Panda Bear's People Party

For their "One Week Only" feature, P4K is now offering live footage of Panda Bear's 2007 summer tour. While the DIY video of Panda Bear, WZT Hearts, Eric Copeland, and Tickley Feather performing live is pretty great, this tour documentary has already been made available for free.

Mike, of EatTapes, originally created the documentary with full intention of giving it away as a free DVD. While complications got in the way of allowing it to be a physical release, Mike hi-jacked the power of the "internet" to implement his original intentions.

Go here, for several ways in which to download this free DVD of Panda Bear and friends playing live. The highlight of the film is Panda Bear's 2007 homecoming show at the Ottobar. Next time you can catch him there is May 10th, as he will be performing with the full collective of animals. Tickets are all kinds of gone for this one though.

Lean Horse Marathon

New Baltimore music from up North, Lean Horse Marathon is a healthy dose of lo-fidelity noise folk. LP1 EP is the debut album from this new solo artist, and you can stream it here exclusively in its entirety below.

Hums, crashes and echoes of all varieties are rocked, but always tearing back to that noisey dream pop sound which one can't resist. The EP as a whole sounds like if Elliott Smith and Bradford Cox had joined the Microphones to record, and Panda Bear's laptop treatment got involved somewhere in the process. Not to mention, Skinny Pony Race clearly has a ton of influences locally.

Internationally, Lean Horse Marathon just got signed to Netherlands label Rack and Ruin, who will be releasing the EP online. Stream the whole thing below, and look for another album in the coming months.

What Do a 14 Year Old Asian Kid, Dan Deacon, and Footage of a Giant Panda Walking Around to Salsa Music Have In Common?

They all can be found on the new video bar! I added a feature that randomly chooses videos based on the keywords I gave it, and rotates constantly. Naturally, I typed in the names of a bunch of artists that have roots in Baltimore.

However the keywords are searched on all kinds of miscellaneous sources including Youtube. This allows us to watch anything from actual footage of a panda bear, to some random young'un fondle the Spank Rock album and give us his commentary.

In fact this clip provides some riveting insight to the record including a chronological walk through of each song's title, quotes like "so pretty much this album is really explicative there's cuss words like pretty much all the time", and a recommendation that you can probably pick it up at Best Buy for, like, 10 bucks.

Um, thanks.

The only other disclaimer is that I do not pick each specific video, only the keywords it searches for. So whether you enjoy watching clips of an animated lizard ramble on about chairs and floors he didn't pay for, or you like music, this new feature should have ya' covered.