A Rocking Good Time

Seattle natives Minus The Bear combine sophisticated math rock time signatures with ear-burrowing melodies and tongue-in-cheek lyrics. With song titles Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!! and Lemurs, Man, Lemurs, the quartet indeed marches to the beat of their own intriguing odd-metered drums. Bursting out of the windy city with their prog-tinged indie rock in 2001, the band hit their stride six years later with the release of seminal fan favorite Planet Of Ice, since then the band has gone from strength to strength and solidified their name in the genre.