TRASH TALK: CAULIFLOWER EAR AND BRUISES FOR DAYZ OBTAINED

Everyone employed at Santos gets pumped on different shows or parties every day. This asshole Marketing Director tends to stoke out on hardcore and metal shows. Naturally, I've been excited to see Trash Talk and Off! for months. Even with a bum leg last time Trash Talk was here, singer Lee Spielman still ended up standing on our north bar setting it off.

And as seen on the video below, dudes didn't exactly hold back this time around. Spielman sung and ignited pits in pretty much every corner of our beloved North Pole. And it ruled. While I got a little too twisted to stick around for Off! (I saw them 86 times at SXSW anyway), Trash Talk still blew my mind. Highlights included watching RCRDLBL head-honco and Santos' bro Elliot Aronow circle pit and fuck up his arm (prior to saying the phrase 'hardcore rules'), watching Nick Zinner get into Cerebral Ballzy, and feeling the effects of my bro Nick from Alpha & Omega stage dive on top of me at least 10 times. Oh, and of course me stage diving directly onto the floor at about the 3:10 mark. All in all, a solid night.

For all the dudes in the world is freaking out because Odd Future stage dives a bunch during their shows, they should probably go to a Trash Talk show to see the real deal (not hating, just saying). Big shouts to our light wizard Jeff Burton for catching this shitty-to-crappy footage on his Flip Cam.

JEFF The Brotherhood and Screaming Females will riff you apart

JEFF The Brotherhood, Screaming Females, Juiceboxxx, Teen Witch, DJ Thanksgiving Brown
Thursday, March 31, 2011
7:00 PM 18+
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE and at Other Music (15 East 4th St)

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD
Real-life brothers and dynamic garage duo Jeff The Brotherhood might be considered a breakout artist these days, but the youngsters have been power-riffing away since the early 2000’s when Jamin and Jake Orrall were in their mid-teens. Their sound is huge compared to their modest setup – a lightly outfitted trap kit and a guitar minus three strings, but the grooves they lay down are weighty and dense, perfectly complimenting their mature songwriting. Strictly DIY in practice, the group run their own label Infinity Cat, and through it produced and released their 2010 album Heavy Days, recorded by Roger Moutenot (Yo La Tengo, Sleater Kinney, Velvet Underground ).

SCREAMING FEMALES
Heavily touted by the likes of Ted Leo and BrooklynVegan, the pop-inspired punk rock of Screaming Females is an undeniably jarring mixture of coarseness and brilliant songwriting. Somehow, they pour on layers of memorable melody despite being a humble trio. Marissa Paternoster earns the most attention as the guitar-savvy frontwoman with the versatile yell as befits the band’s name. Pitchfork approves, saying, “Punk has traditionally prized attitude over abilities, but Screaming Females have both: Rather than muzzle their ferocity, the band's tight, tense dynamic amplifies the fuck-off stridency of their fourth LP, Castle Talk.”

JUICEBOXXX
The otherworldly sounds of Juiceboxxx, producer and sometimes rapper, are rooted in hip-hop, but share a kinship with glitch, house, electro, punk and various underground club musics. The world of music journalism is just warming up to this young talent, thanks in no small part to his slot supporting Public Enemy on tour.

TEEN WITCH
Occupying a comfy niche between retro pop and punk, Teen Witch are an unsigned hype not to be underestimated.

Santa Is Builiding An Army

Santos Party House, the bi-level juggernaut dance club and performance space in downtown Manhattan, is looking for interns to help out with marketing, booking and administration. In its two years since opening, the venue has become internationally renowned, has won 19 nightlife awards (including Paper Magazine’s “Best Club” two years in a row, Zagat Survey’s “Best Dance Club” and The L Magazine’s “Best All-Around Everything Spot”), and has hosted marquee talent in nearly all genres of music, visual arts, cinema and more. We specialize in local talent as well as high-profile acts, and our industry connections include New York’s leading boutique storefronts as well giant media corporations. We are looking specifically for applicants whose passions include music (dance, local acts), nightlife, or marketing, and who exhibit adequate writing and general software skills. Creative, funny, syntactically aware and musically knowldgable writers are needed especially.

Interns will learn about the mechanics and colorful personalities of venue administration, gain hands-on experience with top-tier events featuring preeminent talent, and receive complimentary entry to events and freebies. We will also offer college credit where appropriate.


Notable talent:
Andrew W.K. (Owner)
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
BLK JKS
Busta Rhymes
Gang Gang Dance
Converge
Peter Bjorn & John
Salem
Tim & Eric
Sleigh Bells
Jahdan Blakkamoore
N.E.R.D.
Vivian Girls
Jay Electronica
Cro-Mags
Meshell Ndegeocello
Debbie Harry
Yoko Ono
Thurston Moore
Moby
Q-Tip
Just Blaze
Basement Jaxx
Afrojack
Boys Noize
Grandmaster Flash, 108,
DJ Sets by Beastie Boys, Animal Collective, Neon Indian

Those interested should e-mail Fred(at)santospartyhouse.com a cover letter and resume. We will not be taking inquiries over the phone.

Trash Talk and OFF! to give you cauliflower ear

Trash Talk, OFF! and Cerebral Ballzy
Saturday, March 26, 2011
7:00 PM 18+
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE and at Other Music (15 East 4th St, Manhattan)

TRASH TALK
The mutation through which music has gone at the hands of the internet has changed our idea of authenticity and the notion of purists. What used to be sell-out is now the paradigm and vice versa. So it’s ironic that a band like Trash Talk can become known as rogues by simply keeping their violent sound unadulterated. Drawing primarily from old crossover era thrash metal and hardcore, they have perfected and slightly updated the techniques of brutality, hiding layers of deceptive complexity under heavily distorted riffs, artillery percussion, and untiring screams. The band have taken full ownership of their vision, publishing their own records and books through their Trash Talk Collective imprint, closely allied with the world of skating. In a review for their 2010 release Eyes & Nines, Pitchfork praised them for “conveying absolute fury,” declaring, “And though you can probably listen to the album more than once on your morning commute, it still works as a full-immersion experience, its sludgy roar hitting hard on a visceral gut-level."

OFF!
Going into 2011’s SXSW, one of the most discussed acts in heavy music is OFF!, a veritable underground supergroup, boasting members such as vocalist Keith Morris (who served in Black Flag and Circle Jerks) and bassist Steven McDonald (Redd Kross). At first, they present tightly honed punk chops with streetwise inflection, but the complexity these musicians have built over the years soon reveals itself upon second listen. Guitarist Dimitri Coats explains, "There's a dark sarcasm that's prevalent throughout his body of work and it fits with what we're trying to get across with our band." They formed in 2009 and in late 2010 released a compilation of their first four EP’s, with 16 tracks boasting just over a minute’s length each, true OG punk style.Punknews has gotten on board, saying “With 16-minute shows and 18-minute "albums," OFF! is reclaiming what can be absolutely great about punk rock. There's not a millisecond of wasted time, not a single wasted breath, not a single crack of the drums that doesn't drive the music forward. That's”

CEREBRAL BALLZY
The Brooklyn quintet Cerebral Ballzy can boast an accomplishment that most punk groups envy: a balance between snark and ferociousness. Often seen playing alongside Japanther and the Death Set, they recall the era of Minor Threat and Bad Brains with remarkable accuracy.

NYC LOVES JAPAN - Tony Touch, Stretch Armstrong and Louie Vega put it down for the relief effort

Tony Touch & Friends present:

NYC LOVES JAPAN: DJ's Tony Touch, Louie Vega, Stretch Armstrong

Friday, March 25, 2011

10:00 PM 21+

The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 was one of the most devastating natural disasters of our time, and with lingering dangers due to a compromised nuclear plant, the relief effort will be long and hard-fought. We wouldn't be New Yorkers if we did not come to the aid of a country that has given us so much, and that is why DJ Tony Touch is wrangling his allies in nightlife to contribute the best way he knows how: with a party. On March 25th at Santos Party House, the crews from Funkbox, Toca Tuesdays and Rock Steady will throw down, with a DJ line-up featuring hip-hop radio and nightlife pioneer Stretch Armstrong, soulful house production genius Louie Vega, Tony Touch himself, a producer, rapper and cultural bridge between hip-hop and latin culture. Hosting will be discotheque queen Rosie Perez. Once again, these veteran nightlife entities have put together a great party, this time for a great cause.

Salem pics, Andrew W.K. at SXSW

Thanks to Rachel Chandler for Purple Magazine.

Andrew W.K., who has a new EP out on March 30th in Japan, had a few words with iClips, discussing the Thrasher Mag SXSW party curated by Santos, his new music, destroying things with teenagers, and much more.

"One huge act of creativity"

InTheMo, a handy new website on recommendable people, places and parties, has put together an amazing video feature on our little club that could featuring our inimitable owner Spencer Sweeney.



"... The next night we might have a gay party on a biblical scale come through and just [explode]..."

Salem to haunt the house

S!ck presents
Mainstage: SALEM with Lil Ugly mane, Shams, DJ's Aaron K, Becka Diamond, XMOFOX, MDMA Arthur and Cool Hand Luke (downstairs level included)
Downstairs ($5 cover does not include mainstage): Ghxst, Black Hearted Diamond Boy, Blissed Out, Gospels, Food Stamps
Saturday, March 19, 2011
9:00 PM 18+
(MAINSTAGE) TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE and at Other Music (15 East 4th St, Manhattan)

Salem's founding member John Holland told Dazed and Confused, "I feel inspired musically when I see a large burning fire in the middle of the forest, smoke and fog, large waves and expansive bodies of water. But our birthplace is the woods, so that remains a part of us." Though the scant lyrics in the band's music are often obscured by gusts of haunting production, but the primary invocations of the paranormal, dark, and the isolated parts of the human here are startling vivid; the band's mythic history with drugs, depression and prostitution are merely inferred. Their beats are slow, menacing takes on inner city club music, house, dub, crunk and juke. Holland and his partners Heather Marlatt and Jack Donoghue share production and vocal duties, with neo-Romantic melodies infiltrating synth sounds from new wave and industrial electronica, all filtered through the band's close personal bond and profoundly dark worldview. Cokemachineglow extolled their 2010 debut full-length King Night, saying, "Salem evokes the seismic thrill of a good Gucci drop alongside all of Nico’s ghostly beauty within the very framework and timbre of their productions. The result is no less than one of 2010’s most exciting debuts."

MetroMix Win, Installation Featured in the New York Times

Thanks to our incredible clientele of vicious partygoers, we have taken the big win for MetroMix's 2011 Best of New York poll. Well done everyone! We will continue working ourselves to the bone to bring you the best in nightlife, entertainment, art and leisure.

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We've been taking great pains over the past couple of years to make our downstairs level an incredible club and music venue in its own right, so when we decided to also make the entire thing an art installation by the world famous Peter Doig the media was sure to take notice.

The New York Times' Ben Detrick stopped by our Emergency Party unveiling celebration in and was pretty impressed by what he saw. His article comes with a nice little slideshow.

Last Saturday, a stream of artists, fashion designers, gallery owners, writers and their scene-y cohorts descended into the basement of Santos Party House, which had been transformed into a rotating art installation. It was the return of the Emergency Party — a kind of Warhol Factory meets a dive bar started by Parinaz Mogadassi, a curator, and Spencer Sweeney, one of Santos’s art-minded owners.

Peter Doig, an abstract painter from Trinidad, colored the cinderblock walls in one corner in Caribbean pastels. The artist Rita Ackermann and Lizzi Bougatsos, a musician in the electronic group Gang Gang Dance, contributed paintings that hung in the upstairs windows, and remade an Ol’ Dirty Bastard track that played in the entrance.

“People are trying to get back that ’80s thing where the art world and clubbing was synonymous,” said Matthew Higgs, the director of the White Columns gallery.

By midnight, as a fog machine clouded the air and disco thumped, the club was packed with a raffish crowd that included a sprinkling of stars like Chloë Sevigny and MC Spank Rock.

More installations and accompanying parties to follow. If you need more convincing, here's The New York Press' read on the series.

Marnie Stern and Tera Melos with Headless Horseman get weird

Marnie Stern and Tera Melos with Headless Horseman
Friday, March 4th, 2011
7:30 PM 18+
TICKETS HERE (and at Other Music - 15 E 4th St, Manhattan)

MARNIE STERN
Stuffy music critics tend to label Marnie Stern “artrock,” perhaps because the idea of a woman commanding progressive metal is easier for them to stomach when referred to by misty catchalls. But with all due respect, none who have been branded as such can shred this well, and Stern possesses the finger-tapping acumen that Eddie Van Halen would envy. Her music runs the gamut in terms of emotional bent, but as a whole it is bright and uplifting, propelled by fleet polyrhythms and Stern’s playful lyricism. Pitchfork has said of her second self-titled LP released in 2010, “There's plenty here for musicians to analyze and dissect with envy, but first and foremost, this is an album for the body and the soul.”

TERA MELOS
The mischievous and infinitely original nature of Tera Melos does not give easily to classification. Their harmonic sensibilities fit tenuously in the world of post-hardcore, but the phrasing of be-bop and the raw irreverence of punk are also very present in the music. And while most of their grooves don’t require a calculator, expect odd rhythms and whimsical time signatures to enter into the fray. The technical superiority of this trio is adds density to their music, making it infinitely relistenable, while allowing them to expand into heavier and/or stranger sonic territories. They’re currently hot off the heels of the release of their Zoo Weather EP, a compilation of original jams as well as remixes.

HEADLESS HORSEMAN
The profundity of Headless Horseman is in their ability to reveal the menacing in nearly every kind of music they explore in their psychedelic collage of styles. You’ve got your pop, folk, blues, dance and noise music all handled efficiently, with a healthy dose of the sinister underlying everything. Electronic trickery is the centerpiece of their sound, with guitars, drums and various acoustic appendages adding to the mix, all handled by Connor O’Neill and Fareed Sajan (Bottle Up & Go) . Stereogum called them a "band to watch," we'll do them one better and give them a listen!