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Death Cab for Cutie Dig Out Deep Cuts for Philly Tour Opener

Photo: Oliver J. Lopena for RollingStone.com Death Cab for Cutie kicked off their U.S. tour last night with a stop at Philadelphia’s Tower Theater, a converted movie house with acoustics ready-made for frontman Ben Gibbard’s supernaturally clean and earnest whisper. Gibbard, recently engaged to fellow indie icon Zooey Deschanel, took the stage after solid performances from opening acts Cold War Kids and Ra Ra Riot and delivered an intimate solo rendition of “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” to

Published: 2009-04-08 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows

Sasquatch! lineup has Jane's Addiction, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, many more

Music & nightlifeSasquatch! Music Festival announced its lineup: Jane's Addiction (featuring all four original members), Kings of Leon, Nine Inch Nails, Ben Harper & Relentless7, Erykah Badu, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, Vince Mira, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, TV on the Radio, Ra Ra Riot, the wrens, DeVotchKa, Silversun Pickups, the airborne toxic event, The Avett Brothers, M. Ward, Calexico and CHROMEO.

Published: 2009-02-18 Provider: Seattle Times

A&E Dispatch | Sasquatch! lineup has Jane's Addiction, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, many more

Music & nightlifeSasquatch! Music Festival announced its lineup: Jane's Addiction (featuring all four original members), Kings of Leon, Nine Inch Nails, Ben Harper & Relentless7, Erykah Badu, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, Vince Mira, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, TV on the Radio, Ra Ra Riot, the wrens, DeVotchKa, Silversun Pickups, the airborne toxic event, The Avett Brothers, M. Ward, Calexico and CHROMEO.

Published: 2009-02-18 Provider: Seattle Times

TRAGEDY WON'T QUIET RIOT

HOW'S this for a setup to recording your debut album: You form an indie band in college and - less than a year later - your pop sextet becomes the talk of New York's CMJ music fest in 2006. You release an EP soon after and, in 2007, become the...

Published: 2008-10-14 Provider: New York Post Keywords: band, Miles, Pike, drummer, John, Ra, music, songs, album, lyrics, play, record, music

Artists to Watch: Six Acts Defining Rock and Pop in 2008

The summer is almost over, which means it’s time for Rolling Stone to christen a new batch of Artists to Watch for 2008. Click below for the six artists making the most interesting, controversial and exciting music right now, incuding anthem mongers Low Vs Diamond (above), jumpy chamber poppers Ra Ra Riot and icy chanteuse Lykke Li. • Artists to Watch: Six Artists Defining Rock and Pop in 2008 [Photo: Theo Wenner for Rolling Stone]

Published: 2008-08-20 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Artist to Watch

SIREN BLARES AT BOARDWALK

The Siren Music Festival invades southern Brooklyn for the eighth year today at high-noon. The free all-day shindig will showcase indie rock veterans, emerging artists and two DJs. Sixteen acts from across the country - including Ra Ra Riot, the...

Published: 2008-07-19 Provider: New York Post Keywords: Malkmus, bands, Avenue, Music, Street, play, set, several, small, strong, under, music

Review: Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line

Indie-poppers rise from tragedy.

Published: 2008-08-21 Provider: Crave Online

The Rhumb Line by Ra Ra Riot

This is the debut full-length album for the upstate New York indie rock band. [Rock, Indie]

Published: 2008-08-19 Provider: Metacritic

Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily

• AC/DC revealed some Black Ice details by announcing the new album’s track list and release date. The Aussie rockers even hung out in the Smoking Section. Meanwhile, some fans’ interpretations of the first single “Rock N’ Roll Train” left us, well, thunderstruck. If you want blood bad performances, you’ve got it. • We inched closer to the release of Metallica’s Death Magnetic with a pair of song snippets, a pair of cheap European concert dates and the premiere of first single “The Day That Never Comes.” But can Death and a bunch of other big autumn albums help save the music industry? • The music world was saddened by the passing of Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore. The band started a memorial fund in his honor, Blues Traveler’s John Popper and Crash producer Steve Lillywhite paid their respects, and we dedicated a Rock List to his music. • Nestled within our Bush-bashing new issue, Ra Ra Riot, Lykke Li and Low Vs Diamond were named among the up-and-coming acts in this year’s crop of Artists to Watch.

Published: 2008-08-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Ra Ra Riot Devote Lives to the Road

Ra Ra Riot have finalized their touring plans for the coming months and, well, they're a doozy. If you think starting things off with six South by Southwest shows are rough, wait 'til you see

Published: 2008-03-11 Provider: Artist Direct

Paris Hilton Goes To Jail, Cartel’s Bubble Bursts, Ruff Ryders CEO Busted For Drugs

After enduring a series of jokes make at her expense at the MTV Movie Awards, Paris Hilton checked herself in early to jail late last night.Hilton turned herself in at the Men’s Central Jail in downtown L.A. at 11:15 p.m. and was booked at 11:38, Us Weekly reports. The body of missing Ra Ra Riot drummer John Pike has been found. The twenty-three-year-old musician disappeared after leaving a party near the beach in Fairhaven, MA early Saturday morning. Pike’s body was found on the beach near around 4 pm yesterday afternoon, about 200 yards from where his cell phone was discovered. You know that bubble on New York City’s Westside Highway in which Cartel is recording its new album for a show on MTV? Yeah, well it burst. The bubble wasn’t designed, apparently, to handle the light drizzle we experienced in the city last night, and early this morning the bubble’s front wall shattered. It was only a matter of time before Pete Wentz and his girlfriend, Ashlee Simpson, decided to work together. Wentz reportedly collaborated with Ashlee on one song, set to appear on her new album. Martin Scorsese’s new Rolling Stones documentary, Shine A Light, will appear in theatres on September 21st. The film is said to include lots of footage from the Stones’ Beacon Theatre dates last year where guest performers included Jack White, Buddy Guy, and Christina Aguilera. Because what the world really needs is another biopic, a film based on Michelle Phillips’ memoir California Dreamin’: The True Story of the the Mamas and the Papas is in the works. “It’s not something I can really talk about in detail,” Phillips said. “But I will say this — it will happen, and it will happen in a good way. The gears are all churning.” Writer and friend of the band Marshall Brickman, is reportedly attached. Ruff Ryders CEO Darrin “Dee” Dean and an associate were arrested in New York last week. The cops initially s

Published: 2007-06-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Morning News Roundup

Ra Ra Riot Bring "Can You Tell" To Ferguson

Published: 2009-03-26 Provider: StereoGum