Ra Ra Riot
Orchard

But wait…that rhythm line. I swear I’ve heard it somewhere before. Oh, that’s right: Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Are you a Ra Ra Riot fa...

Syracuse’s chamber outfit returns with ten beautiful, dynamic songs that emphasize the pop side of indie-pop. Conceived at a farm house in an orchard ...

As a huge fan of The Rhumb Line, Ra Ra Riot's debut long-player, I'm left cold by The Orchard. It's not a bad album at all, but much of the insoucianc...

There's something definitively '80s about Ra Ra Riot. Upon first listen, it seems as though it may be the singing of Wes Miles, with his airy, ecstati...

Syracuse, N.Y.-based rock act Ra Ra Riot has been tiptoeing around the cusp of major fame since the release of its 2008 debut, "The Rhumb Line." The q...

Two years after the modest success of The Rhumb Line, these Ithaca-based college chums have returned with a sleeker, more cerebral album that speaks t...

I don’t know about you, but it seems that music is getting more and more eclectic… and when I say “eclectic,” I mean “selecting or choosing from vario...

Start at the beginning and let it play all the way through: The Orchard gives us an achingly mature version of a band yet to fail. Wes Miles sings his...

Chamber pop consortium Ra Ra Riot's debut, The Rhumb Line, slyly counterbalanced playfulness and austerity, swathing indelible hooks in orchestral arr...

Ra Ra Riot have gotten pretty damn far on an admittedlysmall base of songs. Unlike theirBritish peers Los Campesinos! (QRO spotlight on), who have be...