Wes Miles, the leader of the indie rock band Ra Ra Riot, remembers how much fun he had staying home from school because it afforded him the opportunity to watch science-fiction movies. He would watch ...

“Craftsmanship has this ingrained sense of quality,” says Milo Bonacci, Ra Ra Riot’s founder and lead guitarist. “It implies that you love what you do…and you care about making some sort of connection ...

After five years, indie-rock band Ra Ra Riot have released a new single, “The Wish,” co-written and produced by Rostam Batmanglij. Ra Ra Riot is renowned for both their cultivation of live music ...

The single was co-written and produced by their friend and longtime collaborator Rostam Batmanglij (Remi Wolf, Carly Rae Jepsen, HAIM), mixed by Andrew Maury (Madi Diaz, Tegan and Sara, Shawn Mendes), ...

Fusing cellos with keyboards and big vocal hooks, melodic chamber pop sextet Ra Ra Riot have long been compared to contemporaries like Vampire Weekend and Death Cab for Cutie. It's a fair assessment; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...