Backseat Live: Ra Ra Riot

Fusing cellos with keyboards and big vocal hooks, melodic chamber pop sextet Ra Ra Riot have long been compared to contemporaries like Vampire Weekend and Death Cab for Cutie. The Feast recently hopped in a cab with three of the band’s members, who added two new components to the latest episode of Backseat Live: synths and jean shorts. Lovely. Watch the catchy clip above of the trio performing “Boy,” a single off their second studio effort, 2010’s The Orchard, as they cruise through the sunny streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Read more.