Bandcamp Friday Aug. 7, 2020. Clockwise from left: Zombi, Kamaal Williams, The Caretaker, Vein.FM, Master Boot Record and Nelson Dialect. If anyone has a unique opportunity to support independent music, it’s Bandcamp. But the Bandcamp Friday concept has taken that support to a new level. Over the past three…

Killswitch Engage performs at The Warfield in San Francisco on April 18, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — Killswitch Engage and Parkway Drive brought their co-headlining “Collapse The World” tour to The Warfield Thursday night. Killswitch Engage performs at The Warfield in San Francisco on April 18, 2019.…

Geoff Rickly of Thursday performs at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 10, 2019. Photos: Shawn Robbins. SAN FRANCISCO — Eighteen years ago, when Thursday appeared, punk and hardcore music was in a weird place. Bands like Blink-182 and Jimmy Eat World played TRL, Glassjaw…

Every Time I Die performs at The UC Theatre in Berkeley on Nov. 23, 2018. Photos: Joaquin Cabello BERKELEY — Every Time I Die brought its 20 Years of Bullshit tour to the UC Theatre Friday in a night full of chaos. For the Buffalo, New York band, an explosion…

Code Orange. Photos: Shawn Robbins SAN FRANCISCO — Drawing from its 2017 Grammy-nominated LP Forever and this year’s The Hurt Will Go On EP, Code Orange called out to its audience with pure intensity and ferocity Thursday at August Hall. Show Me The Body. From Reba Meyers’ grungy vocals on “Bleeding In…

Vein, courtesy. 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 new singles from all genres and backgrounds, so you can…