Go Folk Yourself and Erin and her Cello premiered this charming music video for "Sober!" Frequent to the NYC music scene, Erin and her Cello – Erin Hall’s brainchild – is a full band offering quirky rootsy pop with jazzy tinges. Hall plays her cello like an upright bass, plucking bass lines while singing quirky ditties about NYC life. They joined forces with Go Folk Yourself, raising the finances to produce this video via Kickstarter.com. Erin and her Cello’s next show will be Saturday, December 17th, 8pm at Rockwood Music Hall. – (as posted in The Deli’s Open Blog – post your band’s entries, videos, and Mp3s here). The Deli’s NYC Open Blog is powered by The Music Building and APS Mastering.
Northportfishington band Harsh Vibes will be invading The Fire tonight so you should swing on by to the Girard Ave. watering hole. But I’d definitely suggest that you bring a set of earplugs because the local five-piece are certainly not afraid to get loud as they create unrepentant fuzzed out shoegaze-y psychedelic noise rock that feels like it was made to seduce your soul into the pits of hell. Their early demos are currently the only tracks available online, but they are quite badass. Harsh Vibes finished their final recordings this past August so expect to see an actual release coming out soon. They’ll be joined this evening by 8-bit groove makers Cheap Dinosaur and Drexel duo Gypsy Death and You. The Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave., 9pm, $7, 21+ – Alexis V.
Allyson Baker, the woman behind Dirty Ghosts, grew up a guitar player, but it turns out her biggest musical feat to date is all about her vocals and rhythm section.
While trying to grow Dirty Ghosts from a duo with no singer into a full group, attempts to unearth a vocalist were fruitless, so Ms. Baker stepped up to singing for the first time. The product–a debut album with passionately heated vocals in a chic tone. When combined with basic beats and sorted touches of electro, Dirty Ghosts make it feel like Mates of State have decided to relocate back to the Bay.
Enlisting the help of co-producer Aesop Rock, the group created a foundation of tribal-like drum bangs, static guitar and swinging funk bass loops. On the first single, “Shout It In,” galactic electronics meld into grooving upbeats and danceable guitar breaks topped by Baker’s talkie lyricism. Her strong, yet vulnerable voice works perfectly with Aesop Rock’s production.
Dirty Ghosts’ debut LP, Metal Moon, is due out February 21st.
Download below the first single “Shout It In” and catch Dirty Ghosts’ on a full California tour in early 2012:
1/19 – Knockout – San Francisco, CA
1/24 – Casanova – San Francisco, CA (DJ SET)
2/23 – Noise Pop Festival – Brick and Mortar – San Francisco, CA
2/24 – Bootleg Theater – Los Angeles
2/25 – Bar Pink – San Diego, CA
2/26 – Detroit Bar – Costa Mesa, CA
This past week Old Town School of Folk announced that they will be releasing a four volume, 127 track collection of archived recordings. The recordings span 50 years and contains recordings from Joan Baez, Jeff Tweedy, Andrew Bird, Doc Watson, Pete Seeger, Lila Downs, Steve Earle, and more. The four volumes are broken down into "Family Music," "New Folk," "Trad Folk," and "World Music."
Here is "Dear Old Greenland" recorded by Andrew Bird on September 15, 2000 which is in the "New Folk" section of the collection.
This project is out today, and you can view the entire track list here.
Over the weekend, An Aesthetic Anaesthetic kicked off a campaign to raise fund for their next album. The band is hoping to raise at lease $1500 to help cover the cost of recording. The four-piece band has an array prizes levels line-up including copies of their the new album, their second, which will be called Names and be released in July.
Our Philly editor QD pointed us towards Wild Vibes‘ music and we soon realized we plugged them already once, last summer, here, with a hilarious blurb (just nod and smile now…) This emerging synth-psych-pop Brooklyn based group belongs to an international collective of artists and musicians called Deerhaus, whose rather vague mission is "to affect peoples’ interaction in the world." Well, I guess their music affected the way QD and I interacted… They released 2 CDs in 2011, the second one in October. They also just premiered this cute but disturbing video of the opener track "Molly", a quirky, super-catchy pop gem that should have been released in the summer, when people normally commit suicide – during the day – in Coney Island’s beaches.
I met up with Alan Hague and Jared Paul of the Providence-based hardcore punk band Prayers for Atheists (PFA) for a Thai dinner on a warm, late-summer evening. The restaurant was about the size of my closet so when we sat at the tiny table we knocked knees at the tiny table and struggled not to distract the seven year-old girl and her family eating at the next table over.
Our hour-long conversation meandered from the history of hardcore punk to political activism to pop music. We started with their recent tour.
As a gift for the Holidays, Los Angeles experimental musician DAMEDAS (also known as Felipe Delgadio) has released a FREE 6-track EP called Imagination’s Limitations Through a Telescope. Unlike his previous release, Flamenco Futuro, which was infused with layers of gypsy-African Ju Ju-zen sounds and alternating Spanish-to English vocals, Imagination’s Limitations Through a Telescope explores the darker side of loop music, in what Delgadio describes as “winter mood.” Through the simple use of synthesizers and drum machines, he creates complex musical space between uncharted experimental sounds that left us feeling like natives in a strange, galactic land of wonder, where stargazing permeates more than just the visual senses. – Tuesday Phillips
Dreamy instrumentalists Corespondents will play tonight at The Sunset Tavern, sharing an opening slot with Shana Cleveland and the Sandcastles, and followed by Colt Kraft. After touring last year, the band returned to the northwest, armed with soft-edged lullaby-like tunes that mix eastern influences with a west coast sensibility. Plucked strings float over bouncy yet understated bass lines; muffled crooning and hazy guitars suggest cowboys’ heady daydreams. The combination culminates in a textured layering of sounds that, despite its ethereal quality, is far from boring, and should warm up tonight’s crowd with the same apparent ease expressed in their songwriting.
There may not be a more distinctive voice in Chicago music history than that of Josh Carterer of The Smoking Popes. This Christmas Josh has released a new solo album filled Christmas songs. When I say solo, I mean he sang all vocals, and played all instruments on the project – including, but not limited to, drums, guitar, keyboard, tambourine, shakers, hand claps, foot stomps and even 2x4s. The album, The Heart of Christmas, was released on November 22nd and Josh has been touring singing his carols since that time.
Here at the Deli’s headquarters (our homes) we are spending hours browsing through and listening to the submissions we received for our year end poll, and thisNYC based singer called Xenia Rubinos stood out as something quite different and interesting. It sound like world music with an indie, electronic edge. Xenia released an album in November, check out the track streaming below.
