Noah Lennox is one of the chief orchestrators of psych act, Animal Collective. Known as , Lennox creates visceral landscapes as if one was tripping on a potent cocktail of hallucinogens and good living.
Wednesday’s visit to “The Tonight Show” proved that aside from the aesthetics, Panda Bear was up to task of weirding everybody out in a “smoke your first joint in high school” type of way. Lennox’s hypnotic voice sailed blissfully along with his trippy beats and gonzo lighting on “Boys Latin.” The track comes off his latest album, “Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper,”
Panda Bear announced a few tour dates for this year earlier this week. There are only a few U.S. dates, and of those two are appearances at both Weekends of Coachella.
Panda Bear tour dates:
03-04 London, England – Electric Brixton *
03-05 Brussels, Belgium – Botanique *
03-06 Paris, France – La Gaîté Lyrique *
03-08 Zeewolde, Netherlands – Where the Wild Things Are Festival
03-10 Berlin, Germany – Berghain *
03-11 Lisbon, Portugal – Teatro Maria Matos
03-12 Braga, Portugal – GNRation
04-10 Las Vegas, NV – The Bunkhouse
04-11 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
04-12 Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
04-14 San Francisco, CA – The Independent
04-15 Santa Cruz CA – Coconut Grove Ballroom
04-16 Sonoma, CA – Gundlach Bundschu Winery
04-19 Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
05-08 Nashville, TN – Exit/In
05-09 Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
* with Jib Kidder
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Julio Enriquez is a Denver writer and photographer, editor of the Cause=Time blog and a regular contributor to Reverb
