Just as the indie-rock band Ra Ra Riot was ready to record its first album last year, drummer John Pike, 23, died in an apparent drowning accident in Buzzards Bay near Fairhaven, Mass.

Devastating as the death still is to the six-member band, the resulting CD, “The Rhumb Line,” has kept Pike’s spirit alive through the work he did on the songs.

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