Ra Ra Riot is a rock band from Syracuse, NY formed by Milo Bonacci, Wes Miles, Mathieu Santos, Rebecca Zeller, Kenny Bernard and John Pike.

Ra Ra Riot formed in January 2006, playing at houses and venues around the Syracuse University campus. They recorded a demo in February 2006. The band started to attract attention due to their energetic live shows, enough to gain an appearance at the CMJ Music Marathon, fewer than six months after their formation.

On June 2, 2007, at 3 a.m., the band’s original drummer, John Ryan Pike, of Hamilton, Massachusetts, went missing under suspicious circumstances at a party at Wilbur’s Point in Fairhaven, Massachusetts after a show in Providence, Rhode Island. A search party discovered his cellphone on the beach at Buzzard’s Bay. His body was discovered June 3, 2007 at 4:10 p.m. in Buzzards Bay; Pike was believed to have drowned. No foul play was suspected. Ra Ra Riot issued a statement a few weeks after Pike’s funeral that they would continue as a band.

The band’s third studio album, Beta Love, was released on January 22, 2013, and coincided with a live worldwide Internet broadcast of the band’s concert that night at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York. The album was the band’s first studio album since the departure of Lawn and marked a shift in their musical style away from their earlier baroque pop and more towards synthpop. A video was produced for the song “Dance With Me”.

Their latest effort Need Your Light was released in 2016 on Barsuk Records.

also playing that evening:
PWR BTTM
And The Kids

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