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Santah’s recent Daytrotter Session is now live!

In support of their debut album “White Noise Bed” (out now on No Sleep Records) and their upcoming US tour dates withArmy Navy kicking off this week, Chicago psychedelic pop/rock band Santah have premiered their recently recordedDaytrotter session and have offered a sneak preview of the new song “Springfield,” click above to listen.

5-Oct: St. Louis, MO Firebird *
6-Oct: Champaign, IL University of Illinois Courtyard Café *
7-Oct: Indianapolis, IN Vollrath Tavern *
8-Oct: Atlanta, GA The Five Spot *
9-Oct: Nashville, TN The End *
10-Oct Lexington, KY Buster’s *
11-Oct: Columbus, OH Skully’s Music Diner *
12-Oct: Pittsburgh, PA Club Café *
13-Oct: Washington DC Black Cat *
14-Oct: Hamden, CT The Space *
15-Oct: Philadelphia, PA The Fire *
16-Oct: Boston, MA Brighton Music Hall *
17-Oct: Brooklyn, NY Public Assembly ^
20-Oct: CMJ Official Showcase Rockwood Music Hall
22-Oct: CEG Official CMJ Showcase Sullivan Hall
23-Oct: Richmond, VA The Camel *
24-Oct: Charlottesville, VA The Box *
25-Oct: Durham, NC Casbah *
26-Oct: Charleston, SC Village Tavern *
27-Oct: Louisville, KY Zanzabar *
28-Oct Chicago, IL Subterranean *%

* = w/ Army Navy (presented by FILTER Magazine)
^ = w/ The Grates and Brian Bonz
*% = w/ Army Navy Madi Diaz, and Kyle Andrews

xxx,
Chris No Sleep

Santah Announce US Tour w/ Army Navy! Presented by FILTER Magazine

Santah announce upcoming US tour w/ Army Navy this Fall! The tour is Presented by our good friends over at FILTER Magazine. Check out the tour dates below.

Santah Live w/ Army Navy
(Presented by Filter Magazine)
5-Oct: St. Louis, MO - Firebird
6-Oct: Champaign, IL – University of Illinois’ Courtyard Café
7-Oct: Indianapolis, IN - Vollrath Tavern
8-Oct: Atlanta, GA - TBD
9-Oct: Nashville, TN - The End
11-Oct: Columbus, OH - Skully’s Music Diner
12-Oct: Pittsburgh, PA - Club Café
13-Oct: Washington DC - Black Cat
15-Oct: Philadelphia, PA - The Fire
16-Oct: Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
18-21 Oct: New York, NY – CMJ Music Marathon
22-Oct: Charlottesville, VA - The Southern
23-Oct: Norfolk, VA - Taphouse
24-Oct: Richmond, VA - The Camel
25-Oct: Durham, NC - Casbah
26-Oct: Athens, GA - Caledonia Lounge
27-Oct: Louisville, KY - Zanzabar
28-Oct: Chicago, IL - Subterranean

Additional Santah Live Dates
1-Sep: Philadelphia, PA - The Fire &
3-Sep: Philadelphia, PA - Triumph Brewery
4-Sep: Richmond, VA - The Camel &
5-Sep: Raleigh, NC - Slim’s Downtown &
6-Sep: Durham, NC – Cashbah &
7-Sep: Columbia, SC - Five Points Pub &
8-Sep: Atlanta, GA - The Drunken Unicorn &
9-Sep: Athens, GA - Caledonia Lounge &
10-Sep: Opelika, AL - Eighth & Rail *
11-Sep: Memphis TN - Hi-Tone &
13-Sep: Nashville, TN - The End &~
15-Sep: Champaign, IL - Canopy Club
16-Sep: Bloomington, IN - Bear’s Place
17-Sep: Chicago, IL Subterranean
21-Sep: Indianapolis, IN - White Rabbit Cabaret
22-Sep: Cincinnati, OH - Midpoint Music Festival

& = w/ Ocean is Theory
&~ = w/ Ocean is Theory and Sleeper Agent
* = w/ Gringo Star

xxx,
Chris No Sleep 

Watch Santah Now on Threadless TeeV!

Head over to Threadless now to watch a LIVE Santah set in their warehouse!

xxx,
Chris No Sleep 

Santah Heading Out On The Road!

Santah are heading out on the road in support of their new record “White Noise Bed.” For tour dates and more check out the below! Make sure you attend one of these shows, you won’t be disappointed!

5-Aug: Chicago, IL - Threadless Warehouse Session  
5-Aug: Chicago, IL - BMI EXPRESS! Lollapalooza Party w/ An Horse and Rockie Fresh

13-Aug: Iowa City, IA - Blue Moose Tap House
14-Aug: Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
16-Aug: Minneapolis, MN - KUOM Radio K Session  
16-Aug: Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
17-Aug: Chicago, IL – Beauty Bar
18-Aug: Kansas City, MO – Riot Room
19-Aug: St. Louis, MO – Firebird w/ Elsinore
21-Aug: Louisville, KY - Uncle Slayton’s  
22-Aug: Lexington, KY - Cosmic Charlie’s  
23-Aug: Pittsburgh, PA - Smiling Moose  
24-Aug:  Brooklyn, NY - Knitting Factory w/ David Vandervelde  
25-Aug: Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl w/ Civil Twilight
27-Aug: Boston, MA – TBD
28-Aug: Hamden, CT – The Space
31-Aug:  New York, NY - Piano’s  

1-Sep: Philadelphia, PA - The Fire w/ Ocean Is Theory
   
4-Sep: Richmond, VA - The Camel w/ Ocean Is Theory
5-Sep: Raleigh, NC - Slim’s Downtown w/ Ocean Is Theory
6-Sep: Durham, NC – Cashbah w/ Ocean Is Theory
7-Sep: Columbia, SC - New Brookland Tavern w/ Ocean Is Theory
8-Sep: Atlanta, GA - The Drunken Unicorn w/ Ocean Is Theory
11-Sep: Memphis TN - Hi-Tone w/ Ocean Is Theory
13-Sep: Nashville, TN - The End w/ Ocean Is Theory
15-Sep: Champaign, IL - Canopy Club w/ The Kopecky Family Band
16-Sep: Bloomington, IN - Bear’s Place  
17-Sep: Chicago, IL Subterranean w/ The Kopecky Family Band
21-Sep: Indianapolis, IN - White Rabbit Cabaret    
22-Sep: Cincinnati, OH - Midpoint Music Festival

xxx,
Chris No Sleep 

Santah “White Noise Bed” Available Today + Streaming on PasteMagazine.com!

The debut full length “White Noise Bed” from Chicago’s Santah is available in stores and online today!

You can stream the entire new album now exclusively from Paste Magazine right here!

Santah will be performing at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn in support of the release, and it will be streaming via Livestream for anyone unable to attend! Attend the show via the internets here.

“White Noise Bed is built on a steady foundation of Midwestern rock, with a subtle dose of pop, a sideways glance at twang and a healthy hankering for the slightly psychedelic. These kids aren’t exactly rewriting the rulebook, but they certainly know how to bend its boundaries enough to keep their songs fresh and interesting upon multiple listens.” - Chicagoist

“‘No Other Women’” is quite the ballad of a tune with commanding vocals and soaring riffs by Stanton McConnell, piano runs that are littered all over the place and smashing drums that keep the tune from flying too far into the abyss.” - Filter

“Vampire Weekend will be the go-to comparison here, but there’s a different sort of feel at the root of Santah’s songs. A little bit more relaxed, they go bigger with the vocals and are free to go wherever they’d like with the riffs, which always makes for more interesting indie.” - RCRDLBL

xxx,
Chris No Sleep 

Free No Sleep Sampler “No Sleep Till Death (III) via Amazon.com!

Download a free No Sleep Records sampler entitled “No Sleep Till Death (III)” now via Amazon.com! The new sampler features new songs from Balance and Composure, Santah, Former Thieves, TS & The Past Haunts, La Dispute, Into It. Over It. and more! Download it here.

xxx,
Chris No Sleep 

Santah Interview via FILTER Magazine

Last week, FILTER premiered a new tune from Chicago’s Santah’s forthcoming new album. Today, we wanted to get you more acquainted with the group of old friends.

After reading their interview below, make sure you pre-order their new album, White Noise Bed, Right Here which arrives June 7th via No Sleep Records.

You all met while studying at the University of Illinois. Did you meet in a class, meadow, or pile of snow? Tell us more.
Well, Stan and Vivian are brother and sister so they’ve know each other since childhood. Steve and Stan met in high school and played music together for a few years. Stan then met Otto through playing music around Champaign-Urbana and Otto introduced the rest of us to Tommy a few months later.

Your forthcoming release, White Noise Bed has some incredibly charming and feel-good tunes, making a listener envision themselves on a porch with a glass of lemonade on a nice sunny day. Where was it recorded? What’s the play by play of the development for your work on this release?
We recorded the album at Pieholden Suite Sound in the Fall, which was the perfect environment for us to experiment. We felt at home because the studio was owned by the late Jay Bennett, who helped to write and define a lot of Wilco’s music in the Summerteeth and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot eras, which is our favorite. The actual songwriting process began the summer before when Stan started writing a lot of the songs that appear on the record. Later, when the band got together in the fall to work on the record, we spent a few weeks experimenting with the songs, trying out different tones and things in the studio before we actually started recording. Throughout the process, we were treating the songs as being part of the greater whole of the album.

Do you usually find yourselves writing consistently, or do you specifically congregate and set times solely dedicated to songwriting?
When we were in school together it was easy to continually write music because we were playing together every day. Now, the band tends to schedule long weekends so we can really get in to the creative process. Stan is writing songs everyday on his own, but it’s a little bit harder now to get the band in the same room

After catching a glimpse of your acoustic sessions of “Teeth”, “Neighbors & Cousins”, and “When I Couldn’t Move”, it’s safe to say the harmonies sync beautifully into the string arrangements. Having a pretty evident bond as friends and musicians, how do you translate that connection and artistry through your live performance?
We don’t think about it too hard. We just like to have a good time.
 
Summer time has now become music festival time. Will we be seeing you all on the road hitting up these festivals? Attending or performing? Or will you have a separate tour in the works? 
We are all excited for music festival time, but it looks like we’ll be touring during some of the festival season. We’re going to be on the road for most of May and June and hopefully August. I don’t think we’re booked at any festivals yet

Santah’s ‘No Other Women’ MP3 via FILTER

FILTER Magazine has posted an exclusive (new) MP3, tour dates and a nice little write-up about new No Sleep family members, Santah. 

”’No Other Women’ is quite the ballad of a tune with commanding vocals and soaring riffs..” - FILTER

Download/Stream ‘No Other Women’ HERE
Pre-order ‘White Noise Bed’ HERE

Catch Santah on tour this May/June:

May 10-Milwaukee, WI Cactus Club  
May 11-Des Moines, IA Vaudeville Mews  
May 12-Iowa, City, IA The Blue Moose Tap House  
May 14-Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall  
May 16-St, Louis, MO Off Broadway  
May 20-Lexington, KY Cosmic Charlie’s  
May 21-Chattanooga, TN Collective Warehouse  
May 23-Columbus, OH Rumba Café  
May 24-Detroit, MI Lager House  

June 1-Indianapolis, IN White Rabbit  
June 3-Pittsburgh 31st Street Pub  
June 4-New York City, NY Piano’s w/ The Dig and Dinosaur Bones  
June 7-Brooklyn, NY Knitting Factory  w/ Brian Bonz and Stationary Set
June 8-Cambridge, MA TT Bear’s  
June 10-Charlottesville, VA Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar 
June 13-Atlanta, GA Smith’s Olde Bar  
June 16-Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge  
June 17-Champaign, IL Cowboy Monkey  
June 18-Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen

xoxo,
Chase No Sleep  

Santah featured on Epitonic’s Epicenter Playlist

Santah’s White Noise Bed was featured on yesterday’s Epicenter Playlist on Epitonic.com alongside such bands as The National, The Antlers, Holy Ghost, Pinback and more! 

Stream the below playlist HERE

White Fences - Get That Heart
The National - Think You Can Wait
Seapony - Blue Star
Santah - White Noise Bed
Pinback - From Nothing to Nowhere
Man Man - Life Fantastic
The Rosebuds - Second Bird of Paradise
Holy Ghost - Wait and See
The Antlers - Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out
Futurebirds - Dirty D 

xoxo,
Chase No Sleep