Having adopted (for reasons they have been unwilling to explain) the curious names of Avey Tare and Panda Bear, high school friends David Portner (USA; vocals/guitar) and Noah Lennox (b. USA; vocals/drums) evoke the strange and the magical via a music that has traceable precedents in the rituals of shamanism, the textures/structures of minimal techno, and the gentle folk roc
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Deerhunter
- 27% match to Panda Bear
Formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2001 by Bradford Cox (1982, Athens, Georgia, USA; vocals) and Moses Archuleta (keyboards), the early line-up of this US art punk band also featured Justin Bosworth (b. 1980, d. 2004; bass) and Dan Walton (drums). Guitarist Colin Mee quickly replaced the latter, and with Archuleta doubling on drums the quartet recorded a split 7-inch vinyl singl
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Black Dice
- 20% match to Panda Bear
Formed during 1997 and originally coming from Providence, Rhode Island (before relocating to Brooklyn, New York a year later), this provocative US outfit is regularly compared to Japanese noise rockers Melt Banana and the Boredoms. Black Dice made their debut in 1998 with the 7-inch, ‘Semen Of The Sun’. The band’s early incarnation included Bjorn Copeland (guitar
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Cobbled from the ashes of several defunct Brooklyn-based outfits, Gang Gang Dance is a loose confederation of artists and musicians who explore a kind of modern-day tribalism through percussion-heavy, electronics-aided avant rock. Liz Bougatsos’s variously chanted and sung vocals evoke Middle Eastern sonorities as well as modern rockers like Kate Bush. The group’s liv
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No Age
- 16% match to Panda Bear
Formed in 2005 from the ashes of the short-lived US noise rockers Wives, this Los Angeles, California-based duo comprises Randy Randall (guitar) and Dean Allen Spunt (drums/vocals). In March, they took the unusual (in a digital age) step of releasing five limited edition vinyl-only EPs on five different labels. Although there were traces of the punky thrash of Wives in tracks s
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Dan Deacon
- 12% match to Panda Bear
28 August 1981, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Deacon grew up in Baltimore, with a great passion and talent for music. As soon as he graduated in the mid-90s he enrolled at the world-renowned Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, New York, where he played in many experimental bands. His love of the avant garde pushed him to work with musicians playing everything from grindco
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Girls
- 12% match to Panda Bear
Although tangentially associated with the US ‘freak folk’ movement, the Brooklyn, New York City-based Akron/Family combines acoustic-orientated ballads, psychedelic freakouts, post rock jams, and free-form storms of sound to create something akin to a twenty-first century Grateful Dead. (Their communal peace/love vibe and hirsute qualities do not hurt in this respect
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