Tijuana Panthers

The band toured extensively in support of Semi-Sweet, sharing stages with Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segal, the Reverend Horton Heat, and Jello Biafra, while also appearing at the annual Coachella Festival. In June 2014, Tijuana Panthers dropped album number three, Wayne Interest, via Innovative Leisure, and a little over a year later the band was back with its fourth full-length, Poster. A six-song cassette EP, Ghost Food, was released in 2016, and Innovative Leisure brought out a new edition of Max Baker in 2018. With 2019's Carpet Denim, the group explored less dated and more ambitious melodic frameworks without abandoning their passion for vintage sounds, and they stayed on this path on Pull the Chute, a spare, tuneful five song EP released in 2020. The group teamed up with producer and engineer Jonny Bell to record 2022's Halfway to Eighty at his Jazzcats Studio in Long Beach, California. Sounding fast, efficient, and fully engaged, Halfway to Eighty saw the Panthers acknowledging their advancing age in the title as well as in songs like "Slacker" and "Helping Hand," though their blend of surf guitars and garage punk raunch was as strong and solid as ever. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi