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Hurray for the Riff Raff released their eighth studio album The Past Is Still Alive in February. Eight months later, front person Alynda Segarra is still exploring new ground from the record with the release of an official music video for “Buffalo.” In the clip, Segarra finds themselves in the company of emotive wildlife figures in a museum and out in the fields they can be seen roaming through.

The “Buffalo” journey continued as Hurray for the Riff Raff took the stage on the Kelly Clarkson Show for a performance of the somber record.

Hurray for the Riff Raff dropped by CBS Mornings’ studio to perform three tracks from their new album The Past Is Still Alive for “Saturday Sessions.”

For the mini-concert, singer-songwriter Alynda Segarra — who uses they/them pronouns — delivered the first three songs from the recently released LP, “Alibi,” “Buffalo,” and “Hawkmoon,” accompanied by NNAMDÏ on bass.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Segarra broke down The Past Is Still Alive, an album informed by grief, like the death of Segarra’s father and, as on “Alibi,” a childhood friend who had become addicted to heroin.

One week before Alynda Segarra’s father died, he mailed them a package. It was a box of all the music Segarra had sent him over the span of nearly 20 years, ever since they’d left their childhood home in the Bronx to travel the country. Everything they’d recorded, from burned CDs for street and jazz bands they’d played in, to records from Segarra’s own band of more than a decade, Hurray for the Riff Raff, was in there.

“He had absolutely every single thing I’d given him since,...

It’s been a decade of reinvention for Hurray for the Riff Raff, the recording moniker of singer-songwriter Alynda Segarra. After years of street-busking and self-releasing acoustic records, Segarra cemented their status as an old-timey roots standard-bearer on 2014 Small Town Heroes. But over the course of their past two albums–2017’s The Navigator and 2021’s Life On Earth–Segarra chipped away at that artistic identity by exploring other musical lineages (everything from alt-pop to punk to Nuyorican folk-poetry) while carving out a truer artistic self. Their new album, The Past Is Still Alive,...

Hurray for the Riff Raff released single “Hawkmoon,” the last preview of their forthcoming album The Past Is Still Alive, due Feb 23.

The new track is described as a “rebellious road song and stirring remembrance of the first trans woman that Alynda Segarra ever met,” according to a press release, and arrives alongside by a music video complete with bank robberies, middle-of-nowhere diner, motel room, and outlaws on the run in New Mexico.

“‘Hawkmoon’ is a song about running away — a trans song, and memories of the first trans woman I ever met.

“Alibi,” the opening track of Hurray for the Riff Raff’s The Past Is Still Alive, embraces the sense of invincibility that comes from facing down the very worst that life can throw at you. “You don’t have to die if you don’t wanna die/You can take it all back in the nick of time,” Alynda Segarra sings. The arrangement, featuring organ and bursts of tambourine, imbues the song with a sense of resilience and liberation—a relentlessly forward-moving spirit that recalls the music of Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, and Waxahatchee.

The rest of The Past Is Still Alive is likewise informed by recollections of both a friend’s addiction and the passing of Segarra’s father, charting a determined, if sometimes uneasy, journey to make peace with uncomfortable truths. “Snake Plant” alternates between pleasantly mundane memories to direct addresses to a friend battling addiction (“I know...

John Cameron Mitchell has teamed up with Alynda Segarra (Hurray for the Riff Raff) for a new single, “American Sickness.”

The two singer-songwriters co-wrote the song, which touches on the state of the country in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, and they perform it in a surreal music video that Mitchell directed with animator Nathan Stassin.

“I can’t believe I got to co-write with Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff, who is my Springsteen, Chrissie Hynde, and Patti Smith all rolled into one,” Mitchell said in a statement.

John Cameron Mitchell has released “New American Dream,” the wacky title track to his new benefit album out on Friday.

Directed by Matthew Zanfagna, the video opens with Mitchell laying on the grass swaddled in an American flag. Later, hilarious animation shows Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell eating President Trump. “Thus the diseased body will pass/through Mitch’s gut,” Mitchell sings. “And resolve itself into a stew/a kind of vile fondue.”

Mitchell recorded New American Dream during lockdown. More than 40 collaborators contributed to the record, including Leland, Hedwig...

“I don’t want to keep downcutting myself,” says Azniv Korkejian, “but to be honest, I have no idea what I’m doing.”

Korkejian, who records and writes songs as Bedouine, is currently talking about playing the guitar — “I’m always just winging it” — but the Los Angeles-based folk musician may as well be describing her complicated feelings about being an artist at all.

That word — artist — is one that Korkejian says she’s struggled to feel like she fully embodies in recent years, even after releasing her self-titled debut,...

While in town to perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival at the end of April, Steve Earle joined Preservation Hall Jazz Band for an intimate late-night gig at the group’s namesake venue in the French Quarter for one of their annual Midnight Preserves shows. In a new video, the performers collaborate on a swinging version of “T’Aint Nobody’s Business,” a blues standard that’s been cut by Billie Holiday, B.B. King and Hank Williams, Jr.

While Earle heartily strums his acoustic guitar, he blends...

Produced by Jesuit Refugee Service/USA (Jrs/USA), in partnership with Unhcr, the Un Refugee Agency, Lampedusa: Concerts for Refugees is raising awareness and money to support expanded educational opportunities for displaced people through Jrs’s Global Education Initiative.

Funds raised from the tour help refugees heal, learn, and thrive.

Performing this year are Joan Baez, Brandi Carlile, Lila Downs, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Dave Matthews, James McMurtry, Buddy Miller, Alynda Segarra, and Lucinda Williams – all Grammy winners and Grammy nominated artists who are donating their talents this October in eight cities for Lampedusa: Concerts for Refugees.

“I believe that education is the key to everything,” remarked Emmylou Harris following her visit last year to Ethiopia to visit Jrs programs there. Harris visited one of many education programs Jrs provides, including primary, secondary, and vocational livelihoods training, in 42 countries around the world.

The Lampedusa 2017 tour will reach eight markets:

Oct 3:

Seattle,...

Jrs/USA is thrilled to announce its 2017 Lampedusa: Concerts for Refugees Tour.

Lampedusa 2017

The tour will travel from Seattle to Dallas October 3-15 and will feature renowned singer-songwriters Joan Baez, Lila Downs, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, The Mastersons, Dave Matthews, Buddy Miller, Alynda Segarra, Lucinda Williams, and special guests.

Produced by Jrs /USA, in partnership with Unhcr, the Un Refugee Agency (as part of #WithRefugees), the concerts are intimate evenings of acoustic performances to raise awareness and money to support expanded educational opportunities for displaced people through Jesuit Refugee Service’s Global Education Initiative. Funds raised from the tour help refugees to heal, learn, and thrive.

2017 Concert Tour:

October 3 – Seattle, Wa: Moore Theater – Featuring Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Dave Matthews, and special guests.

October 4 – Portland, Or: Aladdin Theatre – Featuring Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Dave Matthews, and speical guests.

October 8 – San Francisco, CA: Stay tuned for details

October 10 – Los Angeles,...

Cinemax's new retro crime series Quarry is based on a series of pulp stories by Max Allan Collins, an award-winning mystery novelist and comic-book writer best-known for Road to Perdition and the detective Ms. Tree. In 1976, Collins created the character of an ex-Marine sniper who becomes a hired killer; and since then the author has penned over a dozen books about his anonymous assassin, codenamed "Quarry."

In the Cinemax show, the character has a name, Mac Conway, and he's played by Logan Marshall-Green as a thorny loner, who feels alienated...