Philadelphia

New Track: “Dead End” – Reading Rainbow

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According to Pitchfork, local indie darlings Reading Reading will be releasing a 7" split with Australian duo Super Wild Horses in early September via HoZac Records as part of their Hookup Klub singles series. You can stream their new track "Dead End" below as well as check out the dates for their upcoming tour with Eternal Summers. If you’d like to hear them live for FREE this Saturday signup HERE, Reading Rainbow will be performing at the Vice/Vitamin Water Uncapped Live showcase at Sigma Sound Studios w/Cat Vet and The Homophones. Enjoy!

Reading Rainbow Tour:
9/07 Washington, DC – The Red Palace*
9/08 Raleigh, NC – The Hive at Busy Bee Cafe (Hopscotch Music Fest)
9/09 Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn*
9/10 Birmingham, AL – The Bottletree*
9/12 Charlottesville, VA – Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar*
9/13 Harrisonburg, VA – The Artful Dodger*
9/14 New Haven, CT – BAR*
9/15 Northampton, MA – Iron Horse Music Hall*
9/16 Rochester, NY – Bug Jar*
9/17 Cambridge, MA – TT The Bear’s Place*
9/19 Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands Gallery*
9/20 New York, NY – Mercury Lounge*
9/25 Philadelphia, PA – The Ukie Club
*w/Eternal Summers

Reading Rainbow – Dead End by RRPhilly

NYC

Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor + Twin Shadow = CANT

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CANT is a new super-collaboration between Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and Twin Shadow – two bands that graced the cover of The Deli Magazine, 7 years apart (the Bears were on our very first issue’s cover in 2004, while Twin Shadow landed on our Spring 2011 issue’s glossy front page). CANT is about to release the debut album "Dreams Come True"on Taylor’s Terrible Records and Warp on September 13. You can listen to a couple of preview tracks from the record here.

NYC

Fang Island in the studio + touring in September

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Perpetually high fiving NYC guitar heroes Fang Island – featured on the cover of last year’s Deli’s first SXSW issue – are currently in the studio recording the followup to last year’s self-titled debut. Small hints of the recording process have been popping up on the band’s Twitter account. The band will take a short break from recording to hit the road in September for a series of East Coast shows, some of which will be with The Joy Formidable. Their next NYC show will be at Glasslands on October 5.

Philadelphia

Dry Feet Open for Jeff the Brotherhood at Bookspace Aug. 24

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It’s been fun to watch surf-punks Dry Feet rise from cramped DIY basements in Philly to opening for national touring bands at Johnny Brenda’s. Tonight they’ll be returning to the latest ultra-cool DIY space in town, Bookspace, to open for Jeff the Brotherhood with locals and our Featured Artist(s) Poll nominees The Bad Doctors joining them on the bill as well. This should be a rad, packed show with people probably looking for space in the rafters so you better not miss out. Now, what I’m wondering is since Dry Feet’s guitarist Perry Shall is considered Jeff the Brotherhood’s official roadie, will he have to carry their equipment in tonight? Ha…I hope not. He’s got to save that energy for tearing shit up this evening. Dry Feet will also be opening an early show for Ted Leo & The Pharmacists next month on Saturday, September 24 at Johnny Brenda’s (tickets are available HERE). Bookspace, 1113 Frankford Ave., 8pm, $10, All Ages – Alexis V.

Philadelphia

Recap: Slutever, Bedroom Problems & The Sniffles at JB’s

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Last Friday’s sub-par weather failed to put a damper on Slutever’s highly anticipated homecoming. Reeling from the tail end of their “Slutever Do America Tour,” Rachel Gagliardi and Nicole Snyder’s return was well worth the wait. The first decibels of the evening to be heard were by resident pop-punks The Sniffles. Nostalgic but sincere, The Sniffle’s self-defined “boredom core” hit the crowd with a pensive energy, generated by riffs and purposely noisy drums. Cuts off their latest I Used to Be Cool Now I’m Cool EP, like “Waste of Time” and “Get Down” garnished easy applause from show-goers. With high voltage shredding and clever quips The Sniffles’ set was a reminder of basement shows, summer, and the energy of post-teenaged bliss.

Bedroom Problems, a new-ish local outfit, kicked off their set with “At Least Counting is Easy,” a reserved but angsty anthem about the downsides of singledom. The quasi punk-esque outro brings to mind a hybrid of Kleenex and Yellow Fever. Lead vocalist Maria Sciarrino’s lyrics are emotively in-tune with the fundamental sentiments of mumblecore features while her band’s instrumentation falls within the forever present parentheses of moody lo-fi. Onstage, Sciarrino’s diction feels confessional, sincere. Sharing details about her record collection, new dog, new job, and dreams, Sciarrino and her bandmates’ onstage presence is as genuine as their songs. Perhaps Bedroom Problems is a hopeful foreshadowing of an uprising of more femme-fronted lo-fi in the City of Brotherly Love.

Slutever, like always, took the stage with ownership. With Gagliardi sporting a Harley-Davidson tee and Snyder in cutoffs, the twosome shook show-goers to life with the start of “Smells Like Milk.” Coupled with Snyder’s crashing cymbals and pulse like percussion, Gagliardi’s bratty vocals couldn’t have been more perfect. Taking a break to alert their fans that she puked right before their set, Gagliardi confessed to be “really nervous.” Whether a serious confession or in jest, Gagliardi’s fiery presence alongside Snyder’s tight precision, proved the benefits of seven weeks on the road. Slutever’s noise punk continues to improve, rendering their fuzzed-out charm undeniably infectious. “I Can Dream the Rest Away,” felt patriotic, an anthem to the cynically heartbroken or the frustrated and annoyed. The wave of riffs and unrelenting crash of drums fit the mood of the song’s lyrical genius, voiced by Gagliardi. After tracks like “Teen Mom” and the bittersweet chants of “So Prone,” Slutever‘s set ended with “Sun Hot” and applause, confirming that Philly’s shit-fi sweethearts continue to warm the hearts of their fans not only abroad, but most importantly here at home.

Philadelphia

PW’s Concerts in The Piazza (Not The Park) Aug. 24

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With all the torrential rain lately in Philly and now an earthquake on top of all the other natural disasters going on as well as stuff like hundreds of birds dropping dead all at once out of the sky, you’d think talks about the end of the world in 2012 aren’t that silly anymore. I know. You didn’t think the earthquake was really that bad. I didn’t either. But it still gives us another reason to throw down a little harder tonight at Philadelphia Weekly’s Concerts in The Piazza (which is also doubling as “The Philly F/M Fest Preview Night”). And it’s also a good opening line for all the single peeps and those in “open relationships.” Well, the flamboyant characters in Nicos Gun are definitely not afraid to bring some sexual energy to the dance party. You’ll also have the hook-ladened, rollicking Brit-pop/psych rock of Cheers Elephant to sing away any aftershock blues. And though Hezekiah Jones’ latest album Have You Seen Our New Fort? is certainly more upbeat than his past works. Raph Cutrufello’s rich, earnest vocals can provide plenty of folk music for the end of the world to lament with someone that you find attractive. Will any of these bands throw together earth-shaking covers in honor of yesterday’s momentous occasion? You’ll just have to grab a drink and come hear for yourself. It’s FREE, and the weather is predicted to be fine so carpe diem, folks! The Piazza at Schmidts, 2nd St. and Germantown Ave., 6pm – 9pm, FREE, All Ages – H.M. Kauffman
 
San Francisco

Live Preview: Ty Segall

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Ty Segall, San Francisco’s modern day Kurt Cobain (primarily in a his signature flannel fashion sense), is getting around town. If you missed his garage rock set at Outside Lands and you can’t bare to wait ‘til his gig on Aug. 27 at Hemlock Tavern or you’re busy during his Sept. 12 show at The New Parish, then fear not because you can certainly get your fix at his just announced show tomorrow, Aug. 26, at The Knockout with the always-amazing Shannon and the Clams. –Justine Fields


 

NYC

Sweet Treats: Send Lightfoot to Europe

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Attention all Washington, D.C. earthquake survivors! I know you’re all still in post traumatic stress disorder induced drunken stupors / hangovers at this point, but listen up! There is a remedy. You know as well as I do that the best possible cure for this madness is tables and tables full of delicious baked goods! And you, D.C., are in luck, rumor has it that a bake sale is brewing!

Oh, and, while you use this bake sale induced sugar high to cope with your unshakable (get it? earthquake? shakable? ahhh, forget it) fear of aftershocks, you can also feel awesome for helping send D.C. natives, the 1960s-esque indie poppers, Lightfoot on their inaugural European Tour.

The Bake Sale a la Fundraiser will be taking place this Thursday, August 25 at The Dunes in Columbia Heights from 8 – 11pm. There will be DJ’s, dance moves, cocktails, and the undoubtably sensual consumption of cupcakes for all to enjoy.

Come get down, get dirty, get your sugar-coma groove on, and support local music!

The Dunes is located at:

1402 Meridian Place NW
(Meridian Place entrance)
Washington, DC 20010

–Jarrett

NYC

Experimental NYC: Jonathan Wood Vincent

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Jonathan Wood Vincent lives in a world where you can do nothing but eat watermelon without threat of retaliation.  A world where businessmen hold meetings in glockenspiels. Consonance and dissonance collapse into a single point of miraculous possibility. Jonathan resides in an architectural landmark on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that maintains every idiosyncrasy, ideal, paperweight championed by its former occupants, who once sang opera for the Met.  This abode is aka Papacookie.  Want to see some Butoh?  Eat durian at a vegetarian potluck?  Sit on a 70 year old recliner and listen to the most radical sounds expounded in our current climate of experimental sound?  Go there.
Then there’s Jonathan at the piano, molting.  Spinning songs like faberge eggs.  Melodies are dissected, rerouted, segue paradoxically.  Listen to his songs and your eyes grow wide like new ears trying to grow where your eyes are.  His octaves translate a primal, guttural imperative to discover new terrain.  Here’s necessity.  Here’s the sensation of traveling by night. Technically, Jonathan plays the chords you least expect him to.  The top and bottom keys are redeemed.  Listening to him is deeply satisfying in a way that’s rare outside of honest reflection or marveling at Gothic Churches. Plus there’s an esteemed humor to it all.  See: his songs about CNN, Baltimore.  The mundane becomes extremely funny, there’s nothing ironic or defeatist about it. Listen carefully to what an artist who actively surprises themselves as well as the audience does to brainwaves, dream life, tomorrows’ commute… – Valerie Kuehne


L.A.

Mini Mogul Presents The Show, Featuring Dylan Trees

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Heading out to Sunset Junction this weekend? Even if the the fate of the festival is still in question (hopefully not!), we’re still commencing the weekend festivities with "The Show", a music and arts show located right in the heart of Los Feliz. Acts include the classic psych-folk sounds of Dylan Trees, the retro space musings of Justin Webb, and a smattering of heartwarming country courtesy of Coyote. It all starts at 7:00 pm this Thursday, August 25th at Best Fish Taco in Ensenada.