Hot Panda are Maghan Campbell (drums), Chris Connelly (vocals, guitar), Catherine Hiltz (bass), and Heath Parsons (keys, accordion); they make music that makes people dance and feel happy...simple.
Playing music that matches each catchy hook with an even bigger sonic risk has always come naturally HP. The band draws from any and every influence, playing indie pop that has no qualms matching Roxy Music style keyboards with a heartbreaking country dirge, and playing it with a punk rock spirit to boot. Since their signing to Canada's Mint Records in 2008, Hot Panda have been on somewhat of a roll; releasing two critically acclaimed full length albums, as well as completing a tour of Europe in 2009 opening for notorious Detroit rockers The Von Blondies.
The band has played some of North America's premier showcase festivals, including South By South West in Austin (where they were selected as one of fifteen hot new emerging artists of the 2011 festival by Esquire Magazine), CMJ Music Marathon in New York City, Pop Montreal, and Canadian Music Festival and North By North East in Toronto. They've also been happy to share the stage with bands such as Art Brut, The Raveonettes, Chad Van Gaalen, Tokyo Police Club, Electric 6, PS I Love You, Brasstronaut, Women, You Say Party!, and many more.
The band's releases have debuted at #1 on Canadian college charts, earned them a Hot Track of the Week selection in Rolling Stone Magazine (Chinatown Bus), an iTunes track of the week selection (Start Making Sense), and won Album of the Year at the 2010 Edmonton Music Awards (for How Come I'm Dead?).
The band has been invited to play the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg in September, 2011, and is currently recording a third album, once again to be produced by John Collins and David Carswell (Destroyer, New Pornographers, Stuart Murdoch, Tegan and Sarah), which will be released in Europe in early Spring, 2012.
Hot panda - Mindlessnesslessness by mon_is playlist
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