Reptar
Aug 22, 2011
Hailing from the greater Athens-Atlanta-Asheville area, Reptar has been playing music ever since recorded history, but playing shows as Reptar since December 2008. Since then, the fast rising fabulous four has created quite a sensation around the Southeast. It all started with their debut 7? recorded with producer Ben Allen and released on Allen's label Make Records Not Bombs.
Reptar likes to make people dance, and have been likened to The Talking Heads, Animal Collective, Prince, Marky Mark, Lake, Air, and the Jackson 5. The band is made up of Andrew McFarland, a Brazilian native, classically trained snare drummer, and sophomore at UGA, Ryan Engleberger, who currently attends Dartmouth College in the Artic Circle majoring in Jaco Pastorius' fretless bass, Graham Ulicny, an African Soukous guitarist and AstroBioElectroPhysics student at the University of North Carolina in Asheville, and William Kennedy, great godson to Herbie Hancock's ARP 2600 and sophomore at UGA. With Reptar's powers combined, they can topple small buildings, smaltzy restaurants, and shmuppy next-door-neighbors with their devastating wall of synthesizers and samples.
Reptar recently announced that they have signed to Vagrant Records, who will be working in partnership with Make Records Not Bombs on the upcoming Oblangle Fizz Y'all EP. The EP was released digitally on August 2nd and is available now on iTunes. Their first single off the EP "Stuck In My Id" is impacting Alternative radio now.
The band will later take to the road to support the Oblangle Fizz Y'all EP by playing both Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits music festivals. A nationwide tour with Foster The People and The Cults will immediately follow ACL festival in September.
US Fall Tour With Foster The People & The Cults
- September 15 - House of Blues - Dallas, TX
- September 16 - Austin City Limits Music Festival -- Austin, TX
- September 17 - House of Blues - Houston, TX
- September 19 - House of Blues - New Orleans, LA
- September 20 - Beacham Theatre - Orlando, FL
- September 21 - Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
- September 23 - The National - Richmond, VA
- September 26 - 9:30 Club - Washington DC
- September 29 - House of Blues - Boston, MA
- October 1 - Sound Academy - Toronto, ON
- October 2 - Newport Music Hall - Columbus, OH
- October 4 - The Vogue - Indianapolis, IN
- October 6 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
- October 7 - The Aquarium - Fargo, ND
- October 9- Showbox at the Market- Seattle, WA
- October 10 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC
- October 15 - The Wiltern - Los Angeles, CA
- October 18 - The Wiltern - Los Angeles, CA