What’s That Noise?

Michelle da Silva

Hot Panda

Edmonton’s Hot Panda serves up large plates of kitschy, catchy, young, lo-fi pop-rock. The quartet, who describe themselves as “the square root of the Pogues times Iggy Pop over Supergrass, to the power of a pod of whales,” recorded an EP in 2007 called Whale Headed Girl and grabbed some attention with their gypsy-like mash-up of garage rock. The band traveled to Winnipeg this February to record their first full-length but have yet to release it. While you wait, check out the band as they tour across Canada this summer! To check out Hot Panda’s summer concert schedule, visit the band’s MySpace page.