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Panda Riot

About Me

Panda Riot is now a 3 piece hailing from Chicago, IL. They create tiny sonic bliss-outs and swirl-pop sing- a longs. Panda Riot is: Brian, Rebecca & Justin.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/17/2005
Band Website: www.pandariot.com
Band Members: Rebecca-Brian-Justin-Drum Machine
Influences: portishead, my bloody valentine, liz phair (pre sellout), beach boys, helium, magnetic fields, pixies, boards of canada, mary timony, tortoise, slint, june of '44, shugie otis, digable planets, stereolab, slowdive, the colorfield theory, mark rothko, Salinger, Chris Marker, loveliescrushing, the baby cats, motown, the field mice, the pastels, smashing pumkins, tricky, henry's dress, apples in stereo, neutral milk hotel, mark rothko, salinger, franny and zooey, sad since sunday, epmd, rakim, vincent gallo, polvo, wong kar wai, midnight cowboy, nightime, pet sounds, epmd, wire, spiritualized, spacemen 3, mogwai, jesus and mary chain, slowdive, nick drake, yo la tengo, dump, bill fox, guided by voices, built to spill, modest mouse, debussy.
Sounds Like: portishead, my bloody valentine, liz phair (pre sellout), beach boys, helium, magnetic fields, pixies, boards of canada, mary timony, tortoise, slint, june of '44, shugie otis, digable planets, stereolab, slowdive, the colorfield theory, mark rothko, Salinger, Chris Marker, loveliescrushing, the baby cats, motown, the field mice, the pastels, smashing pumkins, tricky, henry's dress, apples in stereo, neutral milk hotel, mark rothko, salinger, franny and zooey, sad since sunday, epmd, rakim, vincent gallo, polvo, wong kar wai, midnight cowboy, nightime, pet sounds, epmd, wire, spiritualized, spacemen 3, mogwai, jesus and mary chain, slowdive, nick drake, yo la tengo, dump, bill fox, guided by voices, built to spill, modest mouse, debussy.

Record Label: distribution: (US) tonevendor (Japan) Disk Union
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Obama Inauguration Party @ Subterranean January 23rd

OK OK this should be pretty nice. Friday, January 23rd @ Subterranean here in Chicago. It's 4 bands and something like 50 visual artists all coming together to celebrate Obama's Inauguration. We're al...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:36:00 GMT

Panda Riot nominated for favorite Chicago music acts of 2008

Panda Riot nominated for favorite Chicago music acts of 2008! Go ahead and vote!http://www.thedelimagazine. com/chicago/snacks.php
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:34:00 GMT

Panda Riot Blog

http://pandariot.com/handmade/News.html
Posted by on Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:44:00 GMT

Recording Northern Automatic Music

So I guess its time to mention that we're starting to record a new album tentatively called "Northern Automatic Music."We already have a bunch of songs completed.....so far itsNorthern Automatic Music...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:41:00 GMT

Athens Popfest

The Athens Popfest was awesome. You would just wander around town and end up catch some amazing band's set. So cool. Anyway there's a couple videos (MIA cover of Paper Planes, A fragment for the Metro...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:40:00 GMT

like flowers @ night remix

Check out the remix Stefan Clark did for us of "like flowers @ Night," up on youtube. Really cool take on things.
Posted by on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:37:00 GMT

Remix Magazine review

PANDA RIOTShe Dares All Things (Panda Riot)Oh no! Pandas! Run!Chicago's Panda Riot honors its shoegaze roots with a gauzy and energetic debut à la Asobi Seksu. She Dares All Things teeters on high-end...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 16:26:00 GMT

columbia chronicle interview

columbia chronicle interviewhttp://www.columbiachronicle.com/paper/arts.php?id= 4771
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:10:00 GMT

Self Storage Compilation

self storage compilation volume 1 tracklistsunday night- le renair phase- monoclepanda riot-like flowers at nightghost train-thrushesdo what you love-soundpoolrebirth-project skywardwhere’d you ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:08:00 GMT

Panda Riot live on WPRB 103.3 Princeton

Check out our radio show that aired in early Marchhttp://keepingscoreathome.com/?p=348
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:07:00 GMT