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Dead Pan Rangers are not a "the" band. They have have been interested in mixing experimentalism with flying nun style "pop" hooks ever since they first stumbled onto music such as the 3ds, early Mercury Rev, Pavement and Sonic Youth.Since then they have released 3 cds and one obscure tape in the guise of their former moniker "Mystery Machine."Shows have taken place with or without their consent in two hemispheres, and in three different countries.Now they have relocated from beautiful New Zealand to grimy London and beyond (one of the them inhabits another world where beer is cheap and the language violent), and hope to release a belated fourth CD sometime in the future.In the meantime their back catalogue is available from their website, or from Powertool Records in New Zealand.The only advice they are capable of administering is: "let me in, IÂ´m a Ranger." You may find this useful in a good many situations.
St Stephens Hidden Valley Road (Live)

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Member Since: 8/30/2006
Band Website: deadpanrangers.net
Band Members: Mike - Bass & Vox
Darran - Guitars & Vox
Bevan - Drums (NZ)
Tim - Drums (UK)
Influences: We like (you can make up your own mind if they are an influence)Pinback, Velvet Undergound, 3ds, early Mercury Rev, early Dandy Warhols, Sparklehorse, Bailterspace, Calla, Yo La Tengo, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Mogwai, The Beta Band, Toy Love, The Pixies, The Flaming Lips, Straitjacket Fits, Lou Reed, Fugazi (one of us in particular) The Tindersticks (again, one of us in particular), Pavement, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (although I believe they have dropped the "Jon Spencer" part), P.J. Harvey, BarnardÂ´s Star, HDU, and well...a whole lot more.
Record Label: Powertool Records (distribution only)
Type of Label: None

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New (ish) Track

Hi Ho! A new (ish) Rangers track will be released in Feb/March of this year on the Bulletholes 3 complilation from Powertool Records. The track is called "10 Speed" and is us doing pop-punk and featur...
Posted by Dead Pan Rangers on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:29:00 PST

Mug shots

Photos of our gig at Gleis 22 are now up. Thanks to Inge Fisch. Check out Tim's awesome drum face...
Posted by Dead Pan Rangers on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:15:00 PST

And then there were four...

Well Hi! November 24th at Gleis 22: A night of firsts. First gig with Tim, our new drummer. First gig with Hana our new keyboardist (sterling performance on short notice) First gig as a four piece Fir...
Posted by Dead Pan Rangers on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:59:00 PST

Gig? Never! We retired

Well. Seems our first gig this year and with our new, European drummer, Tim, will be supporting Okkervil River at the fabluous Gleis 22 in Muenster, Germany. (24/11/07 for those in the locale). ...
Posted by Dead Pan Rangers on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:35:00 PST

There’s nothing new like the old

Hi all For better or for worse I have put up a version of "Dwarfism" we did live to air on Generator some time ago for a NZ Music on Air Month thingy. It features our very own Nardene Berry on sh...
Posted by Dead Pan Rangers on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:05:00 PST

A new Rangers track...well...shrug...maybe

A blog or an excuse to write something...you decide... There is a chance a new but very old track will see daylight on a new compliation. The tracks is called "10 Speed" and has exisited in...
Posted by Dead Pan Rangers on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:13:00 PST

Pinback

Well, would love to say this is about us, but no; instead just a quick note to let you know that Pinback have another album due for release soon. Yippee!
Posted by Dead Pan Rangers on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:53:00 PST

Website Update

Well hello there! News: we have some. But being typically Dead Pan about it you will have to go to our website www.deadpanrangers.net to read it. Some of it is a little dated, but hey, som...
Posted by Dead Pan Rangers on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:10:00 PST

And up from the ashes came...

Hi StrangersOnce again we have managed to slip underneath the radar and after another (!) period of inactivity are looking to get things rolling again. To that end we have a new drummer, Tim Clu...
Posted by Dead Pan Rangers on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:41:00 PST