Marko DeSantis is best known as the guitarist for American modern rock band Sugarcult; he grew up in Santa Barbara, California. With Sugarcult he has made 3 studio records, 2 DVDs, 1 live record, and toured internationally since 2001. Sugarcult have headlined tours, played many notable festivals (Glastonbury, Reading/Leeds, Summersonic, Warped Tour, etc), and were the opening act on Green Day’s “American Idiot” USA/Japan tours, and Blink 182’s final tour to name a few.
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- Marko DeSantis is best known as the guitarist for American modern rock band Sugarcult; he grew up in Santa Barbara, California. With Sugarcult he has made 3 studio records, 2 DVDs, 1 live record, and toured internationally since 2001. Sugarcult have headlined tours, played many notable festivals (Glastonbury, Reading/Leeds, Summersonic, Warped Tour, etc), and were the opening act on Green Day’s “American Idiot” USA/Japan tours, and Blink 182’s final tour to name a few. Tim Pagnotta asked him to join Sugarcult after meeting him at a Superdrag concert in 1999. DeSantis has had two side-projects with Lagwagon singer Joey Cape; the now defunct, Bad Astronaut and currently The Playing Favorites whose debut release "I Remember When I was Pretty... " features Marko singing lead vocals on 2 tracks he wrote ("Futuring" and "Whole Lotta Nothin"). He has also played in Nerf Herder, Swingin' Utters, The Lapdancers, The Ataris, Popsicko, Lost Kittenz. He has used various guitars across Sugarcult's records, but his main instrument is an Epiphone Elitist '65 Dot ES-335 guitar. He uses Bogner Shiva Amplifiers. As a bass player he uses Fender Precision basses. As a writer, DeSantis contributes to various publications such as Punk Rock Confidential Magazine and The Independent; he also contributes a regular column called "Can You Hear Me Now?" to the UK independent rock magazine, Black Velvet. As a guest DJ, DeSantis has spun his record collection at nightclubs in Japan, Russia, New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Salt Lake City, Austin, St. Louis and more. In the late 1990s he programmed and hosted a weekly specialty show on Santa Barbara modern rock station KJEEfm. As an educator/mentor, DeSantis has appeared as a guest speaker/panelist at several music conventions and academic programs: SXSW, Taxi, Citrus College, Kenshu (Japanese exchange). In the summer of 2009 he became the host/producer of weekly internet music television show Raw Rhythms on www. thestream. tv showcasing upcoming bands. Also, in late July of 2009, he was the director of the Washington DC branch of the rock fantasy camp for teens called Power Chord Academy.
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