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…

Samuel Shea’s and Julien O’Neill’s trip to Los Angeles in January 2015 was just supposed to be a visit. The New York City duo had an opportunity to record a few tracks and log some time on the beach. “We had had an offer through one of Julian’s friends to…