February 28, 2025 • For most of the '00s, Panda Bear helped define the sound of youthful, ramshackle indie rock. On Noah Lennox's eighth album, Sinister Grift, the artist focuses on the shifting ...

On March 16, National Panda Day draws attention to one of the world’s unique bears. Pandas are also one of the world’s most endangered and adored animals. Conservationists and animal lovers ...

Two decades since debuting as the masked-and-nicknamed drummer and vocalist of Animal Collective, Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear has led so many creative lives, navigated so many different styles, and ...

Sinister Grift, the eighth Panda Bear album, finds the now 46-year-old Lennox negotiating a bold new world: middle age. That little girl is now nearly an adult (and collaborator on the album's ...

For most of the '00s, Panda Bear and Animal Collective scribbled outside the lines of indie rock and made up their own rules, releasing albums that flouted expectations. Animal Collective built its ...

If ever we needed a reminder of human ingenuity and artistic integrity, it’s now. All of this is to say, I don’t think there’s ever been a better time for a new Panda Bear release to drop. In a career ...

It has been a few years since we heard from a lone Panda Bear, the ever-evolving vehicle for Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox. While the past few years for the artist have been defined by ...

Two weeks after its release, Sinister Grift has imprinted itself as one of the tightest, most illuminating, and intentionally crafted records in Panda Bear’s discography – and arguably the entire ...

Panda Bear's 2007 masterpiece Person Pitch is on my desert island list of all-time favourite albums, and while I doubt Sinister Grift will ever occupy the same echelon, it's another compelling ...

It’s the kind of straightforward, plainly beautiful song a younger Panda Bear might have admired but wouldn’t have dared to try; its nakedness is startling. On their respective records ...

Severe threats from humans have left just over 1,800 pandas in the wild. The panda, with its distinctive black and white coat, is adored by the world and considered a national treasure in China. This ...

Animal Collective's Panda Bear released a new solo album this past week with contributions from all members of the band. If you are at all familiar with 2000s indie rock or early internet music ...