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Hurray for the Riff Raff, just before the one-year anniversary of their acclaimed album The Past Is Still Alive, has shared their first new single and music video of 2025, “Pyramid Scheme.” The song embodies that record’s spirit of resilience and rebellion, with lyrical nods to Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane, Darby Crash, and Frida Kahlo. You can watch the video, animated by Jayla Kai Smith, here. Hurray for the Riff Raff has also announced dozens of spring/summer US tour dates.
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Hurray for the Riff Raff has shared their first new single and music video of 2025, along with the announcement of dozens of US tour dates for spring and summer. Arriving just before the one-year anniversary of bandleader Alynda Segarra’s memoiristic opus The Past Is Still Alive—which appeared on numerous outlets’ Best of 2024 lists, including the New York Times, The Atlantic, Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly, Slate, NPR Music, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Billboard, OUT, PAPER, Garden & Gun, Bitter Southerner, Paste, Stereogum, Mojo, Uncut, and more—“Pyramid Scheme” embodies that record’s spirit of resilience and rebellion. Filled with poetic prowess and personal truths, the song conveys a contempt for the dark side of the Internet and the alienating, undermining effects it has on artists and outsiders. “And you can paint your portal on the wall with the intention to break through,” sings Alynda Segarra (they/them). “But every time you bang your head against it, tiny little pieces fall out of you.” You can hear the song here and watch the video, animated by Jayla Kai Smith, below:
Lyrical nods to Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane, Darby Crash, and Frida Kahlo (in a black ski mask) are wrapped in melodies and arrangements that are equal parts scrappy and saccharine, backed by Phil Cook on organ, Yan Westerlund on drums, Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy on electric guitar, and The Past Is Still Alive producer Brad Cook on bass.
This spring and summer, Hurray for the Riff Raff headlines sixteen newly added US tour dates, including numerous shows across the West Coast, East Coast, and Midwest. The shows feature support from Merce Lemon, and will follow an extensive run with Bright Eyes that begins next week, in addition to dates with Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman, festivals, and more.
Pre-sales for Hurray for the Riff Raff’s newly added 2025 tour dates begin today at 11am local time (password: pyramidscheme), followed by the public on-sale at 10am local time tomorrow, February 21. Find tickets and information below and at nonesuch.com/on-tour.
Hurray for the Riff Raff began 2025 with performances on Season 50 of PBS’ Austin City Limits and, most recently, Jimmy Kimmel Live!. In an exhilarating three and a half minutes, Alynda Segarra tore through a saxophone-studded rendition of “Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive),” declared “there’s a war on the people," and told their life story of leaving home, losing loved ones, hopping trains, shoplifting for food, lighting campfires on superfund sites, and playing music with a barrel of freaks. Watch the Jimmy Kimmel Live! performance here:
Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra is also serving as a judge for NPR Music’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest, and is publishing new writing, notes from the road, current obsessions, cover songs, demo recordings, direct reflections, and other real, honest musings every week on Resist Psychic Death. Subscribe to the publication via Substack.
Watch: Hurray for the Riff Raff Shares First New Single, Music Video of 2025: “Pyramid Scheme”; Announces US Tour Dates
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Hurray for the Riff Raff has shared their first new single and music video of 2025, along with the announcement of dozens of US tour dates for spring and summer. Arriving just before the one-year anniversary of bandleader Alynda Segarra’s memoiristic opus The Past Is Still Alive—which appeared on numerous outlets’ Best of 2024 lists, including the New York Times, The Atlantic, Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly, Slate, NPR Music, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Billboard, OUT, PAPER, Garden & Gun, Bitter Southerner, Paste, Stereogum, Mojo, Uncut, and more—“Pyramid Scheme” embodies that record’s spirit of resilience and rebellion. Filled with poetic prowess and personal truths, the song conveys a contempt for the dark side of the Internet and the alienating, undermining effects it has on artists and outsiders. “And you can paint your portal on the wall with the intention to break through,” sings Alynda Segarra (they/them). “But every time you bang your head against it, tiny little pieces fall out of you.” You can hear the song here and watch the video, animated by Jayla Kai Smith, below:
Lyrical nods to Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane, Darby Crash, and Frida Kahlo (in a black ski mask) are wrapped in melodies and arrangements that are equal parts scrappy and saccharine, backed by Phil Cook on organ, Yan Westerlund on drums, Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy on electric guitar, and The Past Is Still Alive producer Brad Cook on bass.
This spring and summer, Hurray for the Riff Raff headlines sixteen newly added US tour dates, including numerous shows across the West Coast, East Coast, and Midwest. The shows feature support from Merce Lemon, and will follow an extensive run with Bright Eyes that begins next week, in addition to dates with Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman, festivals, and more.
Pre-sales for Hurray for the Riff Raff’s newly added 2025 tour dates begin today at 11am local time (password: pyramidscheme), followed by the public on-sale at 10am local time tomorrow, February 21. Find tickets and information below and at nonesuch.com/on-tour.
Hurray for the Riff Raff began 2025 with performances on Season 50 of PBS’ Austin City Limits and, most recently, Jimmy Kimmel Live!. In an exhilarating three and a half minutes, Alynda Segarra tore through a saxophone-studded rendition of “Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive),” declared “there’s a war on the people," and told their life story of leaving home, losing loved ones, hopping trains, shoplifting for food, lighting campfires on superfund sites, and playing music with a barrel of freaks. Watch the Jimmy Kimmel Live! performance here:
Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra is also serving as a judge for NPR Music’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest, and is publishing new writing, notes from the road, current obsessions, cover songs, demo recordings, direct reflections, and other real, honest musings every week on Resist Psychic Death. Subscribe to the publication via Substack.
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Watch: Hurray for the Riff Raff Shares First New Single, Music Video of 2025: “Pyramid Scheme”; Announces US Tour Dates
Hurray for the Riff Raff has shared their first new single and music video of 2025, along with the announcement of dozens of US tour dates for spring and summer. Arriving just before the one-year anniversary of bandleader Alynda Segarra’s memoiristic opus The Past Is Still Alive—which appeared on numerous outlets’ Best of 2024 lists, including the New York Times, The Atlantic, Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly, Slate, NPR Music, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Billboard, OUT, PAPER, Garden & Gun, Bitter Southerner, Paste, Stereogum, Mojo, Uncut, and more—“Pyramid Scheme” embodies that record’s spirit of resilience and rebellion. Filled with poetic prowess and personal truths, the song conveys a contempt for the dark side of the Internet and the alienating, undermining effects it has on artists and outsiders. “And you can paint your portal on the wall with the intention to break through,” sings Alynda Segarra (they/them). “But every time you bang your head against it, tiny little pieces fall out of you.” You can hear the song here and watch the video, animated by Jayla Kai Smith, below:
Lyrical nods to Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane, Darby Crash, and Frida Kahlo (in a black ski mask) are wrapped in melodies and arrangements that are equal parts scrappy and saccharine, backed by Phil Cook on organ, Yan Westerlund on drums, Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy on electric guitar, and The Past Is Still Alive producer Brad Cook on bass.
This spring and summer, Hurray for the Riff Raff headlines sixteen newly added US tour dates, including numerous shows across the West Coast, East Coast, and Midwest. The shows feature support from Merce Lemon, and will follow an extensive run with Bright Eyes that begins next week, in addition to dates with Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman, festivals, and more.
Pre-sales for Hurray for the Riff Raff’s newly added 2025 tour dates begin today at 11am local time (password: pyramidscheme), followed by the public on-sale at 10am local time tomorrow, February 21. Find tickets and information below and at nonesuch.com/on-tour.
Hurray for the Riff Raff began 2025 with performances on Season 50 of PBS’ Austin City Limits and, most recently, Jimmy Kimmel Live!. In an exhilarating three and a half minutes, Alynda Segarra tore through a saxophone-studded rendition of “Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive),” declared “there’s a war on the people," and told their life story of leaving home, losing loved ones, hopping trains, shoplifting for food, lighting campfires on superfund sites, and playing music with a barrel of freaks. Watch the Jimmy Kimmel Live! performance here:
Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra is also serving as a judge for NPR Music’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest, and is publishing new writing, notes from the road, current obsessions, cover songs, demo recordings, direct reflections, and other real, honest musings every week on Resist Psychic Death. Subscribe to the publication via Substack.
Composer/performer David Longstreth, whose new album with his band Dirty Projectors and the chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, Song of the Earth, is out April 4, stopped by for the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists visit the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. He chose recordings by David Byrne, Jonny Greenwood, Bulgarian State Television Female Choir, Caetano Veloso, Tyondai Braxton, Scritti Politti, and João Gilberto, and from the Nonesuch Explorer Series.
Emmylou Harris's groundbreaking 1995 album Wrecking Ball will be inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame at a special gala on May 16. Wrecking Ball was produced by Daniel Lanois and won the 1996 GRAMMY Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. "Music has the unique power to shape culture and mark moments in time," said Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason, Jr. "Each inducted recording reflects that spirit, and we’re excited to celebrate these impactful works, ensuring their legacies continue to inspire generations to come."
