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Golden Bear

The indie rock equivalent of Snuggle fabric softener, Golden Bear bundles listeners up in blankets of warm, comfortable fuzziness behind the friendly roar of grizzled frontman, guitarist, and middle-school science teacher Chris Gregory. The base of the band came together in 2002, when bassist Brent Pennington, drummer Andy McAllister, and multi-instrumentalist Jamie Reaves formed the Arthurs, who, along with Colby and Heather Pennington recorded as the Channel and, with the addition of Gregory and keyboardist Matt Gardiner, as Golden Bear. ...

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