Women We Haven't Met Yet, by Minus the Bear from the album Highly Refined Pirates

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Minus the Bear:
🎵 Women We Haven't Met Yet

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Guess what?!?! It’s Jake of Minus the Bear’s birthday! Please join us in wishing him the best 🎉

Slide 1 - Christina Dianna
Slide 3 - Natalie C Guillot

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Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!!, by Minus the Bear from the album Highly Refined Pirates

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🎵 Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!!

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Menos El Oso 20th Anniversary Pink Back in 2005, Seattle quintet Minus the Bear were riding the wave of a swift upward trajectory with their blend of '90s mathrock fretboard savvy, early '00s electro-indie textural depth, and the wistful melodicism of the more mature strain of Midwest emo. So it was an interesting time for the band to undergo a stylistic sea change. Looking beyond their fellow guitar slingers, Minus the Bear instead found inspiration in the more adventurous pop producers of the era and went full steam ahead with a revamped sound of glitchy guitar loops, modern R&B rhythms, and swirling electronic tapestries on their 2005 sophomore album Menos el Oso. The stylistic shift was a gamble in the waning years of indie rock orthodoxy, but the risk paid off and Minus the Bear's popularity exploded. Twenty years later, Menos el Oso still sounds fresh and vibrant while simultaneously capturing the essence of a specific era where the rules and formulas of guitar-forward music were breaking down. To celebrate the album's anniversary, Suicide Squeeze Records and Minus the Bear are offering up Menos el Oso (Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition), featuring an expanded tracklist including five previously unreleased demos. The eleven tracks comprising the original Menos el Oso remain untouched for this deluxe edition. From the moment the needle hits on "The Game Needed Me," the listener is reminded that there's no need to mess with keyboardist Matt Bayles' air-tight engineering and production on the album. The template is established right away: David Knudson's staccato guitar samples and pedal modulations, Erin Tate's souped-up club beats, Cory Murchy's syncopated backbeat basslines, Bayles's heady synth hooks, and guitarist/vocalist Jake Snider's soulful guitar lines and trademark croon. There's an element of revelry and melancholy across the entire album as Snider casually describes vignettes from the band's first overseas tour-a six-date tour of Spain. These lyrical scenes drape the album in the excitement, yearning, aimlessness, and exoticness Hemingway captured in his rendering of The Lost Generation in The Sun Also Rises, achieving a similar dichotomous fusion of celebration and reflection. The centerpiece of the album-"Pachuca Sunrise"-encapsulates this duality with such enduring and profound power that one cannot talk about indie rock in the first decade of the new millennium without including it in the pantheon. Songs like "Drilling" and "The Fix" further reinforce the lyrical and musical themes of the album as they describe an American contemplating the distance between their home country and the foreign shores of the Mediterranean Sea against a backdrop of chirping guitars and drum patterns that fuse the poptimist pulse of the era with the sweaty subterranean rock embedded in the band's pedigree.Menos el Oso (Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition) expands the original LP into a double album featuring five demos mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering on side C and an etching by Cory Murchy on side D. These early incarnations of four Menos el Oso tracks and "I'm Totally Not Down With Rob's Alien" from the They Make Beer Commercials Like This EP showcase how razor-sharp and sonically satisfying Minus the Bear were even when their songs were still being workshopped. As companion pieces to the album, these alternate takes shine a light on the creative process of a band undergoing a sonic evolution while also just being solid standalone tracks. In addition to the expanded tracklist and side D etching, the vinyl version of Menos el Oso (Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition) features updated artwork in a gatefold jacket with a matte gloss and spot UV varnish, a 24-page photo booklet, and a vinyl cut by Bernie Grundman.

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Silver, by Minus the Bear from the album VOIDS

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🎵 Silver

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Knights, by Minus the Bear from the album Planet Of Ice

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Minus the Bear:
🎵 Knights

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VALENTINE’S DAY CONTEST! We’re giving away one LP and one CD of Minus the Bear’s ‘Lost Loves’ album! Enter to win by clicking the post at the link below.

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Knights, by Minus the Bear from the album Planet Of Ice

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🎵 Knights

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Minus the Bear hits Texas with Jimmy Eat World 🌟

9/9 - Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater
9/10 - Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory

Tickets on sale tomorrow at 12p local.
PW: ONTHEROAD

Photo by Ryan Russell

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Pachuca Sunrise (Alias Remix), by Minus the Bear from the album Interpretaciones del Oso

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🎵 Pachuca Sunrise

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Lotus, by Minus the Bear from the album Planet Of Ice

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🎵 Lotus

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Ice Monster, by Minus the Bear from the album Planet Of Ice

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🎵 Ice Monster

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El Torrente, by Minus the Bear from the album Menos el Oso (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

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🎵 El Torrente

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Drilling (P.O.S. Redo), by Minus the Bear from the album Interpretaciones del Oso

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🎵 Drilling

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Into The Mirror, by Minus the Bear from the album OMNI

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🎵 Into the Mirror

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Pachuca Sunrise (Alias Remix), by Minus the Bear from the album Interpretaciones del Oso

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Minus the Bear:
🎵 Pachuca Sunrise

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When We Escape, by Minus the Bear from the album Planet Of Ice

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🎵 When We Escape

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Hooray, by Minus the Bear from the album Acoustics II

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Minus the Bear:
🎵 Hooray

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Double Vision Quest, by Minus the Bear from the album Planet Of Ice

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🎵 Double Vision Quest

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The most millennial thing about me is that I just wanna post musical lyrics that have nothing to do with what I’m actually doing and everything to do with the plans im making #MinusTheBear #MenosElOso

Memphis & 53rd (Fog Remix), by Minus the Bear from the album Interpretaciones del Oso

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🎵 Memphis & 53rd

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Dog Park, by Minus the Bear from the album They Make Beer Commercials Like This

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Minus the Bear:
🎵 Dog Park

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Minus The Bear

#BostonWeekend 22x Sat SUBTRACTION Indie rockers reformed #MinusTheBear sold out show at the HOB in #Boston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHijNidhoII https://www.minusthebear.com #BostonMusic

Seeing my favorite band, Minus the Bear in Orlando. Seeing them again tomorrow in Atlanta. I missed their final tour in 2018 because I was in the hospital with sepsis, so this is redemption. #minusthebear

I’m in #lasvegas for Best Friends Forever Fest. So many great bands, but Jawbreaker is the holy grail.

#jawbreaker #knapsack #bearvsshark #cursive #jimmyeatworld #minerL #prettygirlsmakegraves #minusthebear #knumears #febuary #superchunk #bestfriendsforever

Minus the Bear - Let's Play Guitar in a Five Guitar Band (xbxsx cover), by bottom surgery from the album Havyn Alyce Sings the Blues (Extended)

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🎵 Let's Play Guitar in a Five Guitar Band

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Pachuca Sunrise (Alias Remix), by Minus the Bear from the album Interpretaciones del Oso

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Minus the Bear:
🎵 Pachuca Sunrise

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Kicking off my Friday with this monster!

Minus the Bear- Menos El Oso

#minusthebear #menoseloso #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #vinylcommmunity #nowspinning #musicsky

#MusicalPuke on #YouTube
Music game show with hosts
@timkasher.bsky.social & @gwyneddstuart.bsky.social

With guest contestants: #MinusTheBear

I’d like to know where they got the name, Minus The Bear, and what it means. OK, those might be the same question & elicit the same answer.