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Boxcar Satan

No account no wave blues since 1993, motherfucker!

About Me

Boxcar Satan is a three-piece band from San Antonio, Texas, that deconstructs American roots music and pours a particularly venomous brand of self-loathing noise from the demon bottle. Depression-era Delta blues, post-industrial field hollers, free improvization and a healthy dose of post-punk skronk are fused together like quadruplets joined at the head. Call it no-account, no wave blues if you must cling to labels.Boxcar Satan guitarist/vocalist Sanford Allen and bassist Patrick Sane are alumni of Texas industrial terrorists Evil Mothers. Drummer Aaron Seibert is also a member of Austin's Gorch Fock. Since an early ‘90s formation in a haze of beer and gin, the band has churned out a substantial catalog of releases that have received critical praise from home and abroad. The angular, genre-jumping disks have drawn comparisons to Pere Ubu, Howlin’ Wolf, the Birthday Party, Muddy Waters, Captain Beefheart, Eric Dolphy and the Fall, among others. Boxcar Satan also has toured the United States over a half dozen times, playing everywhere from smoky dive bars and bingo halls to highbrow art galleries and San Francisco’s Church of Satan.

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Member Since: 11/23/2004
Band Website: boxcarsatan.com
Band Members: Sanford Allen, Patrick Sane, & Aaron Seibert.
Influences: John Lee Hooker, Einsturzende Neubauten, Charles Mingus, Beasts of Bourbon, Son House, Ernest Tubb, The Scientists, Butthole Surfers, Robert Pete Williams, Sun Ra, Scratch Acid, Eugene Chadbourne, The Stooges, The Contortions, Ry Cooder, Mississippi John Hurt, Ornette Coleman, Blue Oyster Cult, John Coltrane, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Skip James, Townes Van Zandt, The Dicks, Doc Boggs, The Minutemen, Throbbing Gristle, Roky Erickson, Can, Lightin' Hopkins, Derek Bailey...
Sounds Like: "Boxcar Satan sounds like the soundtrack to one of Hieronymus Bosch's freakscapes transplanted to the depression-era American South." -- The Houston Press, March 2004
Record Label: Dogfingers Records (www.dogfingers.com)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Boxcar Satan’s 15th Anniversary Party Sit-Ins & Who’s Who

Boxcar Satan's 15th Anniversary Party @ The Limelight 05 Apr 2008, 10:00 PM  N. St. Mary's, San Antonio, 78212 Three different line-ups of Boxcar Satan, loads of former members, and the original ...
Posted by Boxcar Satan on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:54:00 PST