It's been a rough but rewarding road for the Syracuse, N.Y., band Ra Ra Riot: In the two years since it formed, the group has endured a grueling tour schedule, inflated expectations from critics and ...

Jimmy Eat World released their best album in a long time, Integrity Blues, in 2016, and they’re hitting the road starting in June to celebrate their twenty-fifth summer as a band. They’ll be joined on ...

Just two years ago, the band Ra Ra Riot was a group of six friends from Syracuse University with a fondness for melancholy pop and string sections. Today, Ra Ra Riot is something unusual: a young band ...

Ra Ra Riot gets a brief break this weekend from their ongoing tour with California rock band Young the Giant. They could have taken that time to relax, but instead they're coming to Spokane. And ...

Pretty much everything you can read on the Interweb about Syracuse, N.Y., band Ra Ra Riot begins with a tragic story: In 2007, after playing a show in Providence, R.I., Ra Ra Riot drummer and lyricist ...

With irresistible hooks and alluring strings, New York chamber rockers Ra Ra Riot are more likely to incite a gyrating flash mob than disorderly conduct. Their sophomore album, “The Orchard,” prompted ...

Ra Ra Riot brought some new tricks to their baroque pop sound at Upstate Concert Hall on Tuesday night. Earlier this year, the Syracuse indie rockers’ founding cellist, Alexandra Lawn — a key ...

Ra Ra Riot formed as a college rock band at Syracuse University 10 years ago with the modest goal of playing some house parties around campus. But when their baroque rock sound and feisty live shows ...

Syracuse, N.Y., band Ra Ra Riot borrowed elements from the Cure, the Smiths and New Order — though much less morose — and molded them into a string-filled sound that embodied indie rock at its best.

Nineteen years ago, Alexandra Lawn started playing the cello because she attended Montessori school, and every child—in the name of fostering one's creativity—was ...

Download the fizzily catchy title track from Ra Ra Riot's new album, which comes out Jan. 22, 2013. "Beta Love" is the sound of a band that's left... Song Premiere: Ra Ra Riot, 'Beta Love' Ra Ra Riot ...