"Colossus of Roads," was written in one tearful sitting during the aftermath of the Club Q shooting. The love song for the queer, the vulnerable and the dispossessed calls to idols like poet Eileen Myles and boxcar artist buZ blurr.
Watch the videos for "Colossus of Roads" & "Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)," and read the songs' lyrics at Oxford American
"I've only had this experience a couple of times, where a song falls on me—it's all there, and I don't do anything. Writing 'Colossus of Roads' felt like creating a space where all us outsiders can be safe together. That doesn't exist, but it exists in our minds, and it exists in this song – this one is sacred to me. I've also always wanted to make my version of Bob Dylan's 'I Was Young When I Left Home,' and 'Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)' is it." -- Alynda Segarra/Hurray for the Riff Raff
"I've only had this experience a couple of times, where a song falls on me—it's all there, and I don't do anything. Writing 'Colossus of Roads' felt like creating a space where all us outsiders can be safe together. That doesn't exist, but it exists in our minds, and it exists in this song – this one is sacred to me. I've also always wanted to make my version of Bob Dylan's 'I Was Young When I Left Home,' and 'Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)' is it." -- Alynda Segarra/Hurray for the Riff Raff
Produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver), and recorded in Durham, NC just a month after the passing of Alynda Segarra's father, The Past Is Still Alive grapples with time, memory, love and loss.
"Colossus of Roads" and "Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)" follow lead single "Alibi," a reckoning with addiction set in NYC's Lower East Side. On The Past Is Still Alive, the Bronx-born, New Orleans-based Segarra widens their cast of collaborators to include Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and others.
A vast world continues to be formed as Alynda Segarra uses The Past Is Still Alive to finally tell the story of their life so far. The album was just previewed in a special event at NYC's historic St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, featuring poetry readings from Amelia Jackie, Cookie Hagendorf, and Sadie Dupuis (of Speedy Ortiz), a performance and more in partnership with Poetry Project.
On February 21st, Segarra will receive The People's Voice Award at Folk Alliance International's 2024 International Folk Music Awards, and on February 25, they will begin to showcase the music of The Past Is Still Alive on a spring tour of dozens of shows throughout the US, UK and EU.
In partnership with PLUS1, $1 per ticket will support This Must Be The Place and their work to distribute Naloxone - the lifesaving medicine that reverses an overdose, and will be available for free at every Hurray for the Riff Raff tour stop. Find the full list of shows below and tickets at hurrayfortheriffraff.com/tour.
World Tour Dates:
2/25 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitina's*
2/27 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade (Hell Stage)*
2/28 - Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall*
2/29 - Washington, DC - Atlantis*
3/1 - Philadelphia, PA - Foundry*
3/3 - Woodstock, NY - Levon Helm Studios*
3/5 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg*
3/6 - Boston, MA - Sinclair*
3/9 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground*
3/10 - Toronto, ON - Great Hall*
3/12 - Columbus, OH - Skully's*
3/14 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall*
3/15 - Saint Paul, MN - Amsterdam Bar & Hall*
3/22 - Knoxville, TN - Big Ears Festival
3/28 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater^
3/30 - Seattle, WA - Neumos^
4/1 - San Francisco, CA - August Hall^
4/2 - Sacramento, CA - Harlow's^
4/4 - San Diego, CA - Voodoo Room^
4/5 - Los Angeles, CA - Belasco^
4/6 - Pioneertown, CA - Pappy & Harriet's^
4/7 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar^
4/9 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge^
4/10 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge^
4/12 - Fort Worth, TX - Tulips^
4/13 - Austin, TX - 3TEN^
4/14 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall^
5/10 - Dublin, IE - Button Factory
5/11 - Manchester, UK - Deaf Institute
5/12 - Glasgow, UK - Mono
5/14 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
5/15 - Birmingham, UK - Castle & Falcon
5/16 - Bristol, UK - Strange Brew
5/17 - London, UK - Electric Brixton
5/19 - Paris, FR - La Maroquinerie
5/20 - Brussels, BE - Botanique
5/21 - Amsterdam, NE - Tolhuistuin
5/23 - Berlin, DE - Privatclub
5/25 - Madrid, ES - Tomavistas Festival
*w/ NNAMDÏ
^w/ Sen Morimoto
2/28 - Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall*
2/29 - Washington, DC - Atlantis*
3/1 - Philadelphia, PA - Foundry*
3/3 - Woodstock, NY - Levon Helm Studios*
3/5 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg*
3/6 - Boston, MA - Sinclair*
3/9 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground*
3/10 - Toronto, ON - Great Hall*
3/12 - Columbus, OH - Skully's*
3/14 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall*
3/15 - Saint Paul, MN - Amsterdam Bar & Hall*
3/22 - Knoxville, TN - Big Ears Festival
3/28 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater^
3/30 - Seattle, WA - Neumos^
4/1 - San Francisco, CA - August Hall^
4/2 - Sacramento, CA - Harlow's^
4/4 - San Diego, CA - Voodoo Room^
4/5 - Los Angeles, CA - Belasco^
4/6 - Pioneertown, CA - Pappy & Harriet's^
4/7 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar^
4/9 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge^
4/10 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge^
4/12 - Fort Worth, TX - Tulips^
4/13 - Austin, TX - 3TEN^
4/14 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall^
5/10 - Dublin, IE - Button Factory
5/11 - Manchester, UK - Deaf Institute
5/12 - Glasgow, UK - Mono
5/14 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
5/15 - Birmingham, UK - Castle & Falcon
5/16 - Bristol, UK - Strange Brew
5/17 - London, UK - Electric Brixton
5/19 - Paris, FR - La Maroquinerie
5/20 - Brussels, BE - Botanique
5/21 - Amsterdam, NE - Tolhuistuin
5/23 - Berlin, DE - Privatclub
5/25 - Madrid, ES - Tomavistas Festival
*w/ NNAMDÏ
^w/ Sen Morimoto
Photo courtesy Shore Fire Media
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