Blog: Saturna

We are pleased to announce that Saturna song Periwinkle is featured during the closing credits in the upcoming film The Pact . The film will open during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where it has been selected to screen during their Midnight Series. Entertainment Weekly says, "This is a more classic horror film, working on tension. It's not about gore or violence. It's a ghost story, and really well done." The Pact was written [...]

Saturna is pleased to have been featured on NBC drama Chase starring Kelli Giddish, Cole Hauser and Jesse Metcalf. Saturna song Pop Rocks was included in the episode entitled Narco Part 1.

Ryan Carroll and Eric Block have been busily working in the studio on new recordings for their new band Ten Million Lights and are excited to announce that it is finished and being released on 10/12/10. It will contain eight new songs led off by new single "Kill Yr Idols". Ryan and Eric are joined by newcomer Emily Logan who adds vocals and guitar to all the tracks and rounds out their sound quite nicely. For all you Saturna fans, you will notice that Ten Million Lights is very reminiscent of the sound you love. How could it [...]

• Ten Million Lights - Kill Yr Idols

Saturna is thrilled to have been featured in Canadian indie film, The High Cost of Living starring Zach Braff , and Isabelle Blais, and directed by Deborah Chow. Saturna song Pop Rocks was used in the film that premiered at Toronto's International Film Festival. Not only was it amazing for the film to have been included in the film festival, but Deborah Chow collected the prestigious Skyy Vodka Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film.

Saturna is pleased to announce that both Pop Rocks and Springboard were featured in Canadian MTV show Peak Season . Pop Rocks was song featured on the opening scene of Episode 1 along with great tracks from The Raveonettes, The Stills, Morningwood and more. Springboard was featured on Episode 3, along with songs from Someone Still Loves Your Boris Yeltsen, Lights, DOA and tons more. Watch Peak Season here: http://www.mtv.ca/tvshows/peak -season/music.jhtml

Saturna is happy that Comedy Central show Secret Girlfriend has included their song Pop Rocks in Episode 2. Check out the show here: http://www.comedycentral.com/s hows/secret_girlfriend/index.j html

Thanks to Cristian from Miel Nube Hiel for including Saturna in his compilation called Vibrato 3. Cristian featured Saturna song Just For Thrills along with tons of amazing songs from Portland shoegaze artists like The Dandy Warhols, Swoon 23, The High Violets, The Prids, Charmparticles, The Upsidedown, Nordic, Stars of Track and Field and more.

Thanks to Marke Lassig in Germany on his blog Schall Grenzen for including Saturna in such great company when reviewing the new Darker My Love record. He said, "Bands like the Stooges, BRMC, Dandy Warhols, Lower Heaven, transport Calla, Saturna and similar cohorts quite been able to give me a permanent grin." Saturna is sad to see the great Ekko go as news of the demis of his blog Berkeley Place surfaced last week. Ekko was a big Saturna supporter and we will miss [...]

Saturna is excited to announce that their song " Pop Rocks " was featured on Canadian television show House Party , episode 4 entitled "Mandy". House Party also featured songs from Scottish band 1990s , that Saturna shared the stage with in Portland, OR.

Saturna is excited that Straight Magazine reports that one of their hero's, Bob Mould named them as one of his recent favorite bands and ask them to open for him on his upcoming tour. Easily Fooled , a blog from San Francisco reviewed the show that Saturna opened for Bob Mould at The Great American Music Hall saying, "Saturna opened the show, and they sounded really good, both poppy and rock-and I don't mean emo! Their guitarist, especially, produced some wonderful tones. One song [...]

Check out the new review of Saturna's Some Delicious Enemy in Twangville . Todd says, "Hints of BRMC, The Tender Idols and Primal Scream abound on Saturna's new album Some Delicious Enemy . Lush guitars, delay and feedback mixed with pulsing drums make the Portland, Oregon band a great find for fans of Brit-Pop." Thanks to Indie Dance Floor for including an mp3 of Saturna's Pop Rocks along with amazing songs from Goldfrapp, Nick Cave, The Long Blondes, Cut Copy and tons more.

Saturna have just returned from a west coast tour with Bob Mould and have had the time of our lives. We hit San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver BC and thanks to Bob played amazing venues to sold out crowds. We made tons of new friends and [...]

Saturna are pleased to have been included in the March Mix from the After Hours blog along with R.E.M., Lightspeed Champion, and M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel's new project She & Him. They also announced Saturna's upcoming tour with Bob Mould and stated that Saturna, "Brings a deliciously dirty rock with a touch of a [...]

Thanks to Sonic Slang for writing about Saturna's upcoming tour with Bob Mould. They also posted an mp3 of Pop Rocks and said it was, "A groovy slice of indie pop that we're diggin' so far. Think dream/psych in the vein of Dandy Warhols and you're on the right track." Pop Rocks also won [...]

In the last couple of weeks Saturna has been getting radio airplay and press in advance of our tour with Bob Mould. Jay Ziegler of Consequence of Sound wrote a nice article about Some Delicious Enemy and says Saturna has, "swirling shoegaze and dreamy pop textures large enough to fill a football field." Altrok radio included [...]

Saturna are excitedly getting ready for tour in support of Bob Mould and wanted to thank a bunch of people on the web for the buzz they've help create. Big thanks to OurStage.com who earlier this week featured Saturna as Rock Artist of the Day. They also included Saturna in their recent press release on [...]

Saturna are excited and honored to announce that we have been invited to go on tour with Bob Mould of Husker Du & Sugar fame. Bob Mould is on tour in support of his new album District Line. Bob Mould's band includes Jason Narducy and Brendan Canty of Fugazi. Saturna will be [...]

Saturna is excited to announce that we will be doing some touring during the month of March. We're putting it all together right now and will announce dates and the headliner soon, but keep your eyes peeled, this is going to be huge! I want to take a second to thank Kyra Reed for her amazing [...]

Saturna are excited to have inked a deal with Toronto outfit, Bearsuit Publishing to license their music to TV, film and other media. Bearsuit have been licensing songs on shows like The Hills, Dirt, The L-Word, Grey's Anatomy, Numb3rs, and tons more. By signing with Bearsuit, Saturna are joining a team of great [...]

There have been quite a few Saturna mentions and shout outs lately in the blog world. Thanks to Bag of Songs for the shout out in their review of Panda Riot. They said that if you dig Saturna you'll like Panda Riot and we agree. Music of the Moment included Saturna song Much More in their list [...]