It may be a windy ten degrees on these New York City streets, but if you’re plugged into Dream Diary, your heart is in the warm sunshine. Their track, “Something Tells Her” belongs among the dream-pop elite the likes of The Clientele, Acid House Kings and Sweden’s Labrador records. The track features an upbeat, head-bobbing melody flourished with shimmering guitar and Jacob Sloan’s Morrisy-esque vocals, the New York Times even acknowledging their “Smiths-like tendencies.” And the story of their formation is a sweet song in itself and could be the trailer of the next great indie romance; Jacob Sloan and Madison Farmer literally bumped into each other on the street in New York, both dropping ipods, both playing The Smiths’s Queen Is Dead… (uhm, should we believe this? ) Be sure to pick up their brand new album, You Are The Beat (Kanine), and to see them live at The Deli’s NYC B.E.A.F. on Thursday May 26 with other great local bands like Invisible Days, Ravens & Chimes, Translations, Dinowalrus, and Prospector. – Katie Bennett

Bands and Artists based in NYC and NJ,

This June The Deli will participate to The L Magazine’s Northside Festival for the first time, and our organizers are looking for artists to book for our show at Spike Hill on Saturday June 18.
 

If your band is based in NYC or NJ and
doesn’t have a show booked at Northside yet
please compile this form HERE to get a chance to play!

Thanks and Good Luck!

The Deli’s Staff

From a quick internet search, we learned today that "Pine Mouth" is a bitter or metallic taste some people develop after ingesting pine nuts. But there isn’t really much bitterness (and no metallic-ness whatsoever) in this NYC based quartet’s music, a sugar-coated folk-pop rich in charming melodies, twangy arrangements, and big melodic openings – you’ll find all this in the embedded single "Animals". The band is brand new and will perform their first show on Tuesday May 17 at Rockwood Music Hall (stage 2). The show will also double as release party for their self titled digital EP.

Clare Burson plays simple, twangy ballads that subtly reinvent Americana, standing clear of sterile country cliches, and instilling in the genre a powerful dose of melancholy. So powerful that the song "Goodbye My Love" (embedded here) may prove to be a dangerous listening experience on a rainy day like this… But, unlike many other pop-obsessed blogs out there, The Deli is – and always will be – proud to celebrate the beauty of sophisticated sad music (our recent Lia Ices cover can testify that once for all). Clare’s melodies are supported by her gentle alto, at times reminiscent of an early Joni Mitchell with a slight lower register. Clare is currently playing a residency at Rockwood Music Hall (see her there on May 25 and 29th.)