Dame Satan

Bio
Dame Satan is a West Coast Stew stirred by East Coast Men containing Fine Folk Traditions, Space Blankets, Noisy Blessings, and a Few History Lessons. All Messages and Moods within were cooked up by Human Voices, Words arranged in Meaningful Congress, Acoustic and Electric Instruments, and Effects.

Dame Satan played their first show in July of 2004 and have since toured all over the United States, sharing stages with the likes of Akron/Family, Dead Meadow, Vetiver, Sunset Rubdown, Adam Green, Man Man, Asobi Sesku, and Nina Nastasia.

They have put out two full-length albums: 2008's Beaches and Bridges, and Ghost Mansion way back in 2004, as well a split 7" record with Sacramento's Two Sheds in 2007.

Press
"Beaches and Bridges, the second long-play album by Dame Satan, is a leviathan of a record that'll displace mass amounts of air from your speakers, whether it's creeping along or flowing with speed and soul. The sounds it contains are huge, surreal, and timeless, easily holding their ground when compared to your parents' musical documentations of progression, folk, harmony, and psychedelia."
– Thrasher Magazine
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"Beaches and Bridges. It’s a stunning, expansive album that swells and breathes, building on impressive vocal interplay and tasteful musicianship... These guys know how to write songs. At once dense and spare, this album has served me well at home, through headphones, and on long drives across the country. In the end, with as much as I have tried to explain how awesome this album is, I do not believe words can do it justice. Just go get it and make sure your friends have it, too."
– The Bay Bridged Best of 2008

"To describe Dame Satan with titles like folk, psychedelic, or blues isn't quite enough. Sure, these descriptions apply to the San Francisco outfit, but they feel a bit inadequate. Dame Satan play like a hypnotic and wandering ghost shrouded in Alabama mist. These guys are out there, yet the songs are brilliantly spooky, unavoidably beautiful, and reminiscent of the days when music held magic. Soaked in bittersweet transcendence, the four members play off each other as if possessed by a telepathic harmony and nuanced grandeur. Their latest album, Beaches and Bridges, is required listening for anyone thinking of expanding consciousness some afternoon."
– Charlie Swanson for Noise Pop Festival 2009

"It sounds like my recurring daydream with string lights outside a party on a summer evening, which is to say it sounds like Akron/Family's first album. I saw them play in, essentially, this very setting; all I remember, though, is riding my bike to the show and sitting with old friends."
– Bows + Arrows Best of 2008

"Mutant mountain music...[t]he influences, among them, British folk, English post-psychedelic blues rock, spare Delta blues, and the sort of weird Americana the Grateful Dead sometimes hinted at, melded into an original whole..."
– Sacramento News and Views

"Little 'r' rock with sweetly scented underpine."
–The Wire Magazine

"Druggy, dusky-hued country folks who slink about in the shadows."
– Aquarius Records

"Nuanced, heartfelt folk songs that sound like they could have been written anytime in the past century."
– Time Out New York

"...Beaches and Bridges is spot-on. Immediately striking [is] the music's resemblance to two traits seemingly at odds with each other: Fleet Foxes' stateliness and Akron/Family's gloriously buoyant weirdness. [T]o find them in something equally realized but essentially different from either is wonderfully impressive."
– Bows + Arrows

"...Beaches and Bridges is a genre-bending exploration of the last 50 years'-worth of Americana, folk, and psychedelic music. It's all got a timeless, rickety feel that sends shivers down the spine."
– Flavorpill