I’m really not sure how to evaluate—or classify—Panda Riot’s, “Far & Near.”  The Chicago band’s synthbeat and shoegaze vocals may lull and disarm, but then a song like “When You Said, When I Said,” will cut in with razor guitar lines.  You may remember their awesome cover of MIA’s “Paper Planes” from back in 2008.  [...]

I decided to bust out my weekly musings on superdoings into print and moving media this week, because there’s just so darn much I wanna talk about! Please, give me comments if you like these features—I enjoy writing them, but I know that most of my regular readers come here for music . . . [...]