Starting today you can purchase Panic Bomber t-shirts designed by Kristin Fulscher. These are American Apparel shirts cut to wear.

You can purchase them up as well as stickers and CDs in the brand new Panic Bomber Shop.

Pick yours up today and wear it proudly!

(Note, I swear they look better in person, I’m not a product photographer)

…most house music strikes me as interchangeable in the moment, and totally disposable in the light of day. Miami’s Richard Haig, aka Panic Bomber, is changing all that. While his electro style is undoubtedly rooted in house, his background in indie rock bands and his degree in composition from Miami U give him the edge and theoretical skills to step outside the after-hours box to explore a wider range of possibilities. IDM beats, pop synths and experimental left turns like the jazzy horns in Can’t Sleep pepper this genre-expanding EP.

NOW Magazine gives Discipline EP Four Stars

Toronto has a rather large Chinatown, and its restaurants are open late.  After Friday night’s gig, my illustrious manager (Paddy Scace) and I walked from restaurant to restaurant along one of Toronto’s main Chinatown drags, in search of cold tea.  We would walk into a restaurant, get seated, then when the waiter asked what we’d like to order, we would ask for cold tea.  Five or six waiters declined our advances, and one even got visibly angry and made a bit of a scene.  Eventually, through Paddy’s foolhardy persistence we arrived at an establishment shady enough to provide us with the illicit requested goods.

Paddy Scace, manager extraordinaire, enjoying cold tea.

Cold tea is beer.  Served in a traditional Asian restaurant teapot.  Dubious legality, delicious thirst-quenchary.

(Note to self: take more and better photos when out gigging.)

Going on sale soon.

Designed by Kristin Fulscher.

By my lovely friends, Morphologic.

The Discipline EP comes out March 16th on YYZ Records.

Details forthcoming.

A couple of brief preview updates.

Last weekend I completed an incredibly ambitious green screen video shoot directed by Robothands. This video will be completed and released in about a month. I won’t say much more now, but here are some teaser photos from the shoot for you to salivate over:

I’m currently finishing up a new record, the Discipline EP which will be released on YYZ Records from Canada very shortly.

I’ve got a bunch of tour dates coming up soon which will be announced shortly. HELLO CANADA!

Exciting! More details to come when I feel comfortable sharing.

As a musician, I neither have much money nor many useful labor skills for disaster relief. I believe the best way I can be of use to people in need is to donate my entertainment to people who may have the economic means to help those in deeper need. If you like, you may think about it as donating to a charity and getting Panic Bomber material as a reward. Therefor if you purchase a Panic Bomber download between Tues Jan 19 – Mon Jan 25, 100% of the proceeds will go to the MapAction and Engineers without Borders charities. If you would like a CD, all but the manufacturing cost will go to charity. I will cover the shipping costs out-of-pocket. Thank you.

MapAction puts cartographers and researchers on the ground in disaster areas to better inform other relief workers where help is most needed.

Engineers without Borders does not provide disaster relief however they provide longer term infrastructure support which is essential to preventing future mishaps.

How does one participate?
Go now to BandCamp.PanicBomber.com. Support a good cause and get feel-good entertainment for your good will.

Thank you.

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