New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Hurray for the
Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) announces twenty-three new US tour dates, supporting Bright Eyes, beginning May 19, 2022 in Oklahoma City and continuing through July 3 in Omaha. Segarra (she/they) is currently on a North American headlining tour in celebration of LIFE ON EARTH, their Nonesuch Records debut. Summer dates in
Europe begin July 16 in the UK and continue through
September 20 in Berlin, with stops in Dublin, London, Paris, and Amsterdam, among others (full schedule below).
Life on Earth is a departure for the New Orleans-based Segarra. Its eleven new "nature punk" tracks on the theme of survival are music for a world in flux—songs about thriving, not just surviving, while disaster is happening. For their eighth full-length album, Segarra drew inspiration from The Clash, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Bad Bunny, and the author of Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown. Recorded during the pandemic, Life on Earth was produced by Brad Cook (Waxahatchee, Bon Iver,
Kevin Morby).
Life on Earth has received critical praise, appearing on most anticipated records of 2022 lists by NPR, Pitchfork, the Guardian, Stereogum, the Observer, Vulture, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, the Evening Standard, and the Irish Times, among others. The Guardian says, "What's most impressive about Life on Earth is the way Segarra metabolises bleak and disturbing subjects into songs that brim with hope, beauty and cheer," while the Observer says, "Hurray for the
Riff Raff promises a manual for Life on Earth, a 'nature punk' album for tough times," and NPR's Ann Powers says, "If you need some music to take you forward in this strange winter, I think Life on Earth is gonna do it for you." Mojo, in its four-star review, calls it "a remarkably delicate, tender record full of gentle empathy, of lines that ring with the truth of shared experience. Hurray for The
Riff Raff might not be able to save the world, but Life on Earth is a compassionate, humane record at a time when it can only be a gift."
Alynda Segarra was born and raised in the Bronx, which they left at age seventeen, running away from everything and everyone they knew, hopping freight trains or hitchhiking across the country in the company of a band of street urchins. Segarra moved to New Orleans in 2007 and formed two bands: Dead Man's Street Orchestra and Hurray for the Riff Raff. In 2015, Segarra decamped to Nashville, then to New York, to make 2017's critically praised The Navigator, an ambitious and fully realized concept album that was her quest to reclaim her Puerto Rican identity. Segarra's previous records as Hurray for the
Riff Raff are Crossing the
Rubicon (EP, 2007), It Don't Mean I Don't Love You (2008), Young Blood Blues (2010), Hurray for the
Riff Raff (2011), Look Out Mama (2012), My Dearest Darkest Neighbor (2013), and Small Town Heroes (2014).
HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF ON TOUR WITH BRIGHT EYES:
May 19 Jones Assembly Oklahoma City, OK
May 20 The Factory in Deep Ellum Dallas, TX
May 21 ACL Live at the Moody Austin, TX
May 22 The Lawn at White Oak
Music Hall Houston, TX
May 23 Orpheum Theatre New Orleans, LA
May 25 Charleston
Music Hall Charleston, SC
May 26 Hard Rock Live Orlando, FL
May 27 Fillmore Miami Beach Miami, FL
May 28 St. Augustine Amphitheater St. Augustine, FL
May 29 The Eastern Atlanta, GA
May 31 The Fillmore Charlotte, NC
Jun 15 Knitting Factory Boise, ID
Jun 16 Knitting Factory Spokane, WA
Jun 17 Paramount Theatre Seattle, WA
Jun 18 McMenamin's Edgefield Amphitheater Troutdale, OR
Jun 20 The Masonic San Francisco, CA
Jun 24 SOMA San Diego, CA
Jun 25 Van Buren Phoenix, AZ
Jun 28 The Union Salt Lake City, UT
Jun 30 Mission Ballroom Denver, CO
Jul 1 Uptown Theater Kansas City, MO
Jul 2&3 The Admiral Theatre Omaha, NE
HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF ON TOUR:
Mar 29 Independent San Francisco, CA
Mar 31 Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR
Apr 1 Tractor Tavern (Sold Out) Seattle, WA
Apr 2 Rickshaw Theater Vancouver, BC
Apr 5 Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, UT
Apr 6 Bluebird Theater Denver, CO
Apr 8 Fine Line
Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
Apr 9 Thalia Hall Chicago, IL
Apr 10 Skully's
Music Diner Columbus, OH
Apr 11 Horseshoe Tavern Toronto, ON
Apr 13 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA
Apr 15 Elsewhere Brooklyn, NY
Apr 16 Underground Arts Philadelphia, PA
Apr 17 Union Stage Washington, DC
Apr 18 Motorco
Music Hall Raleigh, NC
Apr 20 Basement East Nashville, TN
May 7 New Orleans Jazz Fest New Orleans, LA
Jul 16 Lemon Tree Aberdeen, UK
Jul 17 Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival Port of Menteith, UK
Jul 19 The Cluny Newcastle, UK
Jul 20 Barrow Library Barrow in Furness, UK
Jul 21 Trades Club Hebden Bridge, UK
Jul 22 The Bulingdon Oxford, UK
Jul 21-24 Latitude Festival Suffolk, UK
Jul 27 The Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth, UK
Jul 28 Phoenix Exeter, UK
Jul 28-31 Cambridge Folk Festival Cambridge, UK
Aug 26-29 Greenbelt Festival Kettering, UK
Aug 31 Whelan's Dublin, IRELAND
Sep 2 St Luke's Glasgow, UK
Sep 3 Brudenell Social Club Leeds, UK
Sep 4 End of the Road Festival Salisbury, UK
Sep 5 Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff, UK
Sep 7 YES Manchester, UK
Sep 8 Hare & Hounds Birmingham, UK
Sep 9 Lafayette London, UK
Sep 10 CHALK Brighton, UK
Sep 12 Point Éphémère Paris, FRANCE
Sep 14 Bogen F Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Sep 16 Botanique Brussels, BELGIUM
Sep 17 Tolhuistuin Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Sep 19 Jaki Cologne, GERMANY
Sep 20 Hole 44 Berlin, GERMANY.
