The five-piece band Lazy Panda lumbered its way into KFAI’s “Live
From Studio Five!” this past Wednesday, and played a great set of ‘90s-styled
alternative rock. Lazy Panda—consisting of Bryan Peterson on vocals, Dillin O’Dell
on Bass, Youssef Rddad and Ray Van Lith on Guitar, and Justin Formico on drums—were
joined by the usual cast of characters: Doug the Thug, Dewglass, and Cher Dial.
From the start, Lazy Panda went right for the jugular,
playing loud and tight, sounding almost like a cross between punk and
rock-a-billy. If “punk-a-billy” wasn’t a genre before, it probably is now. They
played songs like “Chasing Cotton,” a boom-bopper named “Too Much for the Room,”
“I Got A Year,” the fan-favorite “Inferno Walkin’,” and a brand new tune called
“Noose.”
The band also talked
about how they got their name, which Peterson said isn’t a very interesting
story. The group used to be called Lazy Parade. Then they changed it: “We knew
we wanted to be lazy,” said Peterson, “we just didn’t know about the panda.”
Lazy Panda is playing
tonight (Friday) at the Skyway Theater on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis at
9:30, and you can check them out on Facebook and Reverb Nation for more of
their sounds.
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