Hurray For The Riff Raff – Bandwidth http://bandwidth.wamu.org WAMU 88.5's New Music Site Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:23:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 KEXP Presents: Hurray For The Riff Raff http://bandwidth.wamu.org/kexp-presents-hurray-for-the-riff-raff/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/kexp-presents-hurray-for-the-riff-raff/#respond Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:08:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=35029 The dark Americana band Hurray for the Riff Raff is led by Alynda Lee Segarra, a young, Bronx-raised Puerto Rican who developed her musical voice by riding the rails as a teenage punk before settling down in New Orleans. (The Crescent City serves as inspiration for the band’s sixth and most recent album, Small Town Heroes.)

With inspirations that range from Woody Guthrie to Bikini Kill, Segarra brings real worldliness to these songs; it shouldn’t be long before everybody knows her name. Watch Hurray for the Riff Raff perform the somber “Everybody Knows” in the KEXP studios.

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]]> http://bandwidth.wamu.org/kexp-presents-hurray-for-the-riff-raff/feed/ 0 Hurray For The Riff Raff On World Cafe http://bandwidth.wamu.org/hurray-for-the-riff-raff-on-world-cafe/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/hurray-for-the-riff-raff-on-world-cafe/#respond Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:00:00 +0000 http://bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=24283 Even before our Sense of Place visit to New Orleans, we had been hearing about the band Hurray for the Riff Raff, led by Alynda Lee Segara. The band rose from the streets of the French Quarter, where Alynda really learned how to be a musician. She is originally from the Bronx and left home to ride the rails all over the country before landing in New Orleans. Now, Hurray for the Riff Raff has just released their debut album for ATO Records called Small Town Heroes, and Alynda has developed into a great songwriter.

So, who are the riff raff? According to Alynda, “The more we play and the more we tour, the riff raff is turning into anybody who feels a little bit like an outsider or an underdog.”

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