The Navigator

The band's sixth LP demands more seats at the table. It's a powerful folk concept album from a Nuyorican runaway who grew up obsessed with West Side Story before being liberated by Bikini Kill.

Alynda Segarra's fierce reaction to the current political climate in the US

Alynda Lee Segarra collides genres with her imaginary sci-fi musical

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Also: Hurray for the Riff Raff, Les Amazones d’Afrique, Sir Was, Inna De Yard

Questions of identity are central to The Navigator, but in terms of musical identity, Hurray for the Riff Raff know exactly who they are.

One of the goals of Hurray for the Riff Raff's lead singer Alynda Segarra is remaking folk music for the politics and desires of the current...

Alynda Segarra, aka Hurray for the Riff Raff, returns to her Bronx roots in The Navigator.

Alynda Segarra draws on her Puerto Rican roots with a genre-bending album of anger, yearning and songs that just flow

The album evocatively captures the essence of the streets of New York’s increasingly gentrified outer boroughs.

Powerfully distinct among efforts from numerous other ragtag folk bands.