Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) announces twenty-three new US tour dates, supporting Bright Eyes, beginning May 19, 2022 in Oklahoma City and continuing through July 3 in Omaha. Segarra (she/they) is currently on a North American headlining tour in celebration of LIFE ON EARTH, their Nonesuch Records debut. Summer dates in Europe begin July 16 in the UK and continue through September 20 in Berlin, with stops in Dublin, London, Paris, and Amsterdam, among others (full schedule below).
Life on Earth is a departure for the New Orleans-based Segarra. Its eleven new “nature punk” tracks on the theme of survival are music for a world in flux—songs about thriving, not just surviving, while disaster is happening. For their eighth full-length album, Segarra drew inspiration from The Clash, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Bad Bunny, and the author of Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown. Recorded during the pandemic, Life on Earth was produced by Brad Cook (Waxahatchee, Bon Iver, Kevin Morby).
Life on Earth has received critical praise, appearing on most anticipated records of 2022 lists by NPR, Pitchfork, the Guardian, Stereogum, the Observer,Vulture, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, the Evening Standard, and the Irish Times, among others. The Guardian says, “What’s most impressive about Life on Earth is the way Segarra metabolises bleak and disturbing subjects into songs that brim with hope, beauty and cheer,” while the Observer says, “Hurray for the Riff Raff promises a manual for Life on Earth, a ‘nature punk’ album for tough times,” and NPR’s Ann Powers says, “If you need some music to take you forward in this strange winter, I think Life on Earth is gonna do it for you.” Mojo, in its four-star review, calls it “a remarkably delicate, tender record full of gentle empathy, of lines that ring with the truth of shared experience. Hurray for The Riff Raff might not be able to save the world, but Life on Earth is a compassionate, humane record at a time when it can only be a gift.”
Alynda Segarra was born and raised in the Bronx, which they left at age seventeen, running away from everything and everyone they knew, hopping freight trains or hitchhiking across the country in the company of a band of street urchins. Segarra moved to New Orleans in 2007 and formed two bands: Dead Man’s Street Orchestra and Hurray for the Riff Raff. In 2015, Segarra decamped to Nashville, then to New York, to make 2017’s critically praised The Navigator, an ambitious and fully realized concept album that was her quest to reclaim her Puerto Rican identity. Segarra’s previous records as Hurray for the Riff Raff are Crossing the Rubicon (EP, 2007), It Don’t Mean I Don’t Love You (2008), Young Blood Blues (2010), Hurray for the Riff Raff (2011), Look Out Mama (2012),My Dearest Darkest Neighbor (2013), and Small Town Heroes (2014).
Hurray for the Riff Raff Tour
Tuesday, March 29 San Francisco, CA Independent
Thursday, March 31 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
Friday, April 1 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern
Saturday, April 2 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theater
Tuesday, April 5 Salt Lake City Urban Lounge
Wednesday, April 6 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
Friday, April 8 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line
Saturday, April 9 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall
Sunday, April 10 Columbus, OH Skully’s Music-Diner
Monday, April 11 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern
Wednesday, April 13 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club *
Friday, April 15 New York, NY Elsewhere *
Saturday, April 16 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts *
Sunday, April 17 Washington, DC Union Stage *
Monday, April 18 Durham, NC Motorco Music Hall
Wednesday, April 20 Nashville, TN Basement East
Saturday, May 7 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Saturday, May 14 Houston, TX We Are One Music Festival
Thursday, May 19 Oklahoma City, OK The Jones Assembly
Friday, May 20 The Factory in Deep Ellum Dallas, TX **
Saturday, May 21 ACL Live at Moody Theater Austin, TX **
Sunday, May 22 The Lawn at White Oak Music Hall Houston, TX **
Monday, May 23 Orpheum Theater New Orleans, LA **
Wednesday, May 25 Charleston Music Hall Charleston, SC **
Thursday, May 26 Hard Rock Live Orlando, FL **
Friday, May 27 Fillmore Miami Beach Miami, FL **
Saturday, May 28 St. Augustine Amphitheatre St Augustine, FL **
Sunday, May 29 The Eastern Atlanta, GA **
Tuesday, May 31 The Fillmore Charlotte Charlotte, NC **
Wednesday, June 15 Knitting Factory Boise, ID **
Thursday, June 16 Knitting Factory Spokane, WA **
Friday, June 17 Paramount Theatre Seattle, WA **
Saturday, June 18 McMenamin’s Edgefield Amphitheatre Troutdale, OR **
Monday, June 20 The Masonic San Francisco, CA **
Friday, June 24 Soma San Diego, CA **
Saturday, June 25 The Van Buren Phoenix, AZ **
Tuesday, June 28 The Union Salt Lake City, UT **
Thursday, June 30 Mission Ballroom Denver, CO **
Friday, July 1 Uptown Theater Kansas City, MO **
Saturday & Sunday, July 2 & 3 The Admiral Omaha, NE **
Saturday, July 16 Aberdeen, UK Lemon Tree
Sunday, July 17 Stirling, UK Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival
Tuesday, July19 Newcastle, UK The Cluny
Wednesday, July 20 Barrow in Furness, UK Barrow Library
Thursday, July 21 Hebden Bridge, UK Trades Club
Friday, July 22 Oxford, UK The Bullingdon
Wednesday, July 27 Portsmouth, UK The Wedgewood Rooms
Thursday, July 28 Exeter, UK Phoenix
Wednesday, August 31 Dublin, Ireland Whelan’s
Friday, September 2 Glasgow, UK St Luke’s
Saturday, September 3 Leeds, UK Brudenell Social Club
Sunday, September 4 Salisbury, UK End of the Road Festival
Monday, September 5 Cardiff, UK Clwb Ifor Bach
Wednesday, September 7 Manchester, UK YES
Thursday, September 8 Birmingham, UK Hare & Hounds
Friday, September 9 London, UK Lafayette
Saturday, September 10 Brighton, UK CHALK
Monday, September 12 Paris, France Point Éphémère
Wednesday, September 14 Zurich, Switzerland Bogen F
Friday, September 16 Brussels, Belgium Botanique
Saturday, September 17 Amsterdam, Netherlands Tolhuistuin
Monday, September 19 Cologne, Germany Jaki
Tuesday, September 20 Berlin, Germany Hole⁴⁴
**with Bright Eyes
