Upon listening to Ra Ra Riot’s remix of Freelance Whales’ “Hannah,” from last year’s triumphant Weathervanes, you would think it’s produced by Discovery (Ra Ra frontman Wes Miles’ side project…
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In a touching example of bi-coastal orchestral pop solidarity, the morning benders’ Chris Chu has remixed Ra Ra Riot’s gorgeous “Too Dramatic” into a mellow, chillwave-y, quasi-R&B slow jam.
GIVEAWAY: Sidewalks LP and “Cameras” 7″ single both on vinyl → FADER Label | 11.02.10 | EMUSIC | AMAZON | INSOUND | ITUNES 74 — [Rating Scale] [Stream Full Album]…
If anyone would condense Syracuse orchestral indie-poppers Ra Ra Riot’s excellent second record The Orchard into one song, it might be The Antlers’ Peter Silberman, a man who bedroom-crafted one…
REC’D MP3: Wiley – “It’s Wiley” British grime mainstay Wiley, fresh off tweeting 180 202 new songs (including his whole upcoming record “The Elusive 2”) and leaving Jamaican label Island…
STREET DATE: 8.24.10 | EMUSIC | AMAZON| INSOUND | ITUNES RATE THE ORCHARD [STARRATER] LISTEN Stream Entire Album GIVEAWAY: Ra Ra Riot’s The Orchard (on vinyl LP and Deluxe CD+DVD)…
When Vampire Weekend producer, composer, songwriter, and sometimes vocalist Rostam Batmanglij remixed — under his remix moniker Boys Like Us — OK GO’s “White Knuckles”, he had only one thing…
LISTEN: New The National – “You Were A Kindness” The National stopped by Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current and performed a (quite gorgeous) four-song set that consisted of High Violet‘s…
To thank their fans for downloading and liking their new single, “Boy” off of their upcoming LP The Orchard, Ra Ra Riot are giving away a remix of the single,…
Here is the newest from Ra Ra Riot’s forthcoming LP, The Orchard (which is a whole lot of fun, by the way), due out August 24 on Barsuk Records. Hold…
CHECK OUT: 10 Minutes Worth of More New Daft Punk from Tron: Legacy Thanks to a loyal readyer, Kavinsky_69, for sending the YouTube link to 10 minutes worth of new…
Ra Ra Riot released a new three-track EP today called Boy, featuring new music that you can expect on their forthcoming LP The Orchard, which is currently sitting on an…
We’re back from our mini vacation! LISTEN: Major Lazer – “Jump Up” (Thom Yorke Remix) Major Lazer’s just-released Lazers Never Die EP is definitely something you should check out, if…
Philly’s beloved Free Energy have extended their current North American tour, playing gigs with Ra Ra Riot, Delta Spirit, Jukebox The Ghost, Miniature Tigers and more.
I watched Gigantic for the first time tonight. It was an odd movie, for sure, but I was delighted to see the movie’s last few seconds scored by Animal Collective’s…
I have an uncharacteristically complicated relationship with the wonderful Roisin Murphy. I absolutely throw it down when one of her tracks comes on. She is everything I look for in…
Discovery LP XL out July 7th 86/100 [Rating Scale] [rating:86/100] With the recent passing of Michael Jackson, every blog I read had some kind of eulogy to the king of…
“So Insane” is another track off Discovery’s metronomic album, LP that has a so-insane hook, “oh baby you got me going so insane and I just don’t know what’s going…
I have three confessions: I love Vampire Weekend, and I love Ra Ra Riot, and I love Discovery. What Discovery is, besides the spaceship and a TV channel, is Ra…
Wes Miles pulls at his clothes like he wants to say “Free me from this earthly prison!” He stares into nothing. He turns this way and that with lifts and…
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