Some 90 acts descended upon Champaign-Urbana, IL this past weekend, performing across 14 venues and four days for the fifth annual Pygmalion Music Festival. We sent photographer John Gitchoff to circle the fest, and he delivers this spread including shots... CONTINUE READING PYGMALION 2009 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on September 22, 2009 in , (3 comments)
Tags: Headlights | Iron And Wine | Japandroids | Low | Lucero | Maps And Atlases | Maserati | My Brightest Diamond | Owen | Pygmalion | Ra Ra Riot | RJD2 | So Many Dynamos | The Antlers | The Books | The Hood Internet | Wavves | William Fitzsimmons | Zach Hill
Lucky, a magazine about shopping, is documenting Allie and Becca's tour wardrobe and beauty regimen this week. Find out how they get their hair so shiny!... CONTINUE READING RA RA RIOT GIRLS WEAR CLOTHES»
Posted on August 4, 2009 (1 comments)
Tags: Deer Tick | Ra Ra Riot
To recap: Rostam from Vampire Weekend and Wes from Ra Ra Riot joined laptops and R&B predilections, invited their buddies Ezra and Angel for a couple of tracks, and turned out a really fun summer LP. We happen to love... CONTINUE READING JOIN US FOR A DISCOVERY LISTENING PARTY IN NYC»
Posted on June 22, 2009 (6 comments)
Tags: Discovery | Ra Ra Riot | Rostam Batmanglij | Vampire Weekend | Wes Miles
The VW frontman joins the VW scarfman and Ra Ra Rioter for Discovery's infectious "Carby." Pretend it's VW on an auto-tuned Hot 97 kick at HypeM. Jay-Z?... CONTINUE READING NEW DISCOVERY (FEAT. EZRA KOENIG) - "CARBY"»
Posted on June 15, 2009 in (13 comments)
Tags: Discovery | Outside Lands | Ra Ra Riot | The Dead Weather | Vampire Weekend
You have a couple of MP3s from the Vampire Weekend/Ra Ra Riot electro-pop side project, and Rostam & Wes have kindly put up two more to stream on their site. Good summer album, and wait until you hear "I Wanna... CONTINUE READING HEAR SOME MORE OF DISCOVERY'S LP»
Posted on June 10, 2009 (14 comments)
Tags: Discovery | Ra Ra Riot | Vampire Weekend
Aloha drummer/composer/multi-instrumentalist Cale Parks has successfully stepped out on his own for a couple of full-lengths over the past few years, and this remix of Ra Ra Riot's "Dying Is Fine" comes in advance of his new EP of original... CONTINUE READING CALE PARKS REMIXES RA RA RIOT»
Posted on June 4, 2009 in , (5 comments)
Tags: Cale Parks | Leeds | Lorelei | Ra Ra Riot | Them Crooked Vultures
After we premiered each track from Death Cab's new Open Door EP, the band set out on a North American tour that found its way to UC San Diego's RIMAC Arena last night. Photographer Andrew Youssef made the drive from... CONTINUE READING DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE/RA RA RIOT/COLD WAR KIDS @ RIMAC ARENA (UCSD CAMPUS), LA JOLLA 4/29/09»
Posted on April 30, 2009 in , , (21 comments)
Tags: Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Cold War Kids | Death Cab For Cutie | Ra Ra Riot | Wes Miles
Overlapping waves of hype and backlash behind them, Vampire Weekend have moved on to the business of making new music. Except that they been had making new music since the halcyon Vampire Weekend days. We first heard "White Sky" on... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKENDERS PREPPING SECOND ALBUM, SIDE PROJECT WITH RA RA RIOT »
Posted on April 23, 2009 in (39 comments)
Tags: Discovery | Ra Ra Riot | Rostam Batmanglij | Vampire Weekend | Wes Miles
Last week Ra Ra Riot hung out with Rachael Ray in Austin, days later they're having Craig Ferguson gush over the orange-ness of their Rhumb Line vinyl. They've come a long way from Syracuse. The gentle, orchestral indie pop crew... CONTINUE READING RA RA RIOT BRING "CAN YOU TELL" TO FERGUSON »
Posted on March 26, 2009 in (33 comments)
Tags: Monsters Of Folk | Ra Ra Riot
While out in LA, Barsuk pop crew Ra Ra Riot did three things of note: a session at KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic (full band), a sold-out show at the El Rey Theatre (full band), and a full-on power slide a... CONTINUE READING RA RA RIOT/TELEKINESIS/CUT OFF YOUR HANDS @ EL REY THEATRE, LOS ANGELES 2/28/09»
Posted on March 4, 2009 in , , (2 comments)
Tags: Cut Off Your Hands | Maps And Atlases | Ra Ra Riot | Red Cortez | Telekinesis
As we previously reported, the feisty foodie is returning to Austin this year for her second awkwardly titled (and conceptualized) SXSW showcase: Rose's Mojito and Rachael Ray's Feedback: The B-Side. It takes place 3/21 at Maggie Mae's with the Hold... CONTINUE READING HOLD STEADY, THERMALS, RA RA RIOT TO PLAY RACHAEL RAY'S SECOND SXSW SHOWCASE»
Posted on February 26, 2009 (14 comments)
Tags: Black Lips | Ra Ra Riot | Rachael Ray | The Hold Steady | The Thermals | Weezer
The last time we saw "Can You Tell," Ra Ra Riot were showing David Letterman his first cello. For the The Rhumb Line track's official video, the Syracuse-based Barsukers show up outside someone's door breathing steam, showing themselves one-by-one through... CONTINUE READING NEW RA RA RIOT VIDEO - "CAN YOU TELL" »
Posted on February 6, 2009 in (5 comments)
Tags: Jay-Z | Ra Ra Riot | Wavves
It's a match made in blog heaven, these two getting together on a track like this: "Ghost Under Rocks" sees Ra Ra Riot at the height of their melodramatic, orchestral pop powers; Passion Pit are an ascendant band that make... CONTINUE READING NEW RA RA RIOT - "GHOST UNDER ROCKS (PASSION PIT REMIX)"»
Posted on January 26, 2009 in , (6 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | No Age | Passion Pit | Ra Ra Riot
The production throughout Pepi Ginsberg's third LP Red, expertly handled by Dr. Dog's Scott McMicken, steeps her vocals in a form-fitting, vintage cast. This cover of Ra Ra's typically bittersweet "Oh, La," though, trades some of that dust for somewhat... CONTINUE READING PEPI GINSBERG COVERS RA RA RIOT»
Posted on October 29, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Fucked Up | Pepi Ginsberg | Ra Ra Riot | The Spinto Band
Last night, Syracuse Barsuk troupe Ra Ra Riot brought their meaningful-core to Letterman, performing the poppy but emotional "Can You Tell." There's much smiling and mugging between band members, but frontman Wes Miles knows just when to get that faraway... CONTINUE READING RA RA RIOT TAKE "CAN YOU TELL" TO LETTERMAN»
Posted on October 14, 2008 in , (28 comments)
Tags: David Letterman | Ra Ra Riot
The "Too Too Too Fast" live vid was cute, but I'm glad to see Ra Ra Riot put the big push behind "Ghost Under Rocks." Two weeks ago the band set up with maps and rhumb lines for the official... CONTINUE READING RA RA RIOT BRING "GHOST UNDER ROCKS" TO CONAN»
Posted on September 3, 2008 in , (11 comments)
Tags: Ra Ra Riot | SXSW | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | The Shins
Earlier this week we went up to Syracuse with Ra Ra Riot for a live take of The Rhumb Line's "Too Too Too Fast." The production values were high and the sound crisp, but still, it was a live clip.... CONTINUE READING NEW RA RA RIOT VIDEO - "GHOST UNDER ROCKS"»
Posted on August 21, 2008 in (14 comments)
Tags: Patrick Wolf | Ra Ra Riot
Syracuse's Barsuk signees Ra Ra Riot recently swarmed their hometown in hopes to find a nice attic to film some songs. Apparently their personal attics weren't big enough, because the troupe, along with directors Taryn Gould and Emily Kowalcyzk, went... CONTINUE READING NEW RA RA RIOT LIVE VIDEO - "TOO TOO TOO FAST"»
Posted on August 19, 2008 in , (20 comments)
Tags: Ra Ra Riot
I couldn't make Siren Festival this year and Amrit and Brandon were at Pitchfork, so ... how was it? Based on the photographic display from Kyle Dean Reinford I guess sweaty? How was the sound? Did you shoot the freak?... CONTINUE READING ISLANDS AND ANNUALS AND JICKS: SIREN FEST 2008 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on July 21, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Annuals | Beach House | Broken Social Scene | Dragons Of Zynth | Film School | Islands | Jaguar Love | Parts And Labor | Ra Ra Riot | Stephen Malkmus | The Dodos | The Helio Sequence | These Are Powers | Times New Viking | Victoria Legrand
André Allen Anjos's Remix Artist Collective came on our radar last spring with some inspired Bloc Party and Tokyo Police Club remixes. We've kept an ear on the 23-year-old Portuguese artist ever since, and late last year cooked up with... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM PRESENTS... RAC VOL. 1»
Posted on June 11, 2008 in (63 comments)
Tags: Au Revoir Simone | Bloc Party | Chromeo | Femme Generation | Ra Ra Riot | Robbers On High Street | Tokyo Police Club | You Say Party! We Say Die!
