`DEFINED BY THE MUSIC' RILO KILEY SOUNDS OFF ON ITS NAME AND GROWING FAME.Byline: Fred Shuster Music Writer In a few more months, hardly anyone is going to ask the members of indie-pop quartet Rilo Kiley Rilo Kiley is a Los Angeles-based indie rock band. Band members include Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre de Reeder and Jason Boesel. History Fronted by former child actors Lewis (Troop Beverly Hills, The Wizard) and Sennett (Salute Your Shorts , ``Hey, which one's Rilo?'' The group, whose twee, lightly produced folk-pop has struck a nerve with folks who a generation earlier might've been lining up to see the Sundays, will soon embark on 21 arena dates with Coldplay. It appears to be an ideal match. Like their chart-topping touring partners, with whom they share a management company, Rilo Kiley makes oddly uplifting songs of heartbreak, drawing on classic rock and pop. Hushed, lightly picked acoustic-guitar numbers often swell into charming, fully realized pieces. Lyrics are personal meditations that could've been lifted from a bedside diary. ``It started slowly, by people coming to the shows and supporting us and telling their friends,'' says bassist Pierre de Reeder Pierre de Reeder (b. 1973) is the bassist for Rilo Kiley. He attended La Jolla High School, the same high school as Blake Sennett, and joined the band in 1998. When not playing with Rilo Kiley, Pierre works on his solo project. He was formerly known as Duke de Reeder. . ``It crept upward. The biggest push came from below, not above.'' There is no Rilo, nor a Kiley in the Los Angeles-based group. The name was dreamed up by guitarist-singer Blake Sennett Blake Sennett (born September 22, 1973 in San Diego, California) is the lead guitarist for indie rock band Rilo Kiley and the lead singer, lead guitarist for his alt rock side project The Elected. Blake attended La Jolla Country Day School. , who formed the quartet in 1998 with fellow former child actor Jenny Lewis on vocals/keyboards, and, later, drummer Jason Boesel. ``It's the Jethro Tull Jethro Tull can refer to:
After years of recording, relentlessly slogging around the clubs, slowly developing an audience and making powerful friends, Rilo Kiley was hailed the greatest rock act of 2004 in Rolling Stone rolling stone Noun a restless or wandering person . Highly placed fans like the air staff at KCRW-FM (89.9) helped break the band nationally. Recently, Elvis Costello  The of this article or section may be compromised by "peacock terms".You can help Wikipedia by removing peacock terms. put the Rilo Kiley track ``Does He Love You'' on a Starbucks compilation of his own musical favorites, alongside Aretha Franklin, the Band, and Simon & Garfunkel. Following the natural order of things, the group's third album and major-label debut, ``More Adventurous,'' which takes in a broad range of styles, from power-pop to alt-country and r&b in 11 tracks, has been as rapturously rap·tur·ous adj. Filled with great joy or rapture; ecstatic. rap  tur·ous·ly adv. received as 2002's ``The Execution of All Things.'' Rilo Kiley appears Saturday on the first night of the two-day Sunset Junction Street Fair The Sunset Junction Street Fair is an event held annually in the Sunset Junction neighborhood of the Silver Lake community in Los Angeles, California. Occurring annually in late August, the two-day neighborhood festival was first held in 1980 as a way to quell tensions between the in Silver Lake. The day's lineup includes John Cale, Jason Falkner and Freda Payne, while Sunday has the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Dolls, Chaka Khan and the Suicide Girls. ``It's our hometown street scene thing,'' de Reeder said. ``It's a fun event and, historically, it's had some great bands. We like being a prominent part of it.'' One of the band's draws is Lewis, a Valley native who worked on TV commercials and sitcoms as a child before appearing in ``Pleasantville'' and starring alongside Fred Savage in 1989's ``The Wizard'' while still a teenager. (Songwriting partner Sennett can be seen in reruns of TV's ``Boy Meets World'') But even from the quartet's earliest days, the musicians felt their music was the most important thing in their lives. ``We've all been big avoiders of day jobs, so we prematurely thought we could keep the band as a main thing,'' said de Reeder, a fan of classic Neil Young and Bob Dylan. ``Only in the past year has it been tangible. Whenever we made any money over the years, we were very self-sufficient and always reinvested in the band.'' Life for Rilo Kiley will almost certainly change as a result of the Coldplay dates, which take place in the Midwest and East Coast and include a couple of nights at Madison Square Garden Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference . The invitation arose after Rilo Kiley opened for Coldplay in Las Vegas, and singer Chris Martin liked what he heard. ``We tour a lot,'' de Reeder said. ``But the arena thing - yeah, that's completely another way to put your music across.'' Fred Shuster, (818) 713-3676 fred.shuster(at)dailynews.com RILO KILEY What: 25th annual Sunset Junction Street Fair. Saturday's lineup includes Rilo Kiley, John Cale, Jason Falkner, Freda Payne, plus others; Sunday has the New York Dolls, Chaka Khan, Suicide Girls, the Weirdos and more. Where: Sunset Boulevard, between Fountain and Edgecliff avenues, Silver Lake. When: 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday (Rilo Kiley plays at 9:30 p.m.); 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $10 per day. Call (323) 661-7771; sunsetjunction.org. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: no caption (Rilo Kiley) |
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