Panda Riot, yesterday's band, refers to themselves as a "dreampop band from the center of your heart." Well, I don't know if they came from the middle of my thumper, but they sure have put themselves there in the last 24 hours. First of all, who doesn't love pandas? They eat shoots and leaves and stuff, providing not only a great joke punchline but also a valuable lesson about the importance of proper punctuation. And more importantly, who doesn't love a band that sees you joking about their name and tweets a response that they are "totally a game!" Panda Riot, cheers to you.
Hailing from Chicago, the band has female vocals that manage to toe the line between sassy and wispy in the same sort of way that made me such a teenage fan of early Lush albums. Technically, I suppose the music could be called shoegaze, but the cleanly twinkling lead guitar occasionally peeks out enough over the distorted swirl of sound to keep it floating. But, don't take my word for it, hear it for yourself. Below is a taste of their song "Serious Radical Girls" courtesy of their website pandariot.com.
Cream Wolf is a game created by the insane minds of the folks over at Adult Swim. Basically, it looks a hell of a lot like the graphics on an old Atari 2600 game (can someone please tell me how to get to the part of the Porky's game where I get to see the 8-bit boobies?), and succeeding at it is almost just as impossible. But essentially, the gist is that you are an icecream truck-driving werewolf who lures his victims with your creepy truck music, then fattens them up so you can eat them when it gets dark. Um, yeah, so basically...awesome. Here's a screenshot:
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