Altsounds — After stunning American audiences with his powerful solo performances, Villagers' frontman Conor J. O'Brien has confirmed his first ever full band North American tour supporting the Mercury Prize-nominated debut, 'Becoming a Jackal' (Domino Recor... more info

Stereogum — Ra Ra Riot debuted the video for The Orchard’s first single “Boy.” It stars the band, one friendly cat, and a bunch of patient lighting assistants. Watch: The Orchard is out 8/24 via Barsuk. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Gabi Porter, words by Rachel Kowal After Young Man, the second act of the evening, We Barbarians, stepped up the intensity with their pounding drums and deeper and more desperate vocals. In between songs, Young Man talked enthusiastically..... more info

Stereogum — 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) T... more info

NME - The Daily Download — There are a bunch of great mixtapes on the Web this week, so we've found the best ones for you, along with a few other free track downloads. Have at them, and share your thoughts below. 1. Ra Ra Riot – ‘Boy’ New York indie-rockers Ra Ra Riot w... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — How do you a man’s groggy Wednesday better? New music from Ra Ra Riot of course. The band has just released “Boy”, the first single from new album The Orchard for free download on their website. “Boy” features a pretty fat bassline. Everyth... more info

Stereogum — 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 decep... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Ra Ra Riot are releasing their new album, The Orchard, in August. In order to keep us on our toes, they are giving us little previews of each song in a really cool trailer form. The first song we got a preview of was “Keep It Quiet”. Now the band... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 07-16 New York, NY - Governors Island % 07-24 Hill Farm, England - Truck Festival 07-26 London, England - The Lexington ^ 07-28 Paris, France - Le Nouveau Casino 09-05 Chicago, IL - North Coast Fest & 09-09 Portland, OR - Musicfest Northwest * % wit... more info

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