Bear9 performed with Buckaroo Bonsai, Wednesday February 25 at FIU Frost Art Museum. The performance was indoors, during Target Wednesday After Hours, which the Frost hosts every week.
Buckaroo Bonsai opened up, a 2 man band of Julian Squares, check them out on myspace: www.myspace.com/juliansquares. They sound a bit like The Strokes and are a fun toe-tappin' experience.
And then there was Bear9, which actually currently consists of about 7 "bears". The band's distinct indie-rock style combines a lot of fun instrumentality (whistling, xylophone, and a lot of tambourine) with heavy lyrics, some laden with metaphor and personal meaning, and in some songs a very relatable melancholiness. Guest bears playing: Nick Deluca of ; Sirens & Sealions, John Olin of Postmail on keys and vocals, and other friends of the band, Eli on the drums, and Flor Diaz vocalizing. The band gave out demos for donations, sold bear hoodies for their homeless fund, Bears Without a Cave, and rocked the heck out of that museum.
-F.D.
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