Video: Dan Sartain Atheist Funeral Official Video

The Alabama rocker delivers a third album mixing punchy rock 'n' roll spark with a dose of creeping dread. Dan Sartain can't help but come across as the paranoid type. His features are lean and intense, shaded behind dark glasses and crowned by a jet-black tsunami of a greaser cut. He radiates something both threatening and vulnerable; a strange hybrid of Nicholas Ray's Jim and Plato vibrating across the stage in surf-rock spasms. His musical style, all spaghetti-surf and smooth rockabilly panache cut through with red-stained slashes of fear and loathing, has been honed...

DOWNLOAD: Dan Sartain - Atheist Funeral (MP3) Lucero @ BV SXSW 2010 ( more by Tim Griffin ) Lucero , J Roddy Walston and The Business , and the just-added Jonny Corndawg will be playing the Beach at Governors Island on Saturday, July 10th for the next show in the Gone to Governors series . That evening show is free, though you'll want to get there early to [...]

Dan Sartain has posted the new video for the first single from his upcoming album. The record is titled Dan Sartain Lives' and is due out July 20, 2010 . Lives was produced by Grammy Award winner Liam Watson (The White Stripes, ex-Stranglers Hugh Cornwell) and is the long awaited follow-up to the 2006 full length Join Dan Sartain . That album was released on John Reis' Swami Records . Sartain will be supporting the album this summer on a tour with Social Distortion .

Words: Gareth O’Malley Dan Sartain lives. His first album in four years is going to be called just that in fact - seems rather eager to get the message out that he is Back and Making Music Again. It’s out May 31st, and if the lead single is anything to go by it’s sure to be more fun than you can shake a stick at. ‘Atheist Funeral’ is an absolute romp; a short and sweet (two-and-a-half-minute) riff-driven gem that sets the bar high for his fifth (though most will say third due to [...]