Artist · chart history
Bear Hands
Band Brooklyn United States Formed 2006 New York indie quartet
Bear Hands formed in 2006 in Brooklyn, United States. Bear Hands has 24 chart appearances on 19 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2014–2020. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Giants”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #3. The station that charted Bear Hands most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Bear Hands formed in Brooklyn in 2006: Dylan Rau on vocals and guitar, Ted Feldman on guitar, Val Loper on bass and TJ Orscher on drums, playing a wiry, twitchy take on post-punk and indie rock. They signed with Cantora Records in 2010 with the single "What a Drag", released their debut album, Burning Bush Supper Club, that same year, and went out on the road opening for GZA, Passion Pit and We Were Promised Jetpacks.
Distraction, in 2014, is where things clicked. "Giants" is a slinky, sardonic strut of a song that cracked the top ten of the Alternative Songs chart that summer, and "Agora" followed it onto the countdowns. You'll Pay for This, in 2016, kept the jittery grooves coming with "2AM" and "Boss", and "Blue Lips" showed up in 2019 on an EP that also carried "2AM".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Bear Hands on radio countdowns
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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