David Dean Burkhart, a fan of Ra Ra Riot, recently made his own video for “Beta Love,” the dance-poppy title track from the band’s new album, by editing together footage from a local 1980s Bay Area UHF show called Dance Party. The band liked his work enough to make it the official video, and I’m [...]

We’ve slowly been getting tracks from the new Ra Ra Riot LP, Beta Love, and now the band has made the whole thing available to stream, in advance of its release next week. It’s the band’s first release minus cellist Alexandra Lawn, and as a result, the material is much synthier than past RRR albums. [...]

Later this month, Syracuse-spawned indie-poppers Ra Ra Riot will release their new LP Beta Love. It’s their third album but their first as a quartet, with cellist Alexandra Lawn out of the fold. We’ve already heard the title track and “When I Dream,” and now we’ve got a stream of the album opener...

Ra Ra Riot’s Beta Love is out next month. They’re a four-piece now, and the loss of Alexandra Lawn’s cello has ushered in an apparently synthier sound. We’ve heard the buoyant title track, and today it is the more minimal, tensely soulful “When I Dream.” Stream it below. Beta Love is ou...

Brooklyn-via-Syracuse indie-poppers Ra Ra Riot are set to release their third album — and first since parting ways with cellist Alexandra Lawn — next year, and they’re building anticipation starting today with the release of the album’s first single/title track. “Beta Love” is a pure-po...