The Paradox talks a rapid rise, EP 'Proceed With Caution, working with Travis Barker and bringing instruments back to the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Portola Festival closed its fifth edition Sunday with a day that belonged to Sweden. Zara Larsson brought her Midnight Sun tour to Pier 80 for its final summer stop and pulled Saturday ...

But don’t feel bad. She’s more talented than us, anyway. And she was built for this type of thing. The timing of Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters–her first record in eight years–may have been ...

Lionel Richie is again postponing his San Francisco concert, this time due to needing surgery to treat an irregular heartbeat ...

Miranda Lambert leans into disco on her new LP, pairing playful production and sharp songwriting with Ella Langley and Chris ...

Em Beihold, Photo: Kirt Barnett. SoCal singer-songwriter and pianist Em Beihold has lyrics that have bounced around in her head for years. She doesn’t always write them down, but they linger. She ...

/* TFP - Riffmagazine.com */ (function() { var opts = { artist: document.head.querySelector('[property="cf:artist"]').content, song: document.head.querySelector ...

The San Francisco Symphony performs at Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco on July 4, 2021. Courtesy Paige K. Parsons. San Francisco Symphony musicians and its board appear to have avoided a strike.

There are those for whom rock and roll is a transformative experience, people who are remade in the crucible of overdriven guitars and pummeling drumming. As someone who’s been through it, I can tell ...

There are musicians who burn brightly and then burn out, and others whose light illuminates, not glaringly but satisfyingly, over time. Rarer are the artists who have successfully done both, having ...

Jennifer Finch performs with L7 in Brazil in 2025. Photo: Diego Castanho. Jennifer Finch, the bassist, vocalist and songwriter who helped define L7’s uncompromising punk and grunge sound, has died ...