Cleverly drawing in both new and longstanding fans, Diane Cluck is in full force with her project, “Song of the Week.” For six months she’ll be writing, recording, and distributing a new song each week, bringing a plethora of new music to her catalog and keeping things fresh for listeners and music enthusiasts. Her original folkloric tunes have been featured on BreakThru Radio and her haunting, smooth lyrics keep loyal listeners excited about her running project since it’s inception in March. -CM

Bryan Scary is the most fun you can have without a guitar. The man bangs the piano like a runaway train, utilizing the kind of deft skill usually associated with Elton John concerts and West Village piano bars. Scary packs the soul of Mark Ronson together with the vocal reach of Freddie Mercury… if the two of them decided to write a musical together about umbrellas and gamblers.

His debut record, ‘The Shredding Tears,’ was a breath of fresh air back in 2006, and since then, Scary and his glam-fabulous band have done everything they can to live up to their electro-goth-burlesque persona: From touring the country to readying their latest release.

With Scary’s latest ‘Daffy’s Elixir’ (stream it here) due April 24th on the forward-looking Brooklyn indie label Paper Garden records, it’ll be exciting to see how his mission is extended to include a "Western set during the Industrial Revolution, with an assorted cast of bandits, con men, hucksters, phonies, and all-around bad fellas." His words… not mine.

See the mad man himself when he plays Brooklyn Bowl to celebrate his album’s release, on April 24th. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

Brooklyn electro duo Jonka is back with a brand new single and music video called, "Every Other Day". From their forthcoming album, "Pinks and Blues". A lo-fi beat slowly evolves into a soaring rhythmic landscape, while TV on the Radio-esque "oohs" introduce the dreamy melody.Filmed around Manhattan, the video is a montage of New York City street art and the living, breathing city itself. – (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. 

Spirit Family Reunion (#26 in our latest Best of NYC Emerging Artists Year End Poll) is one of those bands seen playing in the subway, in the back of noisy bars, or on busy street corners, going unnoticed to bright lights and mobs of listless pedestrians with their earbuds at full blast. Or at least that’s what their cracked and weathered sound would make you believe. Their songs are drenched in soul and the twang of the banjo, taking the Brooklyn band far beyond the ordinary bluegrass rock group. Traveling as far south as they do north, Sprit Family Reunion are a gospel-infused reminder of everything that makes roots music great. The band ill make their Newport Folk Festival debut this summer but you can catch them in their hometown on May 12 at Mercury Lounge, playing songs from their forthcoming debut album, which they’re mixing as we speak. – Devon Antonetti