Photos by Stacie Joy
We finally got to see Puzzled Panther live last Sunday ... after hearing about them for the past 18 months or so.
The NYC band was part of the latest Show Brain show in Tompkins Square Park.
Victoria Espinoza and Kay Bontempo started PP as a duo. They continued to add firepower to their punky dance-floor tapestry with the addition of drummer Brian Chase, moonlighting from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs... and Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello, who signed PP to his Casa Gogol label.
Hütz described last Sunday's set as a "psychosleaze spectacle," which is pretty accurate.
Also with the band now: Ty from Genre Is Death and bassist Rob Mellinger, doing double duty this day from another band on the bill, Crazy & the Brains.
Here are a few scenes from the inspired set featuring songs from their two EPs as well as a cover of the Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs" and Sonic Youth's "Dirty Boots."
Puzzled Panther is off to Europe now for a tour. You can keep tabs on them via Instagram.
It was an inspired afternoon of music with Bubbles, 95 Bulls, and Grace Begere.
Crazy & the Brains, who got their start in the East Village, tore it up...
And there was headliner Nabihah Iqbal, who also played a sold-out show this past Monday at Night Club 101 on Avenue A, and delivered an atmospheric, genre-blurring set...
Faces in the crowd included Ty and Taylor from Genre Is Death, currently working on a new record...
... and East Village resident Alli Walls, lead singer of Skorts...
We're not sure if there's one last Show Brain show this year in Tompkins. Regardless, thanks to SB founder Ozzie for bringing so much music to the park this spring and summer.
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