New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
Village has released their new album Local Moves, and you can download it for free through soundcloud. The band combines elements of surf pop, lo-fi, and even a touch of rockabilly (see "Eye Sore"). The album raw, but energtic and great winter’s day listen.
Village will be performing at Empty Bottle on Feb. 10th with Maximum Wage.
The Dirges play energetic Irish sounding rock with a punk edge. The band has been around the scene a while and has toured with bands such as Flogging Molly and Millencolin. Their aggressive, hyper-fun sound would fit into the atmosphere of an Irish pub with Jameson flowing and Guiness foaming. They are playing two upcoming shows at Piano Bar in Hollywood…one of them is tomorrow, the 25th and the other is on February 8th. So come out, grab a pint, and start the week off right!
–Jenna Putnam
Drew Smith’s classic americana pop songs are a dynamic projection of simple, efficient songwriting and a genuine depth of artistic delivery. His mix of heartfelt, visually descriptive lyrics and masterful compositions make Drew Smith’s music as unique as it is encompassing. TED SONGS, by Drew Smith, is the sixth release from the Austin, Texas based recording artist. Shifting away from the inspiration and soulful pop of The Lonely Choir album, this collection of songs was stirred by a new acoustic framed project called TED. The group is comprised of multi instrumentalist Brian Beken (South Austin Jug Band), accomplished percussionist Rob Hooper and Lonely Choir bassist Ryan Bowman. Drew and his bandmates recorded the material in February of 2010 during a “magical” weeklong snowstorm in Brooklyn, NY with producer Roger Greenwalt (Ben Kweller, The Pierces). From this creative council, Drew Smith came away with five songs full of characters, storylines, adhering hooks and yet another dimension of color and tone in his musical landscape. Still, this landmark is just one spot on Drew Smith’s horizon for 2011. More music releases are expected from The Lonely Choir and the most recent shape in Drew’s musical kaleidoscope, a 70’s suit & tie three-piece rock band called All The Elements.
(Ed.: this post taken from Drew Smith’s post on our DIY Open Blog, check out other Open Blog posts in the Deli Kitchen.)
You get a lot more than you bargain for from this three-piece folk act from just outside of Portland. Spotless folk-harmonies come out electrified and blaringly energetic, turning what would be plainer songs into sing-alongs, anthems and for all that it’s worth, an all out dance party. I haven’t seen these boys live yet without being surrounded by a gaggle of people with their dancin’ shoes on and their drinkin’ heels kickin’. It always seems like everyone at the venue knows all the words to "Oh I Don’t Know", bringing to mind old saloons filled with everyone singing the same old tunes, while still holding a certain folk precision that might make one think of Simon & Garfunkel. Fanno Creek is painting the Alberta Street Pub red on January 31st with the help of The Steelwells from Fullerton, California.
Tell Em (Sleigh Bells) by Diplo RMX
The latest video session from Giant System features the sweet and soulful sounds of Boutros.
Congrats to The Silver Liners (pictured), who won The Deli’s Best of Washington/Baltimore Emerging Aritsts Fans’ Poll 2010, followed by Caustic Casanova and King Giant. The full results of the fans’ poll can be found here. We’ll soon publish also the results of the composite chart including the jurors’ and Deli writers’ votes – stay tuned! (photo © Jeff Johns, 2010)
Congrats to Ravens & Chimes, who won the fans section os our The Deli’s Best of NYC Emerging Aritsts Poll 2010. The intense, NY based indie pop quartet was followed by rootsy noisemakers The Loom and funksters Turkuaz. We embedded the top 20 at the bottom of this blurb – check all these bands out, this year we have some great variety!
A pool of 100+ artists were selected in December 2010 mostly by local scene makers (concert promoters, bloggers, etc, full list here) and part of them through an open submission process. We let the fans vote and these are the results as far as the top 20 positions. We will soon publish the other results, including the jurors’ top 10s and the full composite charts wich will assign the cover of our spring issue of The Deli Magazine.
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Saturday night proved to be a toughie when it came to choosing which show to go to, given the options of Mercy Lounge’s 8th anniversary soiree, Chris Pureka at The Basement, or Matthew Perryman Jones. In the end, I opted to go see the homecoming of indie folk singer/songwriter, Sharon Van Etten. She used to live in nearby Murfreesboro before she moved to Brooklyn to begin performing her material, and eventually record two albums, so there was quite the crowd that was eager to see her finally perform in Nashville again.
I arrived to catch the very end of Jasmin Kaset’s set, which was a bummer because I’ve heard such good things about her recently, but have yet to see a full live performance. Her voice can best be described as a more blessed descendant of Deb Talan’s (lead singer of The Weepies), put into a similar musical context but with some electronic and indie-pop influences, and a greater use of harmonies. Songs like “Food,” and “Window Shopping,” demonstrate Kaset’s ability to create catchy folk/pop songs that transform into deeply layered valleys of sound. She recently released an album, “Hell and Half of Jordan,” which can be listened to and purchased here.
Next was Julianna Barwick, who has been opening for Sharon on the tour, and added some nice variety to the lineup, but was, unfortunately, ill-suited for the racket that was created at the 5 Spot. I couldn’t really hear the majority of her set, which consisted of her doing a lot of potentially cool tricks with looping her voice, but I think it was probably supposed to sound like a girlier, less-experimental Sigur Ros or Animal Collective. Collectively, the drunkies on Saturday night could’ve probably just done with one opener, and seemed more than ready for Sharon to perform by the time she actually took the stage. She probably only played 7 or 8 tunes, and they were mostly more “up-tempo” ones from her most recent album, “Epic”–up-tempo at least for Sharon Van Etten, that is. Even in a live setting, she sounded just like she does in recordings: effortlessly emitting her unusual lines with a lilting breathlessness that makes me think of her as having perfected the art of doing tasteful runs in an indie capacity, (which is something that sets her apart from comparable artists); these runs were also nicely complemented by the band.
Thank goodness she brought that harmonium along with her too, because it created the perfect foundation for her melodies to meander over. She made use of it on the especially gorgeous closer, “Love More,” which was another fine example of her atypically-poetic lyrical tendencies. Van Etten’s music managed to offer the same glimpses of beauty that her recordings have, and Nashville is happy to claim her as a past resident–even though she technically lived in Murfreesboro. Good luck to her on the rest of her tour.–Erin Manning
Here is the top 10 (or, rather, the top 9) of the Juror’s vote section of The Deli’s Best of NYC 2010 Emerging Artists Poll.
This poll was EXTREMELY fragmented: 29 jurors (out of the 40+ we contacted) expressed their vote for their 3 favorite emerging NYC artists of 2010, and only 9 of these artists – the ones in this list – received multiple votes.
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Twin Shadow (pic below) is a rather predictable winner – the mustoachoed Brooklynite came out of nowhere in 2010 with a record produced and released by Grizzly Bear’s own Chris Bear, that was met with widespread critical acclaim.
On the other hand, it’s rather unexpected the result of the faceless, 80s inspired dance outfit Games – tied on #1 – who were also the only band, together with lo-fi heroes Oberhofer (3rd in this chart, pic below), to receive 3 juror votes.
Lia Ices, tied on 3rd place with her ethereal and haunting songs that recently found home at Jagjaguar records.
Tied at #4 five very original indie bands, including the brutally innovative Buke and Gass, Dream Diary‘s beautifully blurred melodies, Ava Luna‘s doo wop infused indie pop, Fang Island‘s "indie arena rock", and Oh Land‘s Scandinavian sophistication.
SPEND THE NIGHT WITH GAMES – Side A by Games
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