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News Articles: Hurray For The Riff Raff

<em>The Past Is Still Alive</em> is Alynda Segarra's latest and perhaps most autobiographical album as Hurray for the Riff Raff.

Hurray for the Riff Raff, the rail-riding teen poet who lived to sing the tale

On The Past Is Still Alive, Alynda Segarra's latest album as Hurray for the Riff Raff, the shapeshifting folk artist dives into deeply personal stories from their own vagabond youth.

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  • Phil Harrell and
  • Steve Inskeep
Hurray for the Riff Raff's Alynda Segarra captures a complicated reality on their new song, "Colossus of Roads."

8 Tracks: Hurray for the Riff Raff's twang is heart full, but heartbroken

Alynda Segarra examines our frailty and resilience with an unsparing, yet tender cadence. This week on 8 Tracks, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich looks at lyrics that stand on their own as poetry.

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  • Lars Gotrich
Stromae's <em>Multitude</em> is one of Ann Powers' favorite albums of 2022.

Ann Powers' Top 20 Albums Of 2022

NPR's pop critic and correspondent shares her favorite albums of this year.

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  • Ann Powers
<strong></strong>"What <em>Emergent Strategy</em> taught me is this emphasis on relationship," Hurray for the Riff Raff's Alynda Segarra tells the book's author, adrienne maree brown.

Hurray for the Riff Raff's Alynda Segarra, a 'recovering lone wolf,' in conversation

NPR Music's Ann Powers moderates the first-time meeting of far-flung soulmates. Hurray for the Riff Raff's new album was inspired, in part, by adrienne maree brown's book Emergent Strategy.

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  • Ann Powers
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The new Hurray for the Riff Raff album, 'Life on Earth,' is out Friday

Alynda Segarra is one of the most adventurous spirits to ever come out of the Americana music scene. Segarra is better known as Hurray for the Riff Raff.

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  • Ann Powers