New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
After the DC based rock/soul quartet the Honeyguns were pushed to the lead in a recent poll DC Deli held to determine it’s early May band/artist of the month, we were able to track down guitarist Henry Appy, who let us in on what being a Honeygun is all about. Check it out here…
And also catch them live at the Rock & Roll Hotel on Friday June 3rd with DC’s alt. rockers The Chance, and DC’s rock band the Electric 11s.
NORTH BY NORTHEAST announces the third wave of bands for the 17th edition of the festival, taking over Toronto June 13-19, 2011. NXNE has just confirmed that LA local punk heroes OFF!, will perform along with Devo, Stars, The Pharcyde, Land of Talk, Digable Planets, Descendents, and Men Without Hats. Newly announced as part of the NXNE Music Festival are HANDSOME FURS, previewing tracks from the new album Sound Kapital, GRIMES with her genre-bending pop, retro Manhattan garage-pop stars THE POSTELLES, Los Angeles four-piece SUPERHUMANOIDS, Portland folk outfit HORSE FEATHERS, Pixies tour mates IMAGINARY CITIES, action comic-punk band PEELANDER Z, Nashville garage punks HEAVY CREAM and critically acclaimed one-man band GUARDS. 17 Years, 650 Bands, 50 Stages, 40 Films, 75 Interactive Conference Sessions, 7 Days.
The Somerville Porchfest is taking place this Saturday, May 21. Essentially, it’s like open studios for musicians. The event started four years ago in Ithaca and local music-lover, Nancy Goodman, thought it’d be great to replicate it in Somerville, MA, with support from the Somerville Arts Council.
There will be 75+ musicians/bands performing on porches throughout Somerville during the afternoon of May 21st — and they really run the gamut of types of music. Ranging from bollywood funk, cosmic americana, blues, Moroccan, Balkan, gospel, American space rock and clawhammer banjo.
The city will be divided into three sections and each will have two hour time slots: Union Square and East Somerville musicians play from 12-2, Winter Hill and Ball Square from 2-4 and Porter, Davis, and Teele from 4-6. Look for red balloons on participating houses! This event will happen rain or shine. Maps are available via the website.
–Chrissy Prisco
Weathervane Music is a non-profit organization that create community funded projects to support and advance the careers of deserving independent musicians. They just release Volume 2, Episode 5 of their Shaking Through series – their music and video web series that documents “the birth of a song” by an emerging independent artist in a professional, high-end recording studio. The episode features NJ heroes Big Troubles (#26 in our 2010 Best of NYC Emerging Artists Poll). The song, “Phantom,” is the first full band recording since the album, Worry, and marks the first Big Troubles recording to be produced in a professional studio. Big Troubles will release “Phantom” as the B-side to the first single on their fall 2011 album produced by Mitch Easter (Pavement, R.E.M.), which will be licensed and released by Slumberland Records. The band will play the Bell House in Brooklyn, on May 20th and Maxwell’s in Hoboken on May 21st before leaving to tour Europe with Julian Lynch and Ducktails.
Well, I’ve posted quite a bit about the new Company of Thieves album, and finally today is the day it officially is released. If you can’t waiting for you copy to arrive in the mail or the iTunes download is taking too long you can stream the album over at Spinner while you wait.
Interesting show at Electric Bowery on May 18 with two emerging NYC based bands. Fort Lean (top pic) is Bottle Up & Go’s Keenan Mitchell side project, also dwelling in Americana and Rock, but with a less aggressive, more melodic, sometimes even crooning approach. The Shining Twins (bottom pic), is a female fronted trio that sounds like a simplified version of The Pixies without Frank Black. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that whoever sings the song "Ted" is Kim Deal’s illegitimate daughter (with a better wardrobe). Other songs are more on the garagey side of things
I’ve said a thing or two about Aan in the past, and they just keep getting better. Following their latest EP, I Could Be Girl For You, Aan will be releasing two crisp tracks tonight at Bunk Bar on freshly pressed vinyl – a 7" that might scare or serenade your turntable, or do both. The show starts at 10, and it’s free, so the wiser part of my show-going would recommend getting there a bit early. The hungrier part of me would recommend the same. Maybe get there early enough to take a nap after eating your intense sandwich, so you can be rested for the intensity of Aan.
The Deli sponsored 5th Annual LC Fest, organized by independent music community Local Correspondents, begins tonight Bar4 in Park Slope. Featured performers will play from 8 to 10 p.m., followed by an open mic, which will run from 10 p.m. until last call. Anyone wishing to perform at this always-packed open mic should be at Bar4 for the drawing and sign up, which begins promptly at 6:30 p.m. For the complete schedule of performers for all six nights of the festival, (from May 17th to the 22nd), visit the Local Correspondent website.
NYCers into real new music,
What in 2009-10 was called "Best of NYC Fest" is now "The Deli’s NYC B.E.A.F." – as in Best of Emerging Artists Fest. Isn’t that a perfect acronym for a Deli festival?
The use of the word "Best" is not entirely arbitrary in this case. Most of the artists playing the fest were included in our latest Year End Best of NYC List, compiled polling la crème de la crème of the NYC music industry, including many local venue promoters, bloggers, music journalists and radio DJs.
Hitting Brooklyn for the third year running, this can only be described as the most underground and cross-genre showcase of NYC’s new talent. To make things even more exciting, The Deli’s NYC B.E.A.F. 2011 will be promoted starting next week through the Spring 2011 issue of The Deli, which will be exclusively dedicated to the 106 artists in the Best of NYC 2010 list.
Full schedule with links can be found here!
The Deli’s B.E.A.F. is sponsored by BMI in collaboration with PreSonus and The Musebox
The Deli’s Staff
Roll Call Records will be rereleasing the debut album from Scattered Trees, Sympathy, on August 8th. The band just released a new remix of their track "Four Days Straight" reworked by The Album Leaf. The band will be heading out on a national tour from now to early June. Why don’t you also go like them on Facebook and be a part of their 6,300 fans.
