Panthers is an American

United States

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 rock

Rock music

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 band from Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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, New York

New York City

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. The Village Voice described them as "groundbreaking dissonant HC (hardcore

Hardcore punk

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) with Rolling Stones swagger." Three members were previously in the hardcore band Orchid

Orchid (band)

Orchid was a screamo band from Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Considered by many to be one of the pioneers of the "screamo" sound, Orchid combined this with a post-modern aesthetic, releasing several extended play and splits as well as three LPs...

. Panthers have released four records. The most recent two, The Trick and Things Are Strange were released on Vice Records. Prior to that they released via Dim Mak Records and Troubleman Unlimited.

They began as a side project by members of the bands Orchid, Turing Machine

Turing Machine (band)

Turing Machine is an instrumental rock band formed in New York City in 1998 by Justin Chearno and Scott DeSimon, late of DC's noise-rockers Pitchblende and Gerhardt 'Jerry' Fuchs, who had moved to New York to play with Bitch Magnet guitarist Jon Fine's new band, Vineland...

, and The Red Scare.

Kip Uhlhorn went on to form the band Cloudland Canyon with Simon Wojan of King Khan & the Shrines.

Band members

• Kip Uhlhorn (guitar)
• Justin Chearno (guitar)
• Jeff Salane (drums)
• Jayson Green (vocals)
• Geoff Garlock (bass)

Releases

• Are You Down?? (Troubleman Unlimited, 2002)
• Let's Get Serious EP (Dim Mak, 2003)
• Things Are Strange (Vice, 2004)
• The Trick (Vice, 2007)

External links

• Interview
• Vice Records
• 77 Boadrum Site Profile Viva Radio, September 2007 (Flash
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