New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
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Blues-rock quintet Terraplane Sun is playing at The Basement Tavern tomorrow night on the Westside. I must say, it’s quite the perfect venue for the band. Alongside the back corner of The Victorian Hotel in Santa Monica, you’ll probably see a chalkboard with drink specials scribbled artistically and an arrow pointing down…leading to a gritty set of stairs to what feels like an underground hot spot hidden among the streets of Manhattan’s lower east side. The Basement is a dimly lit bar with tasteful decor and artsy swagger (from shelves stacked with books to glass tables), perfect for a jazz band, a poet, or in this case, some good ol’ bluesy rock ‘n’ roll. The shenanigans begin at 9 pm.
Terraplane has also released another live recording of "Slow Train", one of their songs off of their brand new album, "Coyote".
–Jenna Putnam
Cracker Wrist by Bardo Pond
Pepper Rabbit – "Harvest Moon" Video from stereogum on Vimeo.
The winner of the Best of Chicago Open Poll Submission is Very Truly Yours! We had a lot of great submissions, and had two editors from other Deli cities rank the finalist. Below are the top ten musicians, and all ten of these bands will be added to our year end Best of Chicago Emerging Artists 2010 Poll. However the charming twee-pop sounds of Very Truly Yours won over our editors.
1. Very Truly Yours
2. Está Vivo
3. Julie Meckler
4. Scattered Trees
5. Canasta
6. Chaperone!
7. Soft Speaker
8. Nathan Xander & Witchouse
9. Gemini Club
10. Unicycle Loves You
We started publishing the results of the open submissions for our Best of NYC Emerging Artists 2010 Poll. As we received about 500 submissions we decided to organize the rating process by genre. As things are getting a little scattered around the site we though it might be useful to gather all the links to the various result blurbs in one place on top of our NYC site – here we go:
NEW YORK CITY
– ALT FOLK – results here
– ALT ROCK + REVIVAL ROCK – results here
– AVANT INDIE + ELECTRO ROCK – results here
– HIP HOP + OTHER DANCEY GENRES – results here
– INDIE POP + MELLOW CORE – results here
– INDIE ROCK + POST PUNK – results here
– MIXED ROOTSY GENRES – results here
– PSYCH ROCK, SHOEGAZER, NOISE ROCK, LO -FI – results here
– SINGER SONGWRITERS – results here
– SONIC BIDS SUBMISSIONS – results here
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AUSTIN: Open Submissions – SonicBids
CHICAGO: Open Submissions – SonicBids
LOS ANGELES: Open Submissions – SonicBids
NASHVILLE: Open Submissions – SonicBids
NEW ENGLAND: Open Submissions – SonicBids
PHILADELPHIA: Open Submissions – SonicBids
PORTLAND: Coming Soon
SF BAY AREA: Open Submissions – SonicBids
WASHINGTON – BALTIMORE: Open Submissions – SonicBids
Readers’ Polls are now happening, final charts should be ready towards late january – early February.
The Deli Staff
LIST OF PRO AUDIO PRIZES FOR POLL WINNERS HERE!
Portland OR Indie Pop quartet Derby will be releasing their new record, "Madeline", in mid-February. It will be a digital release (available everywhere music is sold digitally!), along with a limited edition 7” vinyl record featuring two of the songs, "Don’t Believe In You" and "One’s A Lonely One". Derby is feeling invigorated and you can surely tell in these new recordings. The band approached "Madeline" with an increased degree of spontaneity and impulse. This “act first, think about it later” attitude gave them a new-found freedom in recording music, resulting in a fresh, new sound for the band. Derby’s new material departs from the well-orchestrated pop of their sophomore release Posters Fade — which created buzz on college radio and gained visibility with placements in Coca-Cola commercials, MTV’s The Hills and a variety of film and commercial exposure. – Veronica Medici
Whether you’ve seen him in a sport coat, thick-rimmed glasses, or his ever-present beard, Andy Clockwise is a sight to behold. Raw, energetic garage rock mixed with new wave dance beats and Clockwise’s tenor vocals, songs like "My Generation", "Everybody’s in a band", and "Remember Love" show off his musical range tremendously.
Andy Clockwise will be performing tonight at the El Ray with other LA staples Abandoned Pools, Eastern Conference Champions, and Aaron Lee & the Love Vigilantes. Along with the stellar lineup, his newest LP, The Socialite, is available for purchase two months before other mere mortals can get their hands on it. Tickets are still available here for bit longer before the doors open at 7pm.
-Angelo Lorenzo
Arriving at Exit/In just in time to catch the last song of their set, I missed out on Ian Ferguson’s Brett Dennen-like vocals and the garage-roots rock of the Kingston Springs. Tesla Rossa was up next, channeling a plethora of influences from Ryan Adams to the Strokes in their explosive and vaguely glamorous rock product. Frontman Jason Denton is a small package, but he has a swagger and strong stage presence that commands attention. The songs had anthem appeal and were guitar-heavy, though very distinct bass parts competed with the guitars. Bassist Aaron Wahlman got further validation from a girl standing next to me who said, “I think we know this guy’s a badass” to a friend whose response was, “Uh yeah, he’s wearing moccasins.”
After Tesla Rossa, the Jompson Brothers were up, a motley and very talented crew that includes both a backwoods Buddy Holly bassist (J.T. Cure) and a bear of a lead singer (Chris Stapleton formerly of the Steeldrivers) who looks like he stumbled out of a Broadway honky tonk. They didn’t mess around, playing a forceful and Southern-fried set of hard-driving rock n roll. Show attendance had peaked at this point, and the house was pretty packed with indie onlookers in the back and boozy dancers up front. But by the time The Hollywood Ten went on, things had simmered down, though the band held their own with warbling keys, tambourine shakes and tight guitars to close the show. – Jessica Pace