective Garden Sessions Presents is producing a concert series throughout November providing financial and emotional support to people affected by the North Bay fires. “From SF with Love” is bringing together 12 bands, with all proceeds from ticket sales going to undocumented immigrants in Sonoma County via Undocufund and to the…

Green Day. Photos: Ian Young. OAKLAND — Anyone living in the neighborhood of Oracle Arena could’ve been forgiven for thinking that Saturday night’s installment of Not So Silent Night didn’t begin until 10:30 p.m., because despite an actual start time of 6 p.m., the arena remained something of a library until the…

Vampire Weekend performs at Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park on Aug. 11, 2013. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Vampire Weekend performs at Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park on Aug. 11, 2013. Also, check out videos and photos of Foals, Hall & Oates, The Head and the…

At the final of three sold-out shows at The Fillmore, Sunday, keyboardist Kenny Hensley of Seattle folkies The Head and the Heart was positioned far stage-left — out of the prime real-estate controlled by vocalist Jonathan Russell and vocalist-guitarist Josiah Johnson. The band may want to rethink that strategy, as…

The Head and the Heart, courtesy: Sub Pop. Seattle folk-pop ensemble The Head and the Heart may be headlining three consecutive shows at The Fillmore next week, but it has not wandered too far away from its street busking, house party origins. Don’t count them out as the entertainment…