Your Smith (Caroline Smith), courtesy. This week we bring you soul music from Cautious Clay, alt-rock from Roe Kapara, pop from Dela Kay, Your Smith and Windser, and folk by Susto Stringband. Cautious Clay, “No Champagne (6am) — This new track is a soulful meditation on connection beyond celebration.…

RIFF photographers’ best work in 2020 included these shots of Poppy, Seventeen, The Struts, Colony House, Little Image, KISS, Injury Reserve, Suzi Analogue, Elbow, Tones & I, Thundercat, Thrice, Tove Lo, George Clinton and Ramblin’ Jack Elliot. In this abbreviated year of concerts, we asked our photographers to provide…

Your Smith performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Sept. 7 2019. Chloe Catajan/Staff. Caroline Smith has made music for as long as she can remember. Your Smith Chelsea Jade 8 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 14 Popscene at Rickshaw Stop Tickets: $15. Her early teen years were spent as…

K.Flay performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Sept. 7 2019. Photos: Chloe Catajan OAKLAND — K.Flay, made her triumphant Bay Area return Saturday night at the Fox Theater in her biggest headlining stage production to date in the first week of her Solutions Tour. The artist, who’s…

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…