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  Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars Make Arts & Crafts 10th Anniversary Compilation

  April 30, 2013 – Canadian boutique label Arts & Crafts turns 10 this year, and to celebrate, the indie-pop curators are planning a compilation album featuring new collaborations from acts on the A&C roster. The collection, titled Arts & Crafts: X, will be released in CD, digital, and vinyl formats on May 28. …
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  Ra Ra Riot, 'Beta Love' (Barsuk)

  January 25, 2013 – Was it necessary to hit the panic button so soon? On their captivating 2008 debut The Rhumb Line and 2010's milder The Orchard, the Syracuse, New York-spawned Ra Ra Riot crafted nimble chamber pop with the soaring energy of a rousing stadium anthem, minus the thudding insistence. But apparently, finesse doesn't matter now. Whether they're impatient for the mass audience of a bigger, louder band like fun. …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Ra Ra Riot, Tomahawk, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and More

  January 23, 2013 – Another week means another batch of ready-to-stream records. Plug in your headphones and tune out with these 10.1) Tomahawk, Oddfellows. "Oddfellowsis full of dusty Morricone metal, minor-key creep-rock, moonlight tumbleweed swing, Lynchian cabaret doom, whip cracks, and lead belter Patton hitting his hugest, most anthemic melodies since Faith No More's swan song, Album of the Year." (via SPIN)2) Oliver, Mechanical EP. …
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  Ra Ra Riot Blow Up Their Signature Sound on 'Beta Love'

  January 15, 2013 – For Ra Ra Riot, making Beta Love, their third album, was something akin to exposure treatment. …
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  Ra Ra Riot Beg to 'Dance With Me' on Bouncy Rebound Song

  January 7, 2013 – Ra Ra Riot have been doling out samples of their upcoming third album, Beta Love (due January 22 from Barsuk), for the past few months. …
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  Hear Ra Ra Riot's Soulful, Love-Spurned 'When I Dream'

  December 13, 2012 – Ra Ra Riot shared the synthy title track off their upcoming third album, Beta Love (out January 22 via Barsuk) last month, and then debuted a few more new songs at alma mater Syracuse University. Now comes "When I Dream," a decidely downbeat cut off the follow-up to 2010's The Orchard, which relies less on dance-pop and more on lead singer Wes Miles' soulful vocals. "When I dream, it's not of you," he reveals with a hint  …
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  Ra Ra Riot Bring New 'Beta Love' Tracks Back to School

  November 27, 2012 – Ra Ra Riot returned to upstate New York's Syracuse University (where they first formed in 2006) earlier this month to teach classes and play a sold-out show, Billboard reports. The group is currently at work on Beta Love, the follow-up to 2010's The Orchard, and showcased four of the LP's new songs at the school's 660-capacity Setnor Auditorium. …
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  Ra Ra Riot's Dancey 'Beta Love' Swaps Strings for Synths, Reinvents Band

  November 13, 2012 – Ra Ra Riot reinvent themselves with their new single, "Beta Love," whose dance-pop bent is fueled by the egress of cellist Alexandra Lawn. The freshly pared down four-piece swaps its heady strings for corporeal synth, positioning the Syracuse crew for commercial breakthrough once again. …
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  Ra Ra Riot Shake Things Up On New Album

  May 3, 2012 – Even during the raucous college-party days of their birth in 2006 in Syracuse, New York, Ra Ra Riot has always folded heartrending strings and yearning new-wave vocals into their restless indie-pop symphonies. Similarly, the now Brooklyn-based quintet has had more than its fair share of ecstasy and tragedy. …
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  See Ra Ra Riot Perform 'Boy' in the Moog Sound Lab

  January 3, 2012 – You've seen Little Dragon, Twin Shadow, and the Antlers reinvent tunes in the Moog Sound Lab — the spot in Asheville, North Carolina devoted to celebrating the electronic musical innovations of Bob Moog — and today SPIN presents Ra Ra Riot's contribution to the cause, a Moog-ed up rendition of "Boy" from 2010's The Orchard. …
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