http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7402061&rws=%2Fjapanther%2Ftop-tracks.rssIan Vanek and Matt Reilly were students at New York's Pratt Institute when they started playing together as Japanther in 2001. Though Vanek mans the drums and Reilly plays mostly bass, both sing and manipulate a battery of synthesizer and tape effects to achieve the band's noisy art rock fusion. Their debut, a homemade CD-R titled <i>The Last of the Living Land Pirates</i>, appeared in 2001, but the first widely available release, the <i>South of Northport</i> EP, came the following year. Between 2002 and 2007 they stayed stayed busy by releasing six LPs and several EPs, touring widely, and collaborating on a handful of acclaimed multi-media projects. - Nate CavalieriNoise Rocken720Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:04:57 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7402061&rws=%2Fjapanther%2Ftop-tracks.rss Ian Vanek and Matt Reilly were students at New York's Pratt Institute when they started playing together as Japanther in 2001. Though Vanek mans the drums and Reilly plays mostly bass, both sing and manipulate a battery of synthesizer and tape effects to achieve the band's noisy art rock fusion. Their debut, a homemade CD-R titled <i>The Last of the Living Land Pirates</i>, appeared in 2001, but the first widely available release, the <i>South of Northport</i> EP, came the following year. Between 2002 and 2007 they stayed stayed busy by releasing six LPs and several EPs, touring widely, and collaborating on a handful of acclaimed multi-media projects. - Nate Cavalieri http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.16392887&variant=play&rws=%2Fjapanther%2Ftop-tracks.rss Noise Rock Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 Top Tracks by Japanther on Rhapsody Online 16392887 tra.16392887 Japanther art.7402061 0.99 Skuffed Up My Huffy alb.16390544 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/2/5/7/4/1104752_170x170.jpg 2007-09-11 00:00:00.0 2007-09-11 00:00:00.0 true See Evil tra.16392887 112000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.16392887&variant=play&rws=%2Fjapanther%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.16392887&variant=data&rws=%2Fjapanther%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.7416904&rws=%2Fjapanther%2Ftop-tracks.rss Noise Rock Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Japanther on Rhapsody Online 7416904 tra.7416904 Japanther art.7402061 0.0 Master Of 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