Derek Hoke, courtesy Alex Berger. Synth-pop takes over Tuesday Tracks, with songs from Alex Lilly, Emily Afton, Quinn Christopherson and St. Lucia, as well as experimental music from Jesca Hoop, Americana rock from Derek Hoke, blues rock revival by the Stone Foxes and folk-pop by Madison Cunningham. Alex Lilly,…

A group of Bay Area artists, including Grammy-Award-winning blues artist Fantastic Negrito, rockers the Stone Foxes, Tim Bluhm of The Mother Hips and Americana band Rainbow Girls have contributed songs to a new charity album that will benefit the homeless in San Francisco. The album, called Blanket the Homeless,…

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…

The Stone Foxes at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco on July 28, 2017. Photo: John Ciccarelli Perennial San Francisco blues rockers The Stone Foxes are back with a new EP, Visalia, and a massive tour where the quintet will see 40 cities between September and early December.…

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…

Con Brio is a hard band to pin down. Known for its energetic (to say the least) live shows, the San Francisco septet is part funk and part rock, compared to everyone from Sly and the Family Stone to Prince to James Brown. Blue Bear School of Music 11th Annual…

The Stone Foxes perform at the Front Porch Music Festival at Wente Family Vineyards in Livermore on Aug. 31, 2013. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. You have roughly 2.3 seconds to gather all of the energy in this car chase of a song by The Stone Foxes. That’s not enough time for…

BottleRock Napa Valley 2014 lineup. While tens of thousands flooded the Napa Valley Expo last May for five days of music, gourmet food, wine, comedy and parties, and most of them went home happy, the two men who organized the inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley — without previous festival experience — lost millions…

The Stone Foxes perform at the Front Porch Music Festival at Wente Family Vineyards in Livermore on Aug. 31, 2013. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. The Stone Foxes perform at the Front Porch Music Festival at Wente Family Vineyards in Livermore on Aug. 31. Scroll below to see photos and videos of…