Tuesday, April 12 2011
Panda Bear: Tomboy
One-fourth of the Animal Collective follows up his miraculous Person Pitch with a collection of mood pieces that suppresses his effusions into a consistent shade of gray.
Friday, November 5 2010
Moogfest: 29 October 2010 - Asheville, NC
25,000 Halloween revelers enjoy festival honoring Bob Moog with 60 bands over three days.
Thursday, September 16 2010
Hopscotch Music Festival: 9-11 September 2010 - Raleigh, North Carolina
Well curated, organized and executed, the inaugural Hopscotch Music Festival announced the arrival of a new stop on the summer festival circuit.
Thursday, March 4 2010
Pantha Du Prince: Black Noise
Ignore the Panda Bear collaboration and the swapping of Dial Records for Rough Trade; this is not Pantha Du Prince's indie voucher. It's as cold and arcane a space as ever, if not moreso.
Monday, January 11 2010
Animal Collective: Campfire Songs
Animal Collective's version of sitting on the porch and strumming the day away is actually quite cohesive and pleasant.
Friday, May 23 2008
Animal Collective: Water Curses
It’s been a full half-decade since Animal Collective came to prominence, bridging the gap between Brian Wilson and avant-garde tribal chant.
Friday, July 13 2007
Panda Bear
Panda Bear presides over his samplers like a priest at the pulpit, stirring the seated crowd with bits of loop-based lunacy. It's clear: this boy was born to stand before a packed set of pews.
Monday, March 26 2007
Good Times, Other Realities: A Conversation with Panda Bear
Whether with Animal Collective, through his solo work, or via a handful of other projects, Noah Lennox (or Panda Bear) makes a kind of disruptively joyful, emotionally affecting music operate on some sort of limbic plane to change your mood.
Panda Bear: Person Pitch
Animal Collective's Noah Lennox returns for his third solo outing. The tunes are fantastic, but their thrill is not without limits.
Friday, October 8 2004
Panda Bear: Young Prayer
Panda Bear (née Noah Lennox, one-half of Animal Collective’s genetic makeup) retreats indoors, seeking to trade Sung Tongs’ projectile song-storms for a more reflective catharsis.
