Phoenix photographed at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, on June 10, 2017. Photo: Alessio Neri RIFF doubled in readership in 2017, and as editor-in-chief, so did my workload. As one of five people running our humble little publication on a day-to-day basis, while planning as far out as…

Dreamcar, courtesy Steve Erle. The fate of a supergroup is never certain. After all, there tend to be more Monsters of Folks and SuperHeavys than Creams or Travelling Wilburyses. Davey Havok (of AFI and Blaqk Audio) and all the members of No Doubt who aren’t Gwen Stefani have been…

Dreamcar performs at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on April 9, 2017. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — A few minutes into L.A. new wave band Dreamcar’s sold-out show at the Great American Music Hall show on Sunday, it became difficult to remember this band was playing…

Dreamcar, courtesy Steve Erle. The last time drummer Adrian Young played a “first show” with a band he called his own was in 1989, when the 19-year-old became a member of a little-known punk and ska collective called No Doubt. Dreamcar, Oslo 8 p.m., Sunday Great American Music Hall…