Y’all know Braden Anderson as the drummer for local desert rock band St. Range (formerly The Strange), but did you also know he’s working hard with new online magazine los foodies (losfoodiesmagazine.com)? We caught up with Anderson to ask about the new site as well as the upcoming St. Range show at Boxcar (9:30 pm Friday, Jan. 29, 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222)
What the heck is Los Foodies?
We're an online digital magazine targeted at foodies, and we also make it a point to work with local restaurants that are all about sustainability and community ... farm-to-table, mom 'n' pop kind of places with great food and great service. Santa Fe has the most restaurants per capita in the country, and we want to get that information out there to the people who want it.
And your band is still going, too?
Yeah, as St. Range, which was a really easy name change—we just put a point to it. We lost a guitarist but brought back our original keyboardist, Mitchell Lacassagne. He was one of the originators, and things have exploded sonically. Our guitarist Justin [Lindsey] and I had talked for years about adding synth or electronics in some way, and whereas we were so rigidly rock before, we can now do that. If someone comes to the show, they'll still recognize us as The Strange, but we have reimagined a few of the older songs and written some new material. We can get ethereal or sound more like world music. It's sounding great, and we're a lot more open now.
So what's next then?
We're fundraising, because we need a van, but we're definitely going to be touring and trying to take it more national. If we were comfortable playing Evangelo's every other Friday, that would be one thing, but with the way the songwriting is going, we're ready to go further, and now we're just trying to keep it DIY and more self-sustainable. Why can't there be a green band?
Santa Fe Reporter