New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
Wakey!Wakey! released a single featuring an acoustic version of "Brooklyn" on Monday December 7th. That same day the song was played on the TV show One Tree Hill. The single contains "Clinton St. Girl" as a B-Side, which you can download here. The Digital 7" debuted Top 20 on Itunes Alternative Albums & Singles Charts. Lookout for a Wakey!Wakey! full album in 2010.
Our friends at Bloodshot Records certainly seem to be in the holiday spirit. And lucky for us, they are celebrating the holidays with a massive sale at Bloodshot Records.com.
Albums by such Bloodshot artists as Ryan Adams, the Detroit Cobras, the Blacks, and the Old 97s are on sale right now—some as low as $5—making them perfect ideas for this season’s gift exchange.
The label is also holding a festive contest, the 15 Days of Bloodshot. When you order any Bloodshot merch between now and December 21, you will be entered to win 1 of 15 awesome prize-packs from SPIN, the AV Club, KEXP, No Depression, and others.
BloodshotRecords.com will once again be featuring Dex Romweber’s “Dark Christmas” as a free download, to help ring in the holiday cheer, Bloodshot style. Visit their giveaways sections to collect your free download, and while you’re at it, visit their online store to finish some Christmas shopping—and snag your chance at winning one of those coveted prize-packs. – Neph Basedow
The Beatards are a rather over the top multi ethnic electro-hip hop NYC band comprised of 3 DJs of Indian, Jewish and Korean descent (how cosmopolitan of them!) The band, which already had over 20 of their songs licensed to multiple shows on MTV and HBO, is going to release their debut album in 2010. Their newest single "Don’t Step On My Sneakers" is due out January 12. The Beatards are scheduled to perform at the next Mixtape Riot! Party with Ninjasonic on December 16 at Sutra Lounge on 1st ave and 1st Street in Manhattan.
Steel Phantoms is a very new band from Brooklyn, their sound spans from noise to new wave to crisp, riff-heavy pop. They have two lead vocalists. Check them out live at Glasslands on Dec. 12 with Calypso, No Place, and The Chairs. Free Williamsburg says about them: "Billy Joel quits chasing Uptown Girls, moves in w/ Jonathan Richman" – Earfarm says "Actually Pretty Good." – (as posted in The Deli’s Open Blog – post your band’s entries, videos, and Mp3s here).
Homesick Elephant | "Hold Me Close"
One of The Deli LA’s favorite folk outfits Homesick Elephant are playing a free set tonight (Thursday) at Hyperion Tavern. Their live sets are so damn fun and cute that we just want to pinch their figurative cheek, so check out the melodic-laden duo when they hit the stage at 9. Did we mention it’s free?
Sara Tan
The last thing you’d expect from a big-eyed, porcelain-faced indie-pop princess would be a curse word or a dirty joke, let alone a song about going deep (emotionally, that is) or being the "other" woman—but it was obvious from the get-go that Meiko felt right at home. Maybe that’s the reason why fans flooded the Hotel Cafe Tuesday night for her impromptu set filled with her melancholy tunes about love, heartbreak, and frustrations, complete with personal anecdotes about breaking her nose and wanting to murder Santa (kidding, of course). Meiko, fresh from her tour with Jewel, stood solo sans her band for a charming acoustic performance of old and new songs including “Reasons to Love You” and her own seductive Christmas carol “Maybe Next Year (X-mas Song).” It was a warm homecoming for the once-upon-a-time Hotel Cafe waitress whose deeply rich, yet sweet sounding voice continues to reel us in. -Sara Tan
Musical peoples from Austin and beyond.
A few weeks are left before the end of 2009, and the time has come for our end of year musical "summary". Yes, you got that right: The Deli’s "Best of (emerging) Austin 2009" Poll is upon us!
This year we are going to try to involve everybody on different levels: the readers, our jury of selected scene makers, our writers and – of course – the emerging local artists. The process we have implemented to choose the Best emerging Austin Artist of 2009 is a little complicated – if you are interested in knowing how it works please go here.
We’ll just tell you that there will be prizes for the winners, such as: Deli promotion, free studio time, audio software + more!
But as we know most readers’ attention span is limited, so we prefer to keep things simple on the homepage: in the next two entries under here you’ll find what you can do if you want to be involved.
Have fun, and may the best music triumph!
[May also some people NOT get mad at us for some reason… it happens every year during the year end poll!!!]
The Deli Staff
www.thedelimagazine.com
P.S. Oh and if new posts here at The Deli Austin will be a little slow in the next few weeks, it’s because our Austin Editor Tom just had twin girls!!! Double congrats Tom from all the Deli staff!
Three nominees for our Year End Best of Austin Poll will be chosen through an Open Contest (the other from a jury of local "scene makers"). Submit your music for The Deli’s Best of Austin Year End Poll HERE by 12.17.2009. By submitting, you will also add your band to our chart system – which will get you some exposure in the future. To be eligible your band needs to have music available online and have played live at least once in 2009 (and not to be signed to a major).
Let us know what you think is the best emerging artist of 2009 with a comment (click on "Add New Comment" under this blog entry), we want to hear the voice of the people!!! Besides, your comments may impress our writers who will have to choose the 3 nominees coming from the open contest above…
The Deli Staff
What’s better than The Cool Kids, stop motion, and action figures? The Cool Kids live and in person. Don’t miss The Cool Kids at Reggies’ tonight with Bun B and Chip The Ripper. Tickets are $20.
2009 has been quite a year in the life of Blane Fonda. Also, it’s been the only year – way back in 2008 Blane was just a glimmer in the eyes of Blane’s forbearers. Within this year, we’ve been extremely fortunate with great shows and support here at home, and more recently, some memorable shows out of town. So many thanks to everyone who has helped us so far.
There’s lots of fun stuff in the works for Blane in 2010, but before we get to that, we’re closing out 2009 with our last show of the year here in Chicago. Tonight, December 10, Blane Fonda joins Bamboo Shoots (Epic Records) and The Embraceables for a show at Bottom Lounge. It’s a big room they got at Bottom Lounge so hopefully there will be lots of bodies in there. If not, we’re changing our name to the Island Margarita Dads and moving to Hilton Head where vacationers will buy us drinks and we can sing songs of adventure at sea, probably. – Charlie Nadler
After a slight delay, EAR FARM and Let ‘Em In Studios announced the release of Do you EAR what I EAR?, a holiday album for the Association to Benefit Children, available as a digital download exclusively on EAR FARM’s Store Page for a suggested minimum donation of $5.00. Do you EAR what I EAR? features original and classic holiday songs from many local artists, including Sean Bones (in the picture), Asobi Seksu, Sharon Van Etten, and many more. The proceeds of the record go directly to the Association to Benefit Children, a New York-based service dedicated to permanently break the cycles of abuse, neglect, sickness and homelessness among disadvantaged children and their families.