Mosswood Meltdown will return in July, this time preceded with a pre-party with Pavement, Vivian Girls and Wednesday.

Glenn Gumin spends his days on a college campus as a higher education administrator involved in academic affairs and student & financial services. After many years of piano lessons, he's now ...

Bob Weir, Grateful Dead guitarist and psychedelic rock pioneer who shaped the Bay Area’s live music culture, has died at 78.

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Morocco-born, Manitoba, Canada-raised artist Faouzia Ouihya has been making music for the better part of a decade, racking up millions of streams alongside awards for her songwriting and her powerful ...

This week’s edition highlights unique vocal ranges in different genres as we feature a dance cut by Izzy Camina, alt-rock from Ratboys and PRYVT, folk from Lydia Luce, psych rock from Inner Wave, ...

This week we’ve got prog metal from SOEN, magnificent guitar playing from Leon Knight, art rock from Ryan Reidy, and various flavors of pop from The Lives of Famous Men, LØLØ and Moody Joody. And our ...

Editor’s note: Publicist Ken Weinstein shared this message with his friends last week, and has granted permission for RIFF to share it publicly. Adam Schlesinger passed away last week of complications ...

BottleRock Napa Valley will again sell a limited number of advance tickets to next spring’s festival before the holidays. The holiday presale three-day general admission, VIP, Skydeck and and Marriott ...