#hurray for the riff raff

[fairweathermyth]

Let's go paint the oil cans, write our names on a grain of sand. No one will remember us like I will remember us.

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF Colossus of Roads (Official Lyric Video)

[camojacketfag]

a loaded gun lost in an ocean of regret…

[nonesuchrecords]

Among the 70 Best Alt-Country Albums of All Time per Paste magazine are Hurray for the Riff Raff’s LIFE ON EARTH, Yola’s Walk Through Fire, Rhiannon Giddens’ Freedom Highway, k.d. lang’s Ingénue, Billy Bragg & Wilco's Mermaid Avenue, Carolina Chocolate Drops' Genuine Negro Jig, Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball, and Wilco's Being There. You can see the full list here.

[jennpelly]

Hard to overstate my love for the new Hurray for the Riff Raff album "The Past Is Still Alive" and in the spirit of the title phrase I've been in a HFTRR YouTube-archive rabbit hole that I hope never ends

[soundgrammar]

Listen/purchase: Hawkmoon by Hurray For The Riff Raff

[fairiepunk]

Are you queer? Do you have religious trauma? Did you grow up in a rural area in the Bible Belt? Did you and your father have a strained relationship but since his death you’re noticing that you’re much more like him than you thought? (Okay that last one might be a little too specific.)

If you answered yes to any of those, you might like my new EP! If you do like it, please reblog this post so that other folks who need to feel less alone in this fucky life can maybe find comfort in my music too. 

[bifurious-rex]

Don't become an angel with a broken wing We need you back down here on earth Nothing is as painful as birth Time flies when you're getting old I was born with a baby boy soul Maybe someday I'll see you again In a field, a war, a kingdom of sand

Snake Plant (The Past is Still Alive) by Hurray for the Riff Raff (alt ID: youtube link)

[thebowerypresents]

Hurray for the Riff Riff Bring New Album to Sold-Out Music Hall of Williamsburg

Hurray for the Riff Raff – Music Hall of Williamsburg – March 5, 2024

“It’s so good to be home.” That was Alynda Segarra beaming in front of a sold-out Music Hall of Williamsburg on Tuesday night, the Bronx native and band Hurray for the Riff Raff feeling right at home in Brooklyn wearing matching black vests and big smiles. With a brand-new album — The Past Is Still Alive — out for barely a week and already gaining critical acclaim, the set leaned heavily on the new material, opening, as the record does, with “Alibi,” Segarra with one foot in personal folk, the other planted in fuzzy rock — one in a sandal, one in a black boot. “Buffalo” showed off deft songwriting skills, the rhythmic singing and catchy chorus underpinned by the evocative, dreamlike lyrics.

The songs were beefed up by the backing band: slide guitar on that “Buffalo” adding atmospherics, a propulsive beat from drummer Yan Westerlund on “Hawkmoon” driving a straight rocker, and Nnamdï (who opened the show) coaxing a groove with his urgent bass playing on “Rhododendron,” off the 2022 LP Life on Earth. Segarra’s voice was the centerpiece, delivering one captivating lyric after another: lines like “I know that it’s dangerous, but I wanna see you undress / Wrap you up in the bomb shelter of my feather bed” in “Colossus of Roads.”

Saxophonist Lynn Ligammari joined the band midway through, turning “Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)” Springsteen-esque as Segarra belted out the refrain, “Nothing will stop me now,” the crowd believing every word. Hurray for the Riff Raff also played selections from older releases, including the rawer bluesy energy of “Good Time Blues (An Outlaw’s Lament)” and Ligammari adding mournful soul to the weighty “The Body Electric,” which Segarra said “started it all” for the musician. The set ended with “Ogallala,” the band building to a triumphant swell, Segarra singing, “To watch the world burn / With a tear in my eye,” everyone in the room feeling right at home. —A. Stein | @Neddyo

(Hurray for the Riff Raff play The Sinclair in Cambridge, Mass., tonight.)

Photos courtesy of Jenna Murray | @jennamurray

[softsnowflakesonthebeach]

Got to keep moving // It's my life, I can't lose it

[fairweathermyth]

And I want to be like that, running wild and running free This year tried to kill us, baby Well good luck trying, you can't catch me

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF "Buffalo" on CBS Saturday Sessions

[camojacketfag]

Collecting items of the past in hopes of connecting with a father I desperately long for. Somehow, my room is coming together, slowly but surely.

[nonesuchrecords]

Happy birthday, Alynda Segarra (aka Hurray for the Riff Raff)!

[ur-mentallyill-wench]

My amazing music taste (ignore Olivia Rodrigo one of my friends were using my Spotify)

[bluemoonperegrine]

This is for the hardcore Gael fans.

"Little Things" by Hurray for the Riff Raff sounds like it could be part of the "The Science of Sleep" soundtrack. Even the lyrics work for it.

Bonus gifs!

[agirlnamedbone]

kind of want to go door to door asking people if they have a moment to talk about hurray for the riff raff's recently released masterwork, LP 'the past is still alive'