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About Me

Panama originally came together in Philadelphia, out of the still-smoldering ashes of local favorites Caterpillar, Moped, and Meringue. A Philly super-band of sorts, they've appeared on NPR discussing their lyrics and opinions on the city of brotherly love, and how it's changed in the past ten years. Critics often describe the band as an intersection of New Zealand kiwi-pop and Feelies/Unrest inspired indie. Two records have been recorded thus far. The first, self-titled, features a line-up of Gram (Meringue), Mike (Caterpillar), Kara (the Jane Anchor) and Mark Zepp. The second, an EP, has just been released. The line-up on the EP is Gram, John (Caterpillar) and Brenda (also of Caterpillar fame). More recently, Gram moved to Paris, France, but has continued playing at venues in Paris and has crafted new songs for an upcoming CD. The band currently features a '3/4 French' lineup of Fred, Alban, Joel and Gram.

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Member Since: 3/4/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/panamatheband
Band Members: Gram sings and plays guitar. Alban plays the bass. Fred plays the guitar and sings. Joel plays the drums. A rotating cast of musical greats have made up the live and recorded PANAMA in the past. These include: Brenda Defeo (Caterpillar), John McInerny (Caterpillar, Marcus Hook), Kara Lafty (Moped, Sonny Sixkiller, the Jane Anchor), Mark Zepp (Diving Board), Mike Lenert (Lettuce Prey, Caterpillar), Edis Tamuzs (Prisonshake), Frank Boscoe (Wimp Factor 14, Vehicle Flips) and Stephane Garry (Pokett).
Influences: A bit of Yuengling, teachers that cared and lots of travels across New Jersey/Pennsylvania, the Atlantic Ocean and the City of Light.
Sounds Like: Auckland, Hoboken, Kansas
Record Label: Two Street Recordings
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Panama plays La Mecanique Ondulatoire

Panama (Paris/Philadelphia) will be performing in concert with Kim (Bordeaux/Paris) at La Mecanique Ondulatoire on Wednesday, May 21st at 8:00 PM (sharp!). Panama plays indie-rock in the vein of the F...
Posted by Panama on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:52:00 PST

Panama in spring...

Howdy! Ok, so we’ve got a couple of shows coming up this spring here in Paris. The first is on Thursday, April 3rd at Le Vieux Leon - near Chatelet. We will be playing with our ...
Posted by Panama on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:18:00 PST

PANAMA at POP-IN, November 13th, 2007

Returning from a whirlwind tour of sold-out shows in Hungary, Romania and Croatia, PANAMA will be joining our friends CHEAP STAR for a night of jangly pop songs at the Pop-In in Paris. If all goes to ...
Posted by Panama on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:31:00 PST

Next Concert: March 6th, 2007

Panama's next concert will be at the Pop-In located on rue Amelot in Paris. Showtime is at 9 PM. This will be the first show with a new line-up, featuring Gram on guitar and voice, Fred on...
Posted by Panama on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:05:00 PST

Panama Concert in Paris: Abracadabar 29/10/2006

Gram from Panama will be playing a set at L'Abracadabar in Paris on the 29th of October. Other bands on the bill are Sawa and Aristide. L'Abracadabar, in addition to being fun to say, is a...
Posted by Panama on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:07:00 PST

No Comments

Is there a reason that no one has left us comments (with the exception of our excellent friend Davide Balula)? We're not looking for anything of the "thanks for the add" variety - but perhaps so...
Posted by Panama on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:54:00 PST

Anti-Matter

We've just put up a couple songs from the recently released Anti-Matter EP! The song 'Zero Zero' is about the zeros/oughts, etc - as well as the current state of society. The song 'Mudvill...
Posted by Panama on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:00:00 PST

At Home He's a Tourist

Welcome to the Panama blog on MySpace! We'll be adding lots of info as time goes by, but for now we'd like to invite readers to download the MP3s we've put up (more songs will be added shortly)....
Posted by Panama on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:01:00 PST