southern records

Death Sentence: PANDA! formed in February 2004 and played their first show a month later. After playing numerous one-off shows across the US the band were asked by electro-rap artist Gold Chains to accompany him on his nation-wide tour in 2004. Debut album,Puppy, Kitty Or Both was released in 2005 and was met with glowing reviews and radio coverage. London's famously hip Rough Trade store even chose the track to feature on their Counter Culture compilation. Prior to the release of their second record, Festival Of Ghosts, the band managed to complete a comprehensive tour of the States, covering both coasts and culminating in a performance at the End Times Festival, which celebrates the world's most eccentric and experimental artists.

They add a cartoonish sense of drama to the trad Bay Area post-punk sound, using nothing more than a flute, a pitch-shifted clarinet, a drum kit and a whole lotta hollering. Their music draws heavily on traditional Chinese and Korean folk music, ragtime, New Orleans- style marching bands and good ol' hardcore punk. In the past year, they have toured Europe and undertaken a tour of the US west coast with Burmese and Fuckwolf.