The Past is Still Alive

by Hurray For The Riff Raff

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Steve Butler The whole album is brilliant. Can't say I know much about Americana but the lyrics on these just pull me in. Segarra's voice is fantastic. Favorite track: Hawkmoon.

kevinhandran love it! ditto to everything already said. lots of good melody, a nice pace to it, great songs. a beautiful voice accented nicely by the slide guitar, horns, strings & vocal harmony's. can't stop listening to it.numerous favorite songs. Favorite track: Snakeplant (The Past Is Still Alive).

Ian Wallace Can’t stop listening to Ogallala. Whole album so great

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1.	Alibi 02:48	buy track
2.	Buffalo 03:42	buy track
3.	Hawkmoon 03:42	buy track
4.	Colossus of Roads 02:45	buy track
5.	Snakeplant (The Past Is Still Alive) 04:07	buy track
6.	Vetiver 03:52	buy track
7.	Hourglass 02:50	buy track
8.	Dynamo 03:07	buy track
9.	The World Is Dangerous 03:45	buy track
10.	Ogallala 04:59	buy track
11.	Kiko Forever 01:02	buy track

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The Past Is Still Alive sees Hurray for the Riff Raff reunite with Brad Cook, while further expanding their creative cast of collaborators. Anjimile, Conor Oberst, and S.G. Goodman all join Alynda Segarra on vocals at various points throughout the LP, with a band of musicians including Cook, Libby Rodenbough, Matt Douglas, Meg Duffy of Hand Habits, Mike Mogis, Phil Cook, and Yan Westerlund. Mike Mogis also mixed the album, and it was mastered by Heba Kadry.

The “nature punk” of Life on Earth marked a departure for Hurray for the Riff Raff, as they contemplated surviving and thriving amidst a world in crisis. The Past Is Still Alive brings the focus back inwards, with arrangements that are raw, melodies direct and indelible, and lyrics that are personal yet largely rooted in family and community. There are love songs to real characters, locations and mythic figures like Sky Red Hawk (“Buffalo”); the first trans woman Segarra ever met (“Hawkmoon”); queerness and sacred spaces for outsiders and the vulnerable, in the aftermath of the Club Q shooting (“Colossus of Roads”); leaving home behind and discovering oneself on the edge of the world (“Snake Plant”); and short-lived romances and the wisdom gained through chaos (“Vetiver”). Elsewhere, in the self-portraits painted on “Alibi,” “Ogallala,” and other album highlights, Segarra reflects on the land they have traveled, the hardships witnessed, and bravery gained while running away from everything and everyone they knew at age seventeen, hopping freight trains and hitchhiking across the country with a band of street urchins.

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released February 23, 2024

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Hurray For The Riff Raff New Orleans, Louisiana

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Nov 15

Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez

Mexico City, Mexico
Feb 26

George's Majestic Lounge

Fayetteville, AR
Feb 27

ACL Live at The Moody Theater

Austin, TX
Feb 28

The Factory in Deep Ellum

Dallas, TX
Mar 1

Aztec Theater

San Antonio, TX
Mar 2

Chelsea’s Live

Baton Rouge, LA
Mar 3

Florida Theatre

Jacksonville, FL
Mar 5

Jannus Live

St Petersburg, FL
Mar 7

The Beacham

Orlando, FL
Mar 8

Tabernacle

Atlanta, GA
Mar 9

The Mill & Mine

Knoxville, TN
Mar 13

The Orange Peel

Asheville, NC
Mar 14

The Caverns

Pelham, TN
Mar 17

Minglewood Hall

Memphis, TN
Mar 18

The Hall

Little Rock, AR
Mar 20

Cain's Ballroom

Tulsa, OK
Mar 21

Uptown Theater

Kansas City, MO
Mar 22

The Pageant

St Louis, MO

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