#Hurray for The Riff Raff

[musicforants]

Autumn has certainly been leisurely in its arrival this year, at least in my central TX backdrop, but this week brought some slightly cooler temperatures and it’s starting to feel like like Fall is finally here. As usual, to go along with the colorful foliage, warm fashions and seasonal beverages, I have a new Autumn mixtape to help evoke the wistful, carefree feelings of the season. Click here to listen to this mix in its entirety via Spotify or Apple Music. Enjoy!

Faye Webster - Thinking About You

Dipsea Flower - Burnouts

MJ Lenderman - You Don't Know the Shape I'm In

Clairo - Nomad

Mitch Rowland - Here Comes The Comeback

Haley Heynderickx - Foxglove

Gigi Perez - Sailor Song

Waxahatchee - Lone Star Lake

Babehoven - Birdseye

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Alibi

Cassandra Jenkins - Devotion

Wild Pink - Disintegrate

Florist - This Was a Gift

Caoilfhionn Rose - Fall Into Place

Bon Iver - THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS

Medium Build & Julien Baker - Yoke

hemlock - Hyde Park

Zach Bryan - This World's A Giant

Adrianne Lenker - Sadness as a Gift

Slowdive - kisses (sky ii)

Beetlebug - equinox

Runner - Untitled October Song

Jensen McRae - Massachusetts

Laura Marling - Caroline

Kacey Musgraves - Too Good to be True

Hovvdy - Jean (Julie's Version)

Caroline Says - Palm Reader

James Vincent McMorrow - Meet me in the garden (alt. version)

Katie Gavin - As Good As It Gets (ft. Mitski)

Granddaddy - Cabin in My Mind

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[camojacketfag]

a loaded gun lost in an ocean of regret…

[drumdrumler]

Kokoryn "Alynda Segarra - hurray for the Riff Raff"

[bttrflyblu]

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Buffalo (Official Video)

[gonz-iranzo]

we drove out to the desert just to leave the past behind

[heard-this-song-thought-of-you]

you don't have to die if you don't want to die you could take it all back in the nick of time

[fangomusic]

Whenever people say: “Music isn’t the same as what it used to be” or “New music sucks”. I say: “Oh, really?”

Arlo Parks, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Nilüfer Yanya, Waxahatchee, Clairo, Sudan Archives, Helena Deland, Aldous Harding, and Arooj Aftab.

[nonesuchrecords]

Among the 70 Best Alt-Country Albums of All Time per Paste magazine are Hurray for the Riff Raff’s LIFE ON EARTH, Yola’s Walk Through Fire, Rhiannon Giddens’ Freedom Highway, k.d. lang’s Ingénue, Billy Bragg & Wilco's Mermaid Avenue, Carolina Chocolate Drops' Genuine Negro Jig, Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball, and Wilco's Being There. You can see the full list here.

[femaleunbonding]

friday chart 12/20

[jennpelly]

Hard to overstate my love for the new Hurray for the Riff Raff album "The Past Is Still Alive" and in the spirit of the title phrase I've been in a HFTRR YouTube-archive rabbit hole that I hope never ends

[krispyweiss]

Norah Jones, Hurray for the Riff Raff to Kick off Back Half of “ACL” 50

Norah Jones and Hurray for the Riff Raff will split the first hour of the second half of “Austin City Limits’” 50th season.

America’s longest-running music program returns to PBS stations Jan. 11, 2025, with highlights from Jones and HFRR’s 2024 appearances. Jones’ “Running,” an unremarkable pop song from Visions, previews the broadcast.

The season’s back half runs through Feb. 15, culminating with Willie Nelson, “ACL”’s first performer, making his 18th appearance.

In between, the Avett Brothers (Jan. 18); Mickey Guyton and Carín León (Jan. 25); Chris Stapleton (Feb. 1); and Sturgill Simpson (Feb. 8) will appear.

A 50th-anniversary program is slated for April 4.

Check local listings.

12/20/24

[camojacketfag]

Collecting items of the past in hopes of connecting with a father I desperately long for. Somehow, my room is coming together, slowly but surely.

[bi-furiosity]

Don't become an angel with a broken wing We need you back down here on earth Nothing is as painful as birth Time flies when you're getting old I was born with a baby boy soul Maybe someday I'll see you again In a field, a war, a kingdom of sand

Snake Plant (The Past is Still Alive) by Hurray for the Riff Raff (alt ID: youtube link)

[hubcaphalo]

Favorite Albums of 2024:

Here we go: favorite albums of the year. I like to make my lists every year and these? Are just my favorites. Are they the best albums of the year? Who the fuck knows. Maybe some are, some aren’t. I make these lists for myself, because I like to go back and revisit these, but if you listen and find something here you like, that’s awesome!

favorite albums of 2024, in alphabetical order:

Dagny - ELLE (listen: In My Bones, Strawberry Dream)

Dawn Richard, Spencer Zahn - Quiet in a World Full of Noise (listen: Quiet in a World Full of Noise, Breath Out)

Dehd - Poetry (listen: Hard to Love, Mood Ring)

Empress Of - For Your Consideration (listen: Femenine, Kiss Me)

FLETCHER - In Search of the Antidote (listen: Attached to You, Crush)

Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past is Still Alive (listen: Alibi, Hourglass)

Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol (listen: Upon Sober Reflection, Fugitive Summer)

Joy Oladokun - Observations from a Crowded Room (listen: Good Enough, Drugs)

Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well (listen: Jade Green, Sway)

Kaleida - In Arms (listen: Choices, Kilda)

Kenya Vaun - The Honeymoon Phase (listen: Yesterday, Overrated)

Lizzie No - Halfsies (listen: Halfsies, Annie Oakley)

Moses Sumney - Sophcore (listen: Vintage, Love's Refrain)

Orville Peck - Stampede (listen: How Far Will We Take It?, Chemical Sunset)

Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me (listen: Street Fighter, The Tower)

Raveena - Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain (listen: Lose My Focus, We Should Move Somewhere Beautiful)

Rei Brown - Aura (listen: Get Me Out, Fire)

Reyna Tropical - Malegria (listen: Cartagena, Lo Siento)

somesurprises - Perseids (listen: Be Reasonable, Dark Victory)

TezaTalks - Black Girl American Horror Story (listen: STOPIT!!, Oxygen, Cops)

Honourable Mentions:

Fleet Foxes - Live on Boston Harbor I don't put live albums on the EOY list, but this is an excellent listen--you can also watch it on youtube. Robin is in peak banter form. (listen: Ragged Wood)

Various Artists - American Football (Covers) The classic American Football record is so iconic, and so gorgeous, of course a record full of covers from other brilliant musicians is gonna slap. (listen: Ethel Cain - For Sure)

Usher - Coming Home It didn't need to be a double album! The first half is perfect! The second half has some decent songs, but it is definitely weaker. (listen: Kissing Strangers "how'd we go from strangers kissing to kissing strangers"? LAWD shot to the heart)

[slackwire]

Song of the Week 12/06/2024

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Alibi

It's Listmas season, and this was my favorite song of the year.

I love you very much, and all that other stuff...

[soundgrammar]

Listen/purchase: Hawkmoon by Hurray For The Riff Raff