Ra Ra Riot have teamed up with Working Man Records to release limited cassettes of their albums The Orchard and The Rhumb Line. Each album is limited to 100 copies. Look out vinyl: tape players are staging a comeback.

Ra Ra Riot has announce a UK and European tour. Head to the replies for dates.

This Friday, March 4th, Ra Ra Riot will be on a new episode of "Hoppus on Music" at 11/10c on Fuse TV. Tune in to catch the band take the stage for a performance as well as sit down for a chat.

Gabe Duquette is parting ways with Ra Ra Riot.

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Head to the replies to watch Ra Ra Riot's performance on Letterman from earlier in the week.

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Ra Ra Riot will be on Letterman tomorrow night, December 7th.

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Ra Ra Riot will be releasing a 7" split with Stornoway. Only 1000 copies will be available.

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Ra Ra Riot's The Orchard is only 3.99 on amazon.

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Ra Ra Riot's new album The Orchard is streaming on NPR First Listen.

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Go here to watch Ra Ra Riot's video for their single "Boy" from their upcoming sophomore album, The Orchard.

Ra Ra Riot will kick off a tour at the end of the month in support of their upcoming album, The Orchard, which will be released on August 24th. Dates can be seen in the replies, along with a preview of their song "Too Dramatic."

Track List
01. The Orchard
02. Boy
03. Too Dramatic
04. Foolish
05. Massachusetts
06. You and I Know
07. Shadowcasting
08. Do You Remember
09. Kansai
10. Keep It Quiet

Ra Ra Riot will release The Orchard on August 24th through Barsuk Records. Album art and upcoming tour dates are in the replies.

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Ra Ra Riot will release The Orchard on August 24th via Barsuk Records.

Team Goldie has released a Ra Ra Riot remix.

Ra Ra Riot will tour with Maps & Atlases and Princeton in the fall. Dates are in the replies.

Discovery, the side project of Rostam of Vampire Weekend and Wes of Ra Ra Riot, will release their debut album LP on July 7th through XL Recordings. You can download their song "Orange Shirt" for free here. It also features guest vocals from Ezra of Vampire Weekend and Angel Deradoorian of Dirty Projectors.

Members of Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot have started a side project called Discovery.

Ra Ra Riot and Tonetiger have remixed two tracks on The Submarines' new EPs, Honeysuckle Weeks Remixes EP 1 and EP 2. You can download both tracks here and here.

If you missed Ra Ra Riot's live performance on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, you can now watch it here.

Head to the replies to watch Ra Ra Riot's video for "Can You Tell."

Death Cab for Cutie will be hitting the road this spring with Cold War Kids, Matt Costa, and Ra Ra Riot. Dates are in the replies.

Ra Ra Riot's album, The Rhumb Line, is on sale for $1.99 today on Amazon MP3. This album comes highly recommended by many staffers.

Listen to Ra Ra Riot on NPR right here.

Ra Ra Riot have recorded for a Daytrotter Session - grab the tunes here.

Check out our reviews for the day!

Staff Reviews (08/21/2008)

The Scenic - Find Yourself Here (Adrian Villagomez)
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line (Rich Duncan)
The Academy Is... - Fast Times at Barrington High (Julia Conny)
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The release for Ra Ra Riot's The Rhumb Line on orange vinyl is available for pre-order.

Ra Ra Riot has announced tour dates with Walter Meego and The Morning Benders for Sept. and Oct.

Tour Dates

Sept 3 TBA (Montreal, QC)
Sept 4 Horseshoe Tavern (Toronto, ON)
Sept 5 Mojo's (Jamestown, NY)
Sept 6 Bug Jar (Rochester, NY)
Sept 7...[read more]

Ra Ra Riot has signed with Barsuk Records.

The members of Ra Ra Riot, whose drummer John Pike was found dead on Sunday, have released a message about the tragedy:

Statement

We are all in a state of shock. Time has been dragging on slowly since the early hours of Saturday morning. This has been a difficult time filled with numbing sadness and many unanswered questions. We all have...[read more]

John Pike, the drummer of Ra Ra Riot, has been found dead.