Blog for SANTERIA

SANTERIA LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!!

2009-09-12T00:06:50-04:00

SANTERIA w/ PARAMAYA

$7.00 COVER

When:
Saturday, September 12, 2009 9:00 PM - 2:00 AM CDT

Where:

SOMEWHERE'S ELSE
1506 Surrey St.
Lafayette, la 70501

Description:
Come check out SANTERIA'S full on electric big amp rock show. We'll have SANTERIA, BBC, and BROTHER DEGE merch (CD'S, T-SHIRTS) available.

Paramaya, are a great band from Baton Rouge. They remind me of vintage Acid Bath/Sabbath/Southern Rock. These guys have been fans and friends for years.... They have been getting real good exposure lately. Rockin Stuff.

Somewhere's Else Lounge is a new place for live rock n roll. Located near Lafayette Regional Airport, next to Heyman Park. The local is safe with free parking at the club and next door. I decided to book Santeria there, after catching a rockin show by Brother Dege and The Freetown Hounds. Not only was the show a success, but the vibe of the club sold me.

NEW VIDEOS ON FACEBOOK/REVERBNATION!

2009-07-31T09:26:04-04:00

Finally found time to update the reverbnation site. Included are a few fan videos and the excellent Brother Dege dobro gorilla videos.

Enjoy.

Primo

BRAND NEW SANTERIA REVIEW!!!

2009-06-04T23:20:14-04:00

A Really Good one from Laura at Music-Reviewer.com.

http://www.music-reviewer.com/June-2009/Rock-Pop-Alternative/Santeria::Year-of-the-Knife/

CLASSIC ROCK ISSUE #130 FEATURE

2009-05-15T00:21:45-04:00

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REVIEW BY NICK @ STONERROCK.COM!!

2009-05-15T00:19:34-04:00

NEW ALBUM REVIEW BY NICK @ STONERROCK.COM!!
Santeria - Year of the Knife
Review by Nick DeMarino (StonerRock.com)
GolarWash Labs & Records
Release Date: October 2008

There's no shortage of problems with calling a rock album "classic." For one, the word's historical use is as an adjective referencing the Greeks or culture thereof (alternately, the Romans, although their culture was largely derivative of Greek, rendering this use redundant). Then again you could argue usage and connotation dictate meaning, at least from a utilitarian perspective (the lower case "u" is more than slightly ironic in this context). What's more, modern dictionaries proffer its less specific denotation as "traditional" or "enduring." Most problematic, and likely most germane to our current discourse, is its use to describe a sloppily delineated and amorphous body of music. Despite this masturbatory etymological pseudo-debate, I'm going to go ahead and say it:

Santeria's Year of the Knife is a classic album.

In truth, that long winded, ivory tower introduction is my means of coping with the fact that I can't, for the life of me, think of anything to say about this album. It's absolutely amazing. It's got great hooks, mesmerizing grooves, and excellent arrangements. It blends the best of old rock, country (as currently co-opted by indie kids), and delta blues. Dege Legg's vocals are so amazing I'm convinced they could convert the most indoctrinated Lil' Wayne fan.

The Lafayette, Louisiana group, well known in small circles, but alien to the public at large, has a long history based on DIY ethos, loyalty, and enough drama for a Mexican soap opera. The band's last effort, House of the Dying Sun, came six years ago, but a nasty car accident put the band on hiatus while drummer Krishna recuperated. The wait was well worth it though, as Year of the Knife clearly illustrates.

As soon as "Come On, Baby" kicks in, you can tell something special is underway. The guitars and bass are rhythmic and full - old school - but there' are some modern touches as well, most notably keyboard swells. Things get a little '80's U2 on "Nowhere to Go" and Rumors-era on Fleetwood Mac on "Haunted Heart," but both are still distinct and memorable. "Mexico" marks a trip to the blues shack full of steel guitars, harmonicas, and other delights that lasts for three tracks before the hard rock kicks back in. "My Right Thing Can't Go Wrong" has a great, rambling feel and some great steel guitar and harmonica. "Year of the Knife" displays expert integrations of so-called world music (that is hand drums, pan flutes, and other instruments usually reserved for ethnicity specific folk music). "House of the Dying Sun" finishes things off with the same full on psych blues rock that propels the entire album.

To be clear, this isn't a rock revival album - this is the new rock. The only comparison I can even muster is NY's Vietnam, although those gents aren't nearly as varied as Santeria.

URL: http://www.myspace.com/santeria777

INDIEPULSE DEGE INTERVIEW!

2009-05-15T00:18:43-04:00

Check out the brand new Q & A session with Dege and IndiePulse:

http://www.indiepulse.net/2009/02/qa-with-santeria.html

BLURT MAGAZINE REVIEW!!

2009-05-15T00:16:52-04:00

http://blurt-online.com/reviews/view/918/

Another great review from Fred Mills at BLURB. Thanks Fred for the opportunity...

Primo
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03/12/2009
Santeria

Year of the Knife

(GolarWash Labs & Records)

www.officialsanteria.com

Handily straddling several genres/eras at once, from ‘70s
hard rock to ‘80s alt-rock to ‘90s stoner rock, is Louisiana's Santeria, nominally described
(as the band says on its MySpace page) "swampadelic Southern rock." Ten years
and four albums into the game, however, the four-piece is far more elastic and
free-ranging than any of those tags might suggest. Amid a cloud of dark, bluesy
minor chords, thunder-on-the-horizon percussion and impassioned, gritty vocals
Santeria comes, mixing together such disparate elements as gothic punk,
churning roots-twang and Cajun and Zydeco (bet ya never imagined a washboard
and accordion - the latter wielded by the legendary Steve Riley of the Mamou
Playboys no less - could sound psychedelic).

The record kicks off with an unapologetic slab of
cowbell-slapping arena rock, the heavy riffing, Thin Lizzy-esque "Come On
Baby." High points pile up quickly after that: Blackfoot-meets-Pearl Jam
stomper "Nowhere to Go"; mariachi horns/steel guitar-powered "Mexico";
throbbing, ethereal "Can You Dream," which with its arpeggiated guitar figure
and yearning/keening vocal from frontman Dege Legg, could pass for a long-lost
mid-‘80s U2 outtake. And on the title track, a droning, hypnotic slice of
psych-tinged freak-folk reminiscent of Sixteen Horsepower's spooky incantations
and featuring an unsettling spoken word passage from Legg plus a noirish orchestral
coda, the band immerses itself in the voodoo hoodoo of its native region,
conjuring witches, demons and the spirits of the departed.

Admittedly, some of the band's stylistic mashups don't
completely convince; plus, default mode for Santeria is the aforementioned
arena rock, which means they might have trouble winning over younger, more
indiecentric audiences weaned on quirkier fare. But with hooks a-plenty and
melodies to die for, Year of the Knife - quietly released last fall and now getting a proper national roll-out - ultimately
goes down easy while retaining the proverbial sharp edges that makes for great
rock anthemism.

Standout Tracks: "You Got What I Need," "Year of the Knife" FRED MILLS

GREAT NEW READJUNK REVIEW!!

2009-05-15T00:15:35-04:00

http://www.readjunk.com/reviews/cdreviews/santeria-year-of-the-knife/

BRAND NEW COSMIC LAVA REVIEW OUT OF GERMANY!!!!

2009-05-15T00:14:38-04:00

BRAND NEW COSMIC LAVA REVIEW FROM GERMANY!!

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RETURN OF THE SWAMP THING (CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE REVIEW)

2009-05-15T00:13:13-04:00

RETURN OF THE SWAMP THING

Santeria “Year Of The Knife” Golarwash

It has been a fistful of long and trouble-tainted years since Louisiana ghost-rockers Santeria have graced us with a transmission from the swamplands. 2003’s House Of The Dying Sun was a masterpiece of sun-boiled powerblues and midnight psychedelia, a surreal and evocative road trip into the very heart of darkness.

Five years on, and the band’s propensity for writing songs that haunt and beguile has not waned. When they are in full Southern death-boogie mode, as in the tribal-stomping Leave Something Witchy, or the riff-gasmic Haunted Heart, Santeria sound like a gothic Allman Brothers, a sort of funeral party jam band, at once mournful and joyous.

Elsewhere, among other ethereal delights, there’s the fantastically weird Mexico, which mashes a Bob Seger-esque narrative with a lonesome acoustic guitar and a brass section, the ska-tinged Sold My Soul for Nothing, and the brooding psyche-grunge of You Got What I Need.

Anchored by frontman Dege Legg’s breathy shaman drawl, Year Of The Knife is so atmospheric you may need fog lights to find your way back to reality.

Ken McIntyre (Classic Rock Magazine - Issue 129)
8 out of 10 Stars