Mar 20, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Pitchfork Music Festival has announced their 2023 lineup. The Smile, Big Thief, and Bon Iver will be headlining. Other acts include Weyes Blood, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Alvvays, Nation of Language, and more. More

Mar 20, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) and Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember, formerly of Spacemen 3) released a new album, Reset, last year via Domino. Now they have shared a video for the album’s “In My Body” and announced some new summer U.S. tour dates. More

Nov 14, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) and Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember, formerly of Spacemen 3) released a new album, Reset, in August via Domino. Now they have announced an expanded edition of the album, shared a new video for the album’s “Whirlpool,” and shared one of the bonus tracks, “Everything’s Been Leading to This (Songbook Instrumental).” More

Aug 12, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) and Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember, formerly of Spacemen 3) have released a new album, Reset, today via Domino. They have also shared a video for the album track “Danger.” More

Aug 05, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 30th Songs of the Week of 2022. There were lots of strong contenders this week, although there was a pretty clear #1 and our #2 was a new band we’d never even heard of before this week. We settled on a Top 12 again this week, like last week. More

Aug 03, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) and Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember, formerly of Spacemen 3) have shared a video for a new single, “Edge Of The Edge.” It is the latest release from their forthcoming collaborative album, Reset, which will be out on August 12 via Domino. More

Jul 15, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 27th Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a strong week for new tracks. Really any of the Top 6 could’ve been our #1 song. We settled on a Top 12 this week. More

Jul 13, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) and Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember, formerly of Spacemen 3) have announced a collaborative album, Reset, which will be out on August 12 via Domino. They have also shared an animated video for a new album single, “Go On.” More

Dec 13, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Animal Collective have shared a video for their new single “Walker.” It is the latest release from their forthcoming album, Time Skiffs, which will be out on February 4, 2022 via Domino. More

Oct 09, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) released a new album, Buoys, back in February via Domino. Now he has shared a brand new song, “playing the long game,” via a video for the track. More

Apr 10, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) released a new album, Buoys, back in February via Domino. Now he has shared a video for the album’s title track, “Buoys.” Danny Perez directed the video that features a French bulldog and a weird dating show. More

Mar 01, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 65, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Mitski on the front cover and boygenius (Julien Baker + Phoebe Bridgers + Lucy Dacus) on the back cover. More

Jan 18, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the second Songs of the Week of 2019. This week’s list includes tracks from freshly announced albums (Strand of Oaks, The Drums, Tamaryn, C Duncan, Glen Hansard), as well as by artists who have already made this list with previous songs from their upcoming albums (Telekinesis, Piroshka, Cass McCombs). More

Jan 14, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) is releasing a new album, Buoys, on February 8 via Domino. Previously he shared its first single, “Dolphin” (which was one of our Songs of the Week), as well as a trailer for the album. Now Panda Bear has shared another song from Buoys, “Token,” via a video for the song directed by, and starring, fellow musician Dean Blunt. More

Nov 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) is releasing a new album, Buoys, on February 8, 2019 via Domino. It was announced last week. Previously he shared its first single, “Dolphin” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Now Panda Bear has announced some U.S. tour dates for 2019 and shared a trailer for Buoys that features snippets of more songs from the album. More

Nov 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

There might still be nearly two months left in 2018, but 2019 album announcements have been coming hard and fast of late. The Top 10 of this week’s Songs of the Week is packed with first and second singles from albums due out next January or February, although not our #1, that album is due out next week. More

Nov 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) has announced a new album, Buoys, and shared its first single, “Dolphin.” More

Mar 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Animal Collective have announced a summer tour where they perform their 2004 album Sung Tongs in its entirety. As with how the album was recorded, the tour will only feature two of the band’s four members: Avey Tare (aka David Michael Portner) and Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox). More

Jan 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) is releasing a new EP, A Day With the Homies, this Friday (January 12) via Domino. It’s a limited 12-inch vinyl only EP. Now he has announced some tour dates. They go down in April and May and include some dates in North America and Europe. More

Nov 21, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) has announced a new EP, A Day With the Homies, to be released on January 12, 2018 via Domino. It’s a limited 12-inch vinyl only EP. Below are the EP’s tracklist and cover art, along with a statement from Lennox. More

Nov 20, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) has shared a video for “Crosswords,” the title track to his recent Crosswords EP. Mount Emult directed the fun and trippy video that essentially features lots of psychedelic images of a man dancing to the song. Watch it below. More

Oct 30, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) has shared a new 26-minute new mix of unreleased material via Soundcloud. It’s music that was recorded at the same time he made this year’s awesomely titled Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper. You can listen to it below. More

Aug 20, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Panda Bear has surprise released a brand new EP. The Crosswords EP is out now digitally via Apple Music and will be released in CD and 12-inch form on November 13 via Domino. It contains three brand new songs and reworked versions of “Crosswords” (from this year’s awesomely titled Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper) and “The Preakness” (originally released in demo form on the Tomboy box set). Here you can hear the new track “No Mans Land” via YouTube or the whole EP via Spotify. More

Jul 21, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Last weekend, Chicago hosted the annual Pitchfork Festival. Check out Annie Lesser’s shots from day one, featuring Natalie Prass, Jessica Pratt, ILOVEMAKONNEN, CHVRCHES,Mac Demarco, Tobias Jesso Jr, Panda Bear, Steve Gunn, Iceage, and Wilco. More

Jun 25, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Panda Bear has announced a remix EP due for digital release next week via Domino and has shared Pete Rock’s remix of “Crosswords.” PBVSGR Remixes EP collects five remixes of songs that originally appeared on Panda Bear’s latest album, the awesomely titled Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper. More

May 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

The concept for Panda Bear’s video for “Come to Your Senses” is fairly simple. A stationary camera is set up on a street in Lisbon (the adopted hometown of Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox) and the image cross fades throughout the day, capturing all the people walking down the road. And yet there’s also something hypnotic about it. More

May 01, 2015 By Trevor Flynn

Following the release of his widely acclaimed album Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper, Panda Bear, otherwise known as Noah Lennox, has made a remix of his song “Come to Your Senses” available. More

Apr 08, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Taken from his new solo LP Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper, Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox, has premiered a brand new music video for his latest single, “Tropic of Cancer.” More

Jan 30, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Recently releasing his brand new solo album, Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper, Animal Collective’s Panda Bear, a.k.a. Noah Lennox, has shared a special mini-documentary detailing the making of the record. More

Jan 15, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Last night Panda Bear stopped by The Tonight Show to play Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper track, “Boys Latin.” More

Jan 07, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Can’t get enough Panda Bear? We know the feeling. More

Jan 06, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

For the past several days Animal Collective’s Panda Bear has been debuting brand new tracks from his forthcoming solo album Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper by way of numerous international radio stations. More

Jan 05, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Starting yesterday and finishing tomorrow, Animal Collective’s Panda Bear has been premiering tracks from his forthcoming solo album Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper on radio stations across the world. More

Jan 02, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

On Jan. 13 Animal Collective member Panda Bear, a.k.a. Noah Lennox, will release his brand new solo album Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper. More

Dec 19, 2014 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the Best of 2014 Issue, which is about to hit newsstands and will be out all of January and February. It features St. Vincent on the cover and interviews with some of the artists behind 2014’s best albums. More

Dec 15, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Panda Bear has premiered a brand new music video for his latest single “Boys Latin.” More

Oct 22, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Surprise! Panda Bear has released a new EP. More

Jun 09, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Recently finishing a month-long tour through the U.S. previewing material from his upcoming solo album, tentatively titled Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, Panda Bear has announced another leg of shows set to take place later this fall. More

Mar 31, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Panda Bear tour dates? Don’t mind if we do! More

Mar 18, 2014 By Matt Fink

Nirvana, Frank Sinatra, J Dilla—those were the three artists Noah Lennox named as the main influences for his fourth full-length solo album, 2011’s Tomboy. Of course, if you could hear any of those three acts in that album’s stripped-down blend of blissed-out psychedelic pop and drone/dub production techniques, you were probably listening to a different album or under the influence of heavy pharmaceuticals. More

Feb 22, 2014 By Matt Fink

Tentatively titled Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, Noah Lennox faces the challenge of once again reinventing a sound that is widely imitated but identifiably his own. More

Dec 20, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Frequent Animal Collective visual-artist Danny Perez has unveiled an official music video for Panda Bear‘s Tomboy standout track “You Can Count On Me.” More

Nov 03, 2011 By Laura Studarus

As previously announced, Panda Bear released a deluxe version of Tommy—with all proceeds benefiting The American Cancer Society. More

Jul 26, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Panda Bear has announced that April release Tomboy will be re-released as a deluxe edition box set October 31 via Paw Tracks. More

Jul 12, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Panda Bear performed on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on Monday night, playing “You Can Count on Me.” More

Jul 11, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Arctic Monkeys have announced more tour dates in support of June release Suck It and See. More

Jun 07, 2011 By John Everhart

Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox, has released a clip for Tomboy standout track “Slow Motion.“We have the video and the details of an intimate NYC show. More

Jun 02, 2011 By Laura Studarus

On September 25, TV on the Radio and Arctic Monkeys are set to rock the Hollywood Bowl. We have the details. More

Apr 19, 2011 By John Everhart

Animal Collective have announced a summer U.S. tour, including a date at their 2009 album’s namesake Merriweather Post Pavilion. We have the details. More

Apr 04, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Hey did you hear Panda Bear has a new album come out? Shocking right? Now you can hear it in its entirety. More

Mar 30, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Everyone’s favorite celebrity “animal” (take that Bronx Zoo Cobra!) Panda Bear has announced a special Record Store Day bundle. We have the details. More

Feb 24, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Continuing the build of anticipation for his forthcoming solo album Tomboy scheduled for release on April 12, Animal Collective’s Panda Bear is set to release yet another single off the album. More

Feb 11, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Panda Bear offered his first free look at new album Tomboy today. We have the track. More

Feb 11, 2011 By Mark Redfern and Laura Studarus

Under the Radar’s Winter 2011 issue is about to hit stands. The cover features Death Cab for Cutie, who gave writer Matt Fink insight into the band’s forthcoming album, Codes and Keys (due out in May). The issue also includes interviews with Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, The Dears, The Decemberists, Destroyer, The Dodos, Duran Duran,Elbow, Iron and Wine, Lykke Li, R.E.M., Telekinesis, Toro Y Moi, The Antlers, The Big Pink, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Jens Lekman, Okkervil River, Panda Bear, Vivian Girls, Anna Calvi, Porcelain Raft, Smith Westerns, Yuck, and more.

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Feb 04, 2011 By Lauren Barbato

Panda Bear presents two listening parties for new album Tomboy. We have the details. More

Jan 28, 2011 By Lauren Barbato

Synth-folk master Noah Lennox upped the hype for Panda Bear’s Tomboy with the unveiling of the album’s cover art. More

Jan 21, 2011 By Lauren Barbato

Today, Panda Bear released the official track list for long-awaited fourth studio album, Tomboy. We have the details. More

Jan 14, 2011 By Laura Studarus

It’s the album that’s been on the tip of everyone’s tongue…forever. Or so it seems. Today Panda Bear’s long awaited follow-up to 2007’s Person Pitch, finally received a release date. More

Nov 11, 2010 By Laura Studarus

The Panda Bear singles parade continues with new release “Last Night at the Jetty,” out December 6th via FatCat. More

Sep 03, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Mar 31, 2010 By Hong Le

Prepare to add Hopscotch to the music festival list. Announced by The Independent Weekly, Hopscotch will have 120 bands in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina for three days, September 9 to 11. The lineup will include Panda Bear, Broken Social Scene, Public Enemy, The Love Language, No Age, Akron/Family, and Atlas Sound, to name but a few. More

May 07, 2015 By Matt Fink

To listen to Ariel Pink talk is to hear him think—that much becomes immediately clear a few minutes into his conversation with Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear). Ask him a question and what follows is an avalanche of unfiltered thoughts, some seemingly brilliant, others highly questionable, and nearly all of them provocative to some extent. More

Mar 18, 2014 By Matt Fink

Nirvana, Frank Sinatra, J Dilla—those were the three artists Noah Lennox named as the main influences for his fourth full-length solo album, 2011’s Tomboy. Of course, if you could hear any of those three acts in that album’s stripped-down blend of blissed-out psychedelic pop and drone/dub production techniques, you were probably listening to a different album or under the influence of heavy pharmaceuticals. More

Feb 21, 2014 By Matt Fink

Tentatively titled Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, Noah Lennox faces the challenge of once again reinventing a sound that is widely imitated but identifiably his own. More

Jan 22, 2018 By Charles Steinberg

The exclusivity of a vinyl-only release carries with it a certain temptation. It gives wax heads another reason to visit whatever record shop remains in their town on Saturday afternoon and it incentivises all others straddling the fence and tired of feeling left out to get a turntable and join in.

Aug 21, 2015 By JR Moores

As if he hadn’t blessed us enough already with January’s beautiful Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper LP, Noah Lennox is back again already with a sweet little surprise Panda Bear EP of additional material. More

Jan 12, 2015 By Ryan E.C. Hamm

Noah Lennox is really good at making beautiful music, but you might be forgiven for forgetting this on occasion. Lennox’s band, Animal Collective, has spent much of its discography (Merriweather Post Pavilion a notable exception) hiding Lennox’s melodic gifts behind waves of atonal drone and challenging musicality-not necessarily a bad thing, in many instances, but it has the effect of making it a special thing to hear Lennox on his own with his Panda Bear project. More

Apr 15, 2011 By Jim Scott

While “You Can Count On Me,” the first song on Panda Bear’s Tomboy, is about having children and wanting to keep them safe (“Want to put a bubble ‘round you/Like a force field switch”), it could just as easily be read as a response to the pressure of following up Person Pitch. More