Reuters - Just as the members of indie-pop band Ra Ra Riot were getting ready to hit the big time in 2007, tragedy struck, with the drowning death of the group's drummer, John Pike.

We posted a live video of Ra Ra Riot playing “Too Dramatic” at 2009’s Noise Pop Festival in their Progress Report for upcoming LP The Orchard. Now you can hear the longtime live staple in studio form:(via Some Kind Of Awesome via Vulture)The Orchard is out 8/24 via Barsuk. We previously gave you “Boy,&...

In the two years since New York’s Ra Ra Riot put out their debut album, lead singer Wes Miles teamed up with old pal and multi-tasking Vampire Weekend/Boys Like Us/summer song slinger Rostam Batmanglij for Discovery, a pop project framed as a deceptively adept love letter to electro-R&B, by an initially unlikely pair of genre [...

Other acts set to appear include Broken Social Scene, Miike Snow, !!! and Ra Ra Riot

'The Orchard' is due out on August 24