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Santa Marias

If You Like a Mime, You Are a Mime

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NYC's Santa Marias is a smart, strong, expressive trio with a penchant for the cranky who've got a recipe for sound that supports their diverse/insane musical tastes - from Godspell, to Sonic Youth, to PJ Harvey, to Trini Lopez, to Shellac.
These tri-borough noise-pop girls rock an fierce blend of bare-naked vocals and yearning lyrics that suggests an allegiance to the early pop vocal arrangements of girl groups like the Shangri-La's set against an articulately produced garage-pop sound of dirty, noisy, rusty guitars.
Santa Marias rose out of the ashes of several highly regarded NYC rock acts. The line up: chief songwriter Mitzi Dodge (STP, the Friggs), Palmyra Delran (The Friggs, Pink Slip Daddy), and Betsy Todd (MotorDolly, Old Baby). After the dissolution of the Friggs, Dodge and Delran began playing shows as a guitar and drum duo. One stormy night fate stepped in, in the form of Betsy Todd, also an improv comedian (UCB Theater, Magnet Theater) to fill the bill as bassist & vocalist. In 2002, they released one full-length, raw, garagey CD as The Booty Olympics. Five years later, having evloved sonicly among other things, the three reinvented.
Santa Marias' energetic, and unpredictable live shows stand in stark contrast to the shoegazers and “too cool for school” attitudes of most NYC bands. If Santa Marias have had a good or bad day, or heard a crappy joke, you can be sure they're gonna tell you about it....either in, or in between songs.
Recorded in NYC and mixed by the production team Super Buddha (Rufus Wainwright, Debbie Harry, Scissor Sisters), Santa Marias' self-titled, full-length debut was released in the the fall of 2007.
Ladies and Gentlemen, here are Santa Marias.

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Member Since: 2/13/2007
Band Website: santamariasnyc.com
Band Members: MITZI DODGE - Guitar, Vocals PALMYRA DELRAN - Tubs & Shakers BETSY TODD - Bass, Vocals
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Record Label: don't even
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Mitzi Dodge @ Lincoln Center!

How fucking cool is this?!It's August 15th. It's Free. It's going to be AMAZING. I'm REALLY psyched.all the love,mComposer Rhys Chatham and section leaders John King, Ned Sublette, David Daniell, and ...
Posted by Santa Marias on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:41:00 PST

Ready, Set, DRUMMER SEARCH!

Hey!So...we're bummed to report that our very own madcap drummer, Palmyra Delran, is no longer playing with Santa Marias. I know right? What the eff? Uggh!But...PDR's got a lot of stuff happening solo...
Posted by Santa Marias on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:34:00 PST

SANTA MARIAS ON SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO

Hey!So...both "Trip and Fall" and "Mercury, the Sun & Moon" from our new self-titled CD have been getting steady airplay on SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO'S channel 70, "SIRIUS DISORDER." Please keep it going...
Posted by Santa Marias on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:30:00 PST

Check out this event: MAD! SAD! GLAD! - SANTA MARIAS!!!

Hosted By: Santa Marias When: Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 at 8:00 PMWhere: The Living Room154 Ludlow StNY, New York|33 10002United StatesDescription:Santa Marias Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Santa Marias on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:41:00 PST