Hot Panda
- Location: Edmonton,
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- Bio: When you get compared, in the same breath, to everything from Daniel Johnson to the Talking Heads, you know you have a sound that's hard to pin down. Since ... (more)
- Bio: When you get compared, in the same breath, to everything from Daniel Johnson to the Talking Heads, you know you have a sound that's hard to pin down. Since their formation during the particularly chilly winter of 2006, the members of Hot Panda (Maghan Campbell, Keith Olsen, Chris Connelly, and Heath Parsons) have yet to sit down and have the discussion that goes: "So, what should we sound like?". The result is a swath of tunes that sound like anything and everything. Brit pop, gypsy swing, opera solos, Robert Pollard style lo-fi jangles, glammy Roxy Music keyboards, and "melodies that will be impossible to dislodge from your temporal cortex" (ChartAttack), all find their home in the music of Hot Panda...sometimes all in the same song!
After the recording of their 2007 EP "Whale Headed Girl," Hot Panda took to the road, and I guess you could say the road took to them! The band hasn't looked back since, ever wheeling over Canada in a questionable 1977 ambulance, taking their rambunctiously theatrical live show to "kids who like to dance" all over the nation. In February 2008, Hot Panda took the time to travel to Winnipeg and record their first full length record, Volcano...Bloody Volcano!, with Ryan McVeigh at Mid Ocean Studios, which will be coming out on Mint Records one year later, on February 10, 2009!
If you are reading this, which you are, you might be listening to our shiny little 7" that came out in June on Mint records to tie you over until the full length comes out...you'll be able to buy it on-line at www.maplemusic.com, or at shows only, along with our Whale Headed Girl EP...that's some sweet limited edition shiz!! Keep your eyes open for Hot Panda at SXSW this March, as well as Canadian Music Week in Toronto, also in March, and if you live in Edmonton, Hot Panda'll be having a CD release party on Valentine's Day...Romantic!
Also, we welcome new friends...even if it is in the superficial myspace way! If we don't know you just send us a little note and let us know why you want to be our friend! (less)
