Songwriter Julia Steiner chats about the band’s brilliant new album ahead of its April 13 show at the Bluebird.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ratboys. (Credit: Z Marciniak) One of the delights of the prior Ratboys album, 2023’s The Window, is that I could recommend it to ...

Plus: Beverly Phono Mart opens a pop-up while its crashed-into storefront gets fixed, “dungeongaze” group Gauntlets celebrate a new EP, and more. Ratboys have also done a little something special for ...

RATBOYS: (Singing) Stretch out as big as you can go. I won't say I told you so. I won't say what's right. So what's it gonna take to open up tonight? SIMON: Julia Steiner sings about that estrangement ...

The night before their headlining Brooklyn show at Warsaw with Florry, Ratboys played a second NYC show, announced at the last minute and happening at intimate East Village spot Night Club 101. The ...

Singin' to an Empty Chair, the latest album from Chicago band Ratboys, takes its name from lead vocalist Julia Steiner's experience in therapy. "Picture this: You're sitting across from a chair where ...

It was a frosty February night in Chicago, but the Beat Kitchen was warm and cozy. Ratboys were playing their sixth album, Singin’ to an Empty Chair—released that morning on the band’s new label, New ...

Welcome to Seven in Seven, where we look at shows coming to the region over the next week. As always, whether your musical tastes are rock ’n’ roll, jazz, heavy metal, R&B, singer-songwriter or indie, ...

Pavement had already announced a handful of US shows this summer. Here’s another: they’ll be in Philadelphia for the 10th anniversary Make The World Better Concert Weekend, happening at the Dell Music ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Julia Steiner of the band Ratboys. Their new album is called "Singin' to an Empty Chair." RATBOYS: (Singing) Stretch out as big as you can go. I won't say I told you so.