Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweethearts in Bands,

As usual, The Deli’s Year End Poll (for emerging artists) will assign the cover of our Spring Issue 2010. The polling process is as complex as rocket science (if you want to try and get your head around it be our guest and go here).

The submissions for the open contest that will select minimum 3 artists for the next phase is now closed. We are currently receiving the jurors’ votes. The next phase will be the readers’ vote, which will start on January 3.

All the bands that submitted to our open contest were also added to our chart system – which will get them some exposure in the future. 

Here we are taking a little bit of a holiday break – we’ll still have some content up in the next few days, but not as much. We will see you back in early January – in the meantime Happy Holidays to you all!!

The Deli’s Staff
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The Octagon‘s new album "Warm Love and Cool Dreams Forever" was recorded on 2 Tascam 4 track cassette recorders – which will force us to move them from our "indie rock" chart to the "lo-fi" one. But the band’s music has always been lo-fi even when it wasn’t so on a technical level: their songs are brief bursts of almost disorganized energy somehow tied together by Zachary Mexico’s concise pop songs. The new album – out in early January – will be supported through an extended East Coast tour starting in Philly on 01.05.

Bronx native Rene Lopez grew up is NYC’s salsa clubs. Despite being a relatively new solo artist, Rene has been writing and performing music in the New York scene since the late 80s. Rene will be performing tracks from his recently released EP, Johnny Wants to Be A Matador, as well as new material for his forthcoming full-length, coming in 2010.

Semi Precious Weapons (who graced The Deli’s 16th issue cover) just announced additional US dates with Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball Tour through 2010! They will be performing all over the country, including a four-night stand at New York’s famed Radio City Music Hall. Semi Presious Justin Tranter is (to date) the only musician to appear in stilettos on the cover of our magazine.

The Deli of course will also contribute to the pool of prizes for the Year End Best of NYC Poll, for both the Overall and  Readers’ charts.

Here’s the list:

Overall Chart Prize (winner only)
Cover of The Deli’s Spring issue (out in Arpil 2010)

Overall Chart Prize for 2nd and 3rd place
Smaller Picture on The Deli’s Spring issue’s cover

Readers’ Chart Prize (winner only)
Full Feature on a Deli issue

Extra Prize for all nominees
writeup in The Deli’s Spring issue 2010

So look out for the Spring issue in April, as it will be entirely dedicated to the Best of NYC Poll and to the upcoming Best of NYC Fest, which will happen in the Spring of 2010, involving many of the artists included in our Best of.

The Deli’s Staff