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Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
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.
Forbes
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Selena Scores Another Posthumous Chart Win
30 years after her passing — almost to the day — Selena scores a new hit on a Billboard ranking. The Queen of Cumbia remains one of the most successful Tejano musicians of all time in the U.S., and her legacy continues to expand, thanks to special re-releases and anniversaries that remind the masses of her impact. Selena frequently appears on Billboard's various tallies, sometimes with the same title, and at other times with a variety of songs and collections. This frame, a pair of full-lengths from the late star secure spots on the charts, as one holds steady while another returns. Remarkably, her album Entre A Mi Mundo even lands on a list where she's only appeared a handful of times, and the singer scores another posthumous win. Entre A Mi Mundo debuts on the Vinyl Albums chart this week, Billboard's ranking of the bestselling full-lengths on wax throughout the U.S. Selena's effort enters at No. 14. It earns the seventh-highest start on the list, landing behind popular names like Ghost, D4vd, Rilo Kiley, and even Jeff Goldblum. What makes Selena's performance so special is that the collection is not new, it's just new to this tally. The project was originally released as the superstar's third album back in mid-1992. While she was already immensely popular within certain communities, this effort helped catapult her to even greater fame. It peaked at No. 97 on the Billboard 200 and climbed into the top 10 on several other Billboard rosters, including hitting No. 1 on the Regional Mexican Albums list. Entre A Mi Mundo was recently pressed on vinyl for the first time ever. Fans were offered a choice between a standard red wax record and a picture disc, which was made available exclusively through the Universal Music Latino website. Though the album was a bestseller when it was first released, vinyl was not in demand at the time, as it had faded from mainstream popularity following its heyday in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and the format's comeback had not yet begun. This latest win marks just Selena's third appearance on the Vinyl Albums chart. As it opens at No. 14, Entre A Mi Mundo becomes her only effort to land on the tally without hitting No. 1, as both Ones and Amor Prohibido previously spent one frame each leading the ranking. Alongside its vinyl debut, Entre A Mi Mundo also returns to two other Billboard rankings, thanks to its vinyl-related sales uptick. It reenters the Top Album Sales list at No. 35, marking a new all-time peak thanks to a little more than 2,500 copies purchased, according to Luminate. Simultaneously, it returns to the Top Latin Albums roster in the same position, No. 35, though that isn't a new best, as the title has previously soared to No. 4.
Axios
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
ACL Festival lineup features Sabrina Carpenter, Hozier
Pop sensation Sabrina Carpenter, indie rock and blues act Hozier and genre bending artist Doja Cat are among the headliners of this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival. The latest: Festival organizers released the lineup, which includes more than 100 bands, Tuesday morning. Three-day tickets go on sale at noon CT. General admission three-day tickets start at $360. Single-day tickets will go on sale later. The big picture: The two-weekend festival, Oct. 3-5 and Oct. 10-12, will feature many returning acts, including The Strokes, who headlined the fest in 2010. Zoom in: Country star Luke Combs, singer-songwriter and rapper Doechii, DJ and producer John Summit are also headlining. Other notable acts include: Rock band Cage the Elephant Colombian reggaeton singer Feid Indie rock band Rilo Kiley Hip hop and R&B artist T-Pain Mexican indie pop band Latin Mafia Djo, solo project of actor Joe Keery Indie rock pioneers Modest Mouse Singer-songwriter MJ Lenderman Indie rockers Car Seat Headrest Indie pop band Japanese Breakfast Australian electronic duo Empire of the Sun Rock band Pierce The Veil Country singer-songwriter Maren Morris Indie singer-songwriter
New York Times
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
The Resurrection of Rilo Kiley
When the Rilo Kiley singer and guitarist Blake Sennett wrote them 25 years ago, he concurred with the lyrics of 'Pictures of Success,' a song about longing to arrive at a destination despite, or because of, the inability to fully imagine it. 'I'm ready to go / Ready to go / Ready to go,' he howls on the track's refrain, harmonizing with the song's co-writer and the band's lead singer, Jenny Lewis, over a bed of chiming guitars. But the words hit him differently now. 'I'm not as ready to go as I was then,' joked Sennet, 51, on a recent video call from Los Angeles with his bandmates: Lewis, 49; the drummer Jason Boesel, 47; and the bassist Pierre 'Duke' de Reeder, 52. 'You already went,' Boesel quipped. 'We should license that song to, like, Cialis, or something,' Lewis suggested. 'Ready to go!' Life comes at you fast. Since the release of the first Rilo Kiley EP in 1999, the band has survived affiliation with Hollywood, straddled mid-aughts indie exuberance with its third album, 'More Adventurous' (2004), graduated to mainstream popularity with a follow-up, 'Under the Blacklight' (2007), split up under tense circumstances and — after the marriages, children and self-reflection of early middle-age — found its way back together again. On May 5, Rilo Kiley will play its first official show since 2008 — the start of a 24-date reunion tour. A greatest hits album, 'That's How We Choose to Remember It,' will be released on the 9th. 'It's a tender and scary and magical thing,' Lewis said. 'But who wouldn't want to go back to being in their mid-20s again?' The journey here began a little more than five years ago, in January 2020, when Sennett, who moved to Nashville in 2015, was visiting de Reeder in Los Angeles. The bassist invited Lewis and Boesel to join them for a casual barbecue, and the four found themselves in a room together for the first time in more than a decade. When the tour supporting 'Under the Blacklight' ended, in the spring of 2008, Rilo Kiley was effectively over. The album was the most commercially successful of the band's career, hitting No. 22 on Billboard's Top 200, with more than 186,000 units sold, and spawning a hit single, 'Silver Lining,' that has been streamed more than 37 million times on Spotify. But recording had been a struggle. The relationship between Sennett and Lewis, who met as teenagers and were romantically involved during the first incarnation of the band, had grown increasingly prickly. (Both released side projects — Sennett's 'Sun, Sun, Sun' with the Elected, and Lewis's 'Rabbit Fur Coat' with the Watson Twins — on the same day in 2006.) On tour, their long-simmering tension had finally boiled over. 'I think the end was nigh the moment we first hooked up,' Lewis said. 'We never really fixed the issues that we had as a couple. I remember a fight that we had, after we had first broken up, where I threw Blake's Pink Floyd CD out of the window. And then we were hanging out with other people, which got very messy on the road.' Looking back, everyone agrees that it's remarkable the band lasted for as long as it did. 'We didn't have the tools back then to sit down cross-legged and pass the ball back and forth and share our feelings, or whatever,' Sennett said. 'We just kind of stuffed it all down and became passive aggressive. Eventually, things devolved.' At the 2020 barbecue, their differences were far enough in the past that, for the first time, reconciliation felt possible. Soon after, Lewis relocated to Nashville during the pandemic, and Sennett came over and helped her work on her car. On another visit, he introduced her to his young daughter. 'We connected when the world was shut down, and that meant a lot to me,' Lewis said. 'It put things into focus.' In 2023, the organizers of the nostalgia-tinged music festival Just Like Heaven reached out to Lewis's manager to ask if Rilo Kiley would consider performing. At the time, she was on a tour with the indie electro-pop act the Postal Service, commemorating the 20th anniversary of its millennial-beloved album, 'Give Up.' Seeing the emotional outpouring from crowds who'd grown up with the music as the soundtrack of their lives made Lewis imagine creating a similar experience for Rilo Kiley fans. 'I'm looking at people in the audience while I'm playing, and the connection was just so beautiful and powerful,' she said. 'It really inspired me to want to do that with our songs.' A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, at de Reeder's recording studio in Los Angeles's Highland Park, the band assembled to start rehearsals for the reunion tour. They unearthed their old instruments and gear, including a Roland keyboard used to record 'The Execution of All Things,' their breakthrough sophomore album from 2002. Lewis and Sennett started the band in 1998, when they were 22 and 24. Both were former child actors who found in music what they had yearned for while shuttling between film and television jobs: autonomy, immediacy, a community that felt real. At Lewis's apartment in West Hollywood, which she shared with three roommates, they wrote dozens of songs inspired by heartache, sex, family lore and pop culture. 'It just unlocked something in me,' she said. 'I have all these shoe boxes from that era filled with notebooks of songs and insane lyrics. I couldn't stop.' Taking cues from their forerunners in left-of-center, confessional rock music, including Modest Mouse, Built to Spill and Elliott Smith, Rilo Kiley charted the soaring highs and hairpin turns of youthful identity formation. Katie Crutchfield, of the alt-country band Waxahatchee, said discovering the band in high school was what pushed her to make her own music. 'There's a powerful femininity to the way Jenny writes and presents herself that made me feel like I could do that,' said Crutchfield, who tattooed the cover of 'The Execution of All Things' on her arm. 'As a 15-year-old girl in Alabama, I just hadn't had examples of a person like her. It rocked my entire world.' Mike Mogis, of the indie-folk band Bright Eyes, who produced 'The Execution of All Things' and 'More Adventurous,' said the band epitomized the alternately disillusioned and idealistic spirit of the age. 'The characters in Jenny's songs always have a troubled past or present, but at the same time there's some hopefulness to it,' Mogis said. 'It was the best of all worlds.' Apart from the band's interpersonal conflicts, there were some growing pains. In 2004, Rilo Kiley began working with Warner Bros. Records, parting ways with the indie label Saddle Creek and a collective of D.I.Y.-minded musicians in Omaha led by the Bright Eyes founder Conor Oberst. Signing to a major helped Rilo Kiley reach a wider audience and get its songs on the radio and in movies and television. But Lewis felt anxious about preserving the band's authenticity, and clashed with Warner over its marketing. 'On our first video with them,' for the 'More Adventurous' single 'Portions for Foxes,' 'I was wearing this cute little vintage Pucci dress and they wanted me in something more revealing,' she recalled. 'That was not something I was willing to do. I was like, 'No, no, no. I pick out my own clothes.'' Although Lewis and the others said they had a positive experience at Warner overall, the greatest hits album will be released via Saddle Creek. More than 15 years since their last performance, the band members are preparing themselves mentally, physically and emotionally for a return to the stage. The third stop on the tour is the Just Like Heaven festival — at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. — which will be headlined by Vampire Weekend and attended by tens of thousands of fans. Before hitting the road, they've planned an intimate friends and family show in Los Angeles to work out lingering nerves. 'I don't want to prove anything, but I would like to illustrate,' Boesel said, 'that we're an authentic band and these are authentically wonderful songs that people love.' Earlier this month, after a week of rehearsals, muscle memory had already begun to kick in. 'I look around and everyone's in their old spots,' de Reeder said. 'It's like, 'Oh, yeah. We're doing this thing.''
