Hot Panda

Playing music that matches each catchy hook with an even bigger sonic risk has always come naturally to Vancouver, Canada's Hot Panda. 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 has been on quite a tear. The band has released two critically acclaimed full length albums, and literally driven four tour vans into the ground, having toured their ferocious live show across North America over 10 times, as well as completing a tour of Europe in 2009 opening for notorious Detroit rockers The Von Bondies; and another tour of Europe in the fall of 2011 playing the Reeperbahn festival in Hamburg, as well as dates in France, Austria and the UK. The band has played some of North America's premier showcase festivals, including South By South West in Austin (where they were selected by Esquire Magazine as one of fifteen hot new emerging artists of the 2011 festival), CMJ Music Marathon in New York City, Pop Montreal, Canadian Music Festival and North By North East in Toronto, Sled Island in Calgary, and Halifax Pop Explosion. 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 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 mid 2012.
Buying our tunes: 'How Come I'm Dead' and 'Volcano.Bloody Volcano!' are available on CD and vinyl in an independent record store near you, or if you are so inclined, on iTunes, and Zunior.com! We also have a fancy 7", the Cold Hands/Chapped Lips single, that you can buy at www.maplemusic.com and at shows only- sweet limited edition! Whale Headed Girl EP is forever out of print, so if you own it, you are one of maybe 500 people, and we applaud you!



CONTACT
Band: hotpandaband@gmail.com
Management: tommyhawkwilson@mac.com
Label: Mint Records, info@mintrecs.com, www.mintrecs.com
Booking:
Canada/US: hotpandaband@gmail.com
Germany, Switzerland, Austria: nik@breathinghole.ch
UK:
Legal: Roger Cramer, roger@crameresq.com
Canadian Press- Kim Juneja- kim@indoorrecess.com
US Press: Nathan Walker, nathan@riotactmedia.com
UK Distibution: Shellshock, info@shellshock.co.uk
UK Press: Yvette Ray, msyvetteray@gmail.com
BENELUX Distribution: Sonic Rendezvous, info@sonicrendezvous.com
Germany Distribution: Broken Silence, vorname.nachname@brokensilence.de
Spain Distribution: Locomotive Music, administracion@locomotivemusic.com



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