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12-05-2025
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Watch Rilo Kiley Revisit Fan Favorite ‘Silver Lining' on ‘Kimmel'
Rilo Kiley appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform their song 2007 song 'Silver Lining.' The indie band, led by Jenny Lewis, took the late-night show stage for an intimate performance that focused on the music rather than dramatic production, offering a tease of their current tour. The group, who reunited earlier this year after breaking up in 2011, are releasing their greatest hits album, That's How We Choose to Remember It, today. 'Silver Lining' originally appeared on 2007's Under the Blacklight, the band's final studio LP, and is the opening track on the new compilation. More from Rolling Stone Shakira Reflects on 20 Years of 'Hips Don't Lie': 'It Changed My Story' Watch Jessica Pratt and Destroyer Perform Together on 'Everybody's Live' Barry Keoghan Met With Ringo Starr to 'Study Him' for Upcoming Films Rilo Kiley, comprised of Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre De Reeder, and Jason Boesel, recently kicked off their reunion tour, which runs through May and resumes in September. They'll hit their previously-announced festival appearances at Just Like Heaven (May 10) and Kilby Block Party (May 16) along the way. 'It's going to be wonderful for us, like going back to the purest version of yourself, that early '20s place where everything is possible,' Lewis said in a statement. 'You're in a van and Jason's got the map, Pierre is behind the wheel, and I'm on the shitty acoustic guitar on the bench seat working out a new song with Blake. I don't think it's ever been as good as that, when it was just us against the world.' That's How We Choose to Remember It features 11 songs off the group's four LPs. 'For some people, Rilo Kiley evokes a formative, emotional time in life, when you were maybe grasping for your place in the universe,' Sennett said in a statement. 'We were too.' De Reeder added, 'Planning this reunion over these past months has been like reconnecting with family. We haven't missed a beat. The stakes are only to have a good time, to revel in this nostalgia. Getting to revisit and celebrate the music from that special time of our lives while experiencing it alongside a lot of people that lived it with us back when, and new folks alike.' Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Los Angeles Times
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Rilo Kiley's reunion is right on time at Just Like Heaven
'Can you believe,' Jenny Lewis asked, 'this is our third show in 17 years?' Wearing the same outfit she'd worn at the first two — polka-dot mini-dress, white ruffle socks, a glittering tiara perched atop her head — Lewis was onstage Saturday night with her band Rilo Kiley at the Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena. 'It's truly amazing to be here with you all,' she told the crowd of thousands spread across the leafy grounds surrounding the Rose Bowl. 'But mostly,' she added, turning to her bandmates, 'it's amazing to be here with you all.' One of the defining Los Angeles rock bands of the last quarter-century, Rilo Kiley formed in 1998 — both Lewis and the group's other singer and songwriter, Blake Sennett, had been child actors — then spent the next decade steadily approaching the big time with clever if jaundiced songs about sex, bad decisions and the Hollywood dream machine. Yet just as the band was poised to blow up, Rilo Kiley split amid creative and personal tensions between Lewis and Sennett, who'd also been romantically involved. Now, for the first time since 2008, the group — rounded out by Pierre De Reeder and Jason Boesel — is on the road playing shows again; its reunion tour launched last week with gigs in San Luis Obispo and Ojai and is scheduled to run through the fall. The timing makes sense, given that Lewis over the intervening years has become something of an older-sister figure for a subsequent generation or two of smart young musicians writing about all the ways the world can disappoint a woman in her 20s. (Think Phoebe Bridgers, think Haim, think Olivia Rodrigo.) Then again, nostalgia is rarely required to justify itself, as Just Like Heaven made clear. A fixture of the Southern California festival landscape since 2019, this annual show brings together veterans of early-2000s indie rock to relive memories of an era before streaming and social media remade pop music; other acts high on the bill this year included Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Bloc Party, the Drums and Toro y Moi. Near the end of its headlining set on Saturday, Vampire Weekend offered up what frontman Ezra Koenig called 'a salute to indie' — strung-together covers of period hits by Phoenix, Tame Impala, Beach House, Grizzly Bear and TV on the Radio — in a slot the band typically dedicates to audience requests for oldies like 'Don't Stop Believin' ' or 'Dancing in the Dark.' That Grizzly Bear's 'Two Weeks' now qualifies as a classic was a fact nobody seemed to need convincing. Indeed, Lewis has said that part of what led her to reconvene Rilo Kiley was the huge success of a recent reunion tour by the Postal Service, the electro-pop side project that she and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard introduced in 2003 and which last year headlined Just Like Heaven after earlier selling out three nights at the Hollywood Bowl. Yet if all that eagerness to reminisce made easy pickings of folks in Pasadena, Rilo Kiley played with more muscle and panache than it needed to on Saturday in an hour-long set that showcased the band's impressive versatility. 'The Execution of All Things' and 'With Arms Outstretched' were crisp and strummy, while 'The Moneymaker' rode a raunchy soul-rock groove and 'Dreamworld' evoked the glossy menace of mid-'70s Fleetwood Mac. Now as during the group's heyday, what elevated the performance was Lewis' skill as a storyteller: the torch-song melancholy she found in 'I Never,' about a woman betting too much on a relationship, and the perfectly soapy romantic drama of 'Does He Love You?' in which she plays two of the three parts in a doomed love triangle. For the latter, she grabbed a video camera and roamed the stage, sending footage of her bandmates to the giant screen behind her — not just the star of the Rilo Kiley show but its director too. On Spotify, the band's biggest song is the coolly self-assured 'Silver Lining,' from its darkly funny final LP, 'Under the Blacklight,' and here Lewis delivered it with a swaggy nonchalance. But the true heads know that Rilo Kiley's real should've-been-a-hit was 2004's sly yet ebullient 'Portions for Foxes' — 'The talking leads to touching / And the touching leads to sex,' goes one key line — which is why the group finished with the song at Just Like Heaven. As she sauntered offstage, Lewis blew a kiss to the crowd, then jumped back to her microphone, grabbed a Modelo she'd left behind and took a sip through a straw.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
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Rilo Kiley will head to St. Paul during first tour in 17 years
Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre de Reeder, and Jason Boesel are back together and touring for the first time in 17 years. After announcing a handful of shows in May, Rilo Kiley has announced a 13-date tour that will bring them to the Palace Theatre in St. Paul on Sept. 16. Additionally, the band is releasing a greatest hits album, titled That's How We Choose to Remember It. The album, which predominantly pulls from their last three albums, will be released on May 9. "It couldn't have happened any sooner," Lewis said in an announcement, talking about the band's reunion. "It feels like now is the time to share that joy and love with each other and with everyone else.' The Palace Theatre show will be the group's only stop in the Upper Midwest. Tickets for the tour, dubbed "Sometimes When You're On You're F***ing on Tour," are on sale Friday, Feb. 28 at 10 a.m.
Yahoo
04-02-2025
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Rilo Kiley Reunite, Announce First Tour in 17 Years: 'It's Going to Be Wonderful for Us'
There's a "silver lining" to 2025 — and it's a Rilo Kiley tour! On Tuesday, Feb. 4, the indie-rock band announced their first tour in 17 years, after previously revealing they'd be performing at Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena, Calif. and Kilby Block Party in Salt Lake City. Rilo Kiley — comprised of Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre de Reeder, and Dave Rock — shared a tour poster featuring a throwback photo of the band on Instagram to announce the news on Tuesday, Feb. 4. "Sometimes when you're on, you're really f---king on tour in 2025!" they wrote, adding a list of tour dates. "Tickets on sale Friday, February 7 at 10am local time." Related: Music Festivals 2025: Performers, Dates, Locations and Everything You Need to Know The band announced a run of North American dates and festival performances that will include stops across the western half of the U.S. and Canada. The leg will kick off in San Luis Obispo, Calif. at the Fremont Theatre on May 5, making stops in Phoenix, Vancouver and more before wrapping on May 23 in Portland at McMenamins Grand Lodge. Tickets for the May leg of shows go on sale Feb. 7 and will be available for purchase here. 'It's going to be wonderful for us, like going back to the purest version of yourself, that early '20s place where everything is possible,' said Lewis in a press release statement. 'You're in a van and Jason's got the map, Pierre is behind the wheel, and I'm on the s---ty acoustic guitar on the bench seat working out a new song with Blake. I don't think it's ever been as good as that, when it was just us against the world.' Alongside the tour news, Rilo Kiley also announced they will be releasing a special reissue of their landmark album The Execution of All Things, which will be titled The Execution of All Things (Frozen Lake Edition) and will be released April 25 via Saddle Creek. Rilo Kiley formed in 1998 in Los Angeles. The band released their debut album Take-Offs and Landings in 2001, The Execution of All Things in 2002 and More Adventurous in 2004, as well as a handful of EPs. In 2007, they released their last album Under the Blacklight. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Related: Zach Bryan, Jelly Roll and Luke Combs to Headline 2025 Stagecoach Festival: See the Complete Lineup! See the full list of tour dates below. 5/05/25 - San Luis Obispo, CA - Fremont Theatre5/07/25 - Ojai, CA - Libbey Bowl5/10/25 - Pasadena, CA - Just Like Heaven5/12/25 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren5/14/25 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre * w/ Julien Baker & TORRES5/16/25 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Block Party5/17/25 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest5/19/25 - Jackson, WY - Center for the Arts5/21/25 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom5/23/25 - Portland, OR - McMenamins Grand Lodge Read the original article on People
Yahoo
27-01-2025
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Rilo Kiley's First Show in 17 Years Confirmed for Just Like Heaven Festival, With Vampire Weekend Co-Headlining
The annual Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena will feature a set by the newly reunited Rilo Kiley — the band's first show since 2008 — with the group joining Vampire Weekend as co-headliners of the SoCal gathering May 10. Rilo Kiley last performed together in a headlining show at L.A.'s Greek Theatre on June 18, 2008, according to In the intervening eight years, Jenny Lewis has enjoyed a successful solo career; she will be rejoined at Just Like Heaven — and other tour dates to follow — by bandmates Blake Sennett, Pierre De Reeder and Jason Boesel. More from Variety Vampire Weekend Sinks Teeth Into a Daytime Show - or Is It Nighttime? - Celebrating Eclipse in Austin: Concert Review Vampire Weekend Reinvents Its Sound (Again) With 'Only God Was Above Us': Album Review Vampire Weekend to Embark on 2024 Tour, Releases Two New Singles Tickets for Just Like Heaven, which takes place on the grounds adjacent to the Rose Bowl, go on sale Friday at 11 a.m. PT at GA passes start at $175, VIP passes start at $399 and clubhouse pricing is $649, all before fees. In deference to the recent fire disasters in the area, Goldenvoice is offering verified first responders two complimentary passes each to the festival. Others on the lineup include Slowdive, Empire of the Sun, Bloc Party, TV on the Radio, the Drums, Courtney Barnett, Toro y Moi, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Grouplove, Perfume Genius, the Sounds, Panda Bear, Beach Fossils, and Peter Bjorn and John. A 30-second teaser video of the band members goofing around was posted on the group's YouTube page, accompanied by text that amends a familiar song to read 'Sometimes When You're On You're Really F**cking On Tour.' Tour dates to follow the festival re-debut have not been announced yet. The quartet issued a collective statement, saying, 'We are so very excited to come back together for Just Like Heaven in Pasadena, California — Los Angeles. As a band, we began here, and we feel so fortunate to return among so many artists and friends, to this community we hold so dear, in such a beautiful and meaningful place.' Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Disney+ in February 2025 What's Coming to Netflix in January 2025
