We are amazed and honored to be nominated for "Club/Venue of the Year" in the URB Magazine 2009 Readers Poll! Also up are other incredible nightlife forces and friends of Santos including Kid Cudi, Brooklynvegan,Lady Gaga, Miike Snow, Raekwon, Hype Machine, Stereogum, Turntable Lab and many more! Much respect to URB for showing us love and for allowing us to do the same for others. We support dope s#!+.
Also, don't forget the ballot for Paper's 2009 Nightlife Awards People's Choice Awards ENDS TOMORROW! So get the family involved! Let's make it happen!
Originally lumped in with post-rock - a guy-heavy/fun-light scene invented by music journalists in the 1990's - Trans Am has gone through a series of reactionary moves like singing, drinking beer and burning things on stage. Live, they have also mangled Led Zeppelin repeatedly. The band has been ugly, then poppy, then psychedelic, then political, then merely refused to go away. We suspect that A) There will be a new album released between now and the show & B) That album will be awesome.
Benny Soto and Rob Fernandez present TIMO MAAS Kickin off Dance.Here.Too residency. DOOR TIME CORRECTION November 28, 2009 11:00PM 21+ TICKETS HERE
Saturday: Amateur night, right? Immortalized in John Travolta movies and Misfits songs, it’s when everybody suits up and goes out. And you know what that means: Bad crowds, please-‘em-all music, and no space to dance.
Well the guys who brought Thursdays back are ready to perform Saturdays the same service.Rob Fernandez & Benny Soto, the promoters behind award-winning shindig Dance.Here.Now., are proud to present Dance.Here.Too.
A new concept in weekend fun that adapts the music-first DHN vibe to a party after which you don’t have to wake up for work.
“We realized that Saturday had fallen off the menu for a lot of people, and that’s just a waste of a night off,” says Rob.
“We wanted to create an alternative to the big, impersonal club experience that is more of a comingtogether of people that love music in a big way. We're taking back Saturday nights.,” says Benny.Set at Santos Party House – one of the city’s best dance-friendly venues with a custom sound system that defies ear fatigue – DHT will bring the focus back to you, your friends and the music. No nonsense, no door drama, no fuss.
With a wide-open music policy, featured DJs will run the gamut from house (American and European), toelectro, to uncategorizable. Already booked: Nervous Records artist/house legend Oscar G; the European“DJ’s DJ,” Danny Howells; and superstar-of-the-moment Laidback Luke. (Full list of dates below.) So next time you’re actually considering putting on your PJs and watching “Saturday Night Live,” set the DVR, get up, and get out to Santos and Dance.Here.Too.
In light of the season, Santos is feeling particularly thankful for the patiers keeping nightlife alive. So we're giving a little something back. E-mail presents@santospartyhouse.com with "Squanto's Party House" in the subject line for a chance to win two FREE spots to Timo Maas at Dance.Here.Too. Two winners will be selected. Please enter by 3:00pm on Saturday November 28.
FREE ENERGY and GLINT live November 28, 2009 7:00 PM 18+ TICKETS HERE
Pool your talent. FREE ENERGY Free Energy puts on their pants like the rest of you, one leg at a time. Except when their pants are on, they make earth-quaking, anthemic indie jams that will make you take yours off. Their sound, which taps the production of LCD Soundsysem’s James Murphy, can be described as the arena rock grooves of Toto interpolating the lyrical and melodic sensibilities of Pavement. They’re no live slouches either; Pitchfork Media said of their performance, “this is seriously fun music, the type of thing Weezer have attempted for the last few years except not as creepy or cloying.” Free Energy’s display of rock purity will be instilling eternal youth and vigor at Santos Party House on November 28 – wear something loose. Free Energy on Myspace
All in favor go crazy. GLINT Having cast the net from Brooklyn to initiate members from Israel and Brazil, Glint has grown into an internationally acclaimed powerhouse of intricate electronica spliced with dirty alternative rock. Their cleverly layered harmonies (Jase Blankfort is a stage performer on Broadway and elsewhere), pummeling percussion and windy guitars are trippy and transcendental enough to, for example, make you think you were a bumblebee and try to fly through a keyhole. Glint homepage
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Questlove will be this week's featured guest DJ for Q-Tip's Friday night OPEN party at 10pm here at Santos. This dude has rudiments for centuries but also knows how to work a sound system. Downstairs will be the return of DJ Gravy, Mirco Don and Max Glazer. If you haven't already been to the party, this is the residency wherein we make serious strides towards getting at the heart of New York City music.
And it wouldn't be wise to sleep on this one: we're picking 5 winners for free entrance plus a guest to this landmark night. That's a $30 value on some informercial ish. E-mail presents@santospartyhouse.com by 11am Friday to enter. Only those 21+ are eligible to win.
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On November 21, 2009 at 9pm, Santos Party House will proudly present, “B'doun O'mr (Ageless)” the new performance work by Nader Sadek.
In “Ageless,” a hyperbolic amalgamation of long-haired death metal musicians and a fully-veiled Middle Eastern woman is created when near mythical characters of an “extreme” nature merge. Ostensibly dark and menacing, these figures will be blended into one image. The hair covering the faces of each character functions as a replacement for the veil/mask. In the middle of an installation of conceptually-loaded objects, the five characters will perform a sonic composition. These elements create an atmosphere of hostility, reflecting and rejecting the supposed political dichotomy of East versus West. Objects found in the earlier stages of the artist’s series are thus transformed: The mashrabeya (ornate wooden lattice) that was employed to delineate private and public space in a previous performance held at the SculptureCenter is now deconstructed and returned to its basic natural shape—a glossy black tree trunk.
Given the imagined ideology of these combined cultures—now manifested in an independent figure—the goal of this creation is to bring these worlds back to Nature, to a fundamentally primitive existence, which is admittedly unachievable. The art objects used in the performance will stand free of apparent meaning, in a gesture that seeks to suspend the purported need for clearly defining this new environment and challenges art world conventions. With ambiguity defining much of the performance and an inherent tension surfacing as a spatial push and pull between the unrestrained subject (the artist and band members) and the spectator (the viewer), notions of objectification and turmoil will lead to ultimate transcendence.
Born in Cairo, Nader Sadek is an emerging conceptual artist based in New York. His installations and performances aim to blur configurations of private and public, while exorcising the holy and profane and evoking ritualistic restraint and impulsive aggression. He has exhibited in the US and abroad and has toured with some of the most influential death metal musicians in the world, having contributed original installations and costumes to Mayhem and Sunn O))). His previous works have been reviewed by the Village Voice, The Guardian, The Herald Tribune and the New Yorker.
The musicians that will accompany Sadek in his performance will include Steve Tucker, formerly of Morbid Angel, Flo Mounier of Cryptopsy and Mike Lerner of Behold...the Arctopus. For more information visit http://www.santospartyhouse.com and http://www.nadersadek.com
The Friday night residency OPEN's curriculum has been absolutely mind-blowing and tomorrow night's (November 20) throwdown with Joseph "Grandmaster Flash" Saddler will be no exception. One of the original hip-hop posses in the vein of the Herculoids, his Furious Five was responsible for developing and popularizing the new genre. One of the first to master and revolution mixing, scratching and cutting, Flash is known as the original turntable technician.
Want free admission to the party? We're giving away 5 pairs of free spots to contestants who e-mail presents@santospartyhouse.com. Winners announced tomorrow at noon.
If heart-pounding DJ sets by musical geniuses are your thing, we have A-Trak and Stretch Armstrong coming up. There has simply been no better time to party.
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2009
• Best All-around Everything Spot [L Magazine] • Best New Party: Discovery [L Magazine] • Best New NYC Bar [Metromix]
• Best New Rowdy Bar [Metromix]
• Best New Party Bar [Metromix]
• Best New Venue for Live Music [Metromix]
2008
• People's Choice Award for Best Club [Paper] • Best New Club [Paper] • Best DJ Night: Q-Tip, Rich Medina and Va$htie [Paper] • Best New Dance Floor [The Village Voice] • Best New Venue [New York Press Awards]
