Check out Blues Control‘s hallucinogenic new music video for the track "Opium Den/Fade to Blue" from their latest album Valley Tangent (Drag City)! It was directed by video-artist Kathy Rose, and premiered earlier today via ARTINFO. The duo will be hitting the road soon for an extensive tour of the U.S. Unfortunately, there is no Philly date scheduled in their calendar yet so you’ll just have to puff down and zone out to this art piece.
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International House Philly’s Spring Arts Preview w/A Sunny Day in Glasgow at Ibrahim Theater Jan. 17
With A Sunny Day in Glasgow’s mastermind Ben Daniels living halfway around the world in Sydney, Australia, their live performances have come few and far between as of late. That is why you should definitely take advantage of their free show tonight at the Ibrahim Theater where they’ll be providing a live soundtrack to science film clips and fragments from Roman Vishniac as part of International House Philadelphia’s Spring Arts Preview. The band will then head back into the studio with Uniform Recording’s Jeff Zeigler to finish up mixing their new album, which hopefully means their drought of shows will be coming to an end soon. Ibrahim Theater – International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut St., 7pm, Free (w/RSVP), All Ages – Q.D. Tran
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NYC Artists on the rise: Writer lands residency at Pianos – last show on 01.29
Brooklyn based Californian brothers, Andy and Jayme Ralph work together to create a wall of sound which washes over your entire body when you listen to them – they named it Writer. Their music has definitely a thrashing quality, but not in a lo-fi way – every single element in their tracks sounds fuzzy but in a pleasing way. Among droning guitars and crashing drums they reveal tales of loves lost and hearts broken. Our favorite track "Miss Mermaid" (streaming below) sounds like an intriguing cross between The Walkmen’s slow burning and foggy instrumental intensity and vocal hooks reminiscent of indie pop masters like MGMT. These talented lads landed a residency at Pianos in January, we recommend you go check out on their last show on January 29. See their video for single "Cash for Gold" here. – Julia Kwamya
This song was added to our Deli curated SoundCloud playlist gathering all the best tracks from emerging NYC Indie bands – listen to it here (it’s awesome).
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NYC folksters Whale Belly release album “I Was Once a Bird”
Brooklyn foursome Whale Belly kicked off 2013 right, with the release of their second album, “I Was Once a Bird,” on January 7. Singer Todd Bogin’s vocals that are reminiscent of a younger, rawer Van Morrison, but his band tends to experiment with more intricate arrangements, and an ubiquitous violin that brings to mind the sound of Camper Van Beethoven. Whale Belly’s songs have a definite sense of humor, but the lightheartedness of songs like “Selling Sh*t On Craiglist Just to Pay the Rent” or "Everything Causes Cancer" (streaming) still evokes genuine charm. Devon Antonetti
This song was added to our SoundCloud playlist of the best emerging NYC folk artists – listen to it here.
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Lantern Ready to Set Things Ablaze at JB’s Jan. 17
Lantern, a blast of snarling rock heaven, are headlining tonight at Johnny Brenda’s, along with irately loud Dong Johnson and fierce female pop-punkers Amanda X. Even without their 2012 nod from VICE, their upwards trajectory was cemented by the strength of last year’s Dream Mine, which captivated with its paleo-punk rawness. “Out of Our Heads” blends vintage, Stooges-era thrashing with Zachary Fairbrother’s insouciant vocals, and the ambient noise tracks that stud the album feel more like artistic nods to some of their more Krautrock-y reference points (“Untitled” could be a dirtied-up Can demo) than distracting filler. All in all, a set from Lantern promises enough wattage to power through a citywide blackout. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 Frankford Ave., 9pm, $10, 21+ – Alyssa Greenberg
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I Fight Dragons “cRaZie$”
I Fight Dragons have released a video for their song "cRaZie$" which appeared on their 2011 album Kaboom!. You can get the album for free here. The video is a classic and it finds the band on a vacation at a cabin in the woods, but when they discover an old gaming system the trouble begins.
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Review – “Gods Drug EP” by The Vliets
Though they bow to Captain Beefheart (a.k.a. Don Van Vliet), The Vliets have graduated from their guru and are now generating their own brand of post-modernistic psych rock. Check out "God’s Drug EP", a 4-track master class in cool groove construction. Propelled by keys + guitar + Ty Bohrnstedt’s understated, 60-ish vox, this release’s confident, slow-gro compositions will lay claim to a spot on your heavy rotation list.
There’s a reason these guys came in 1st in the 2012 Best of Austin poll – Check it out.
–Scott Osborn
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Q&A with the deli’s Artist of the Month: Bryan Laurier & the Lost Acres
Out of the woods, past a street that inspired the band’s name, in a barn was where Bryan Laurier & the Lost Acres recorded their first, Kickstarter funded, full length "Bought & Sold." An old barn in the Maine countryside is quite the fitting landscape for the band’s folk, blues, and rock influences with a group of at least 7 (sometimes 8) talented musicians.
The Deli: How did the band start? We all met in college… Colin had been active with his punk band Wolfie Burns when we were roommates and I got to know the rest of his band (Brendan, Spencer, and Ryan) going to bars and hanging out. I’d been writing with Jeremy here and there, but mainly sharing demos while we were developing as writers. Eventually, at the end of college, I’d written a bunch of demos and shared them sporadically with a few of the guys. Brendan mentioned he’d like to play on the songs and I ended up using their entire band since they had all seemed interested and had previous playing chemistry from Wolfie Burns. Jeremy was up for it and joined us up in Maine. Jonathan Mess, who plays harmonica on the record, was my old high school art teacher and I asked him drop in while we tracked a bit at the barn. [Click here to read the rest of the interview with Bryan Laurier]
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New Music Video: “Tonight” – Univox
The mighty Univox is back with a new music video for the track "Tonight" off their 2011 7-inch single. They’ll also be headlining tomorrow night’s showcase at PhilaMOCA where you can expect to hear some new tunes from their upcoming album titled The Altec.
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Ticket Giveaway: Thievery Corporation 1/18 @ 9:30 Club
DC Deli is happy to be collabing with the 9:30 Club again in making sure you get to see some of DC’s best locals on one of the coolest stages in the city. And as you know, Thievery Corporation is a always a hot ticket, with mulitple nights selling out on a regular basis whenever their tours bring them back through home.
If you haven’t already gotten your tickets here to the electronic madness, now’s your chance to score a spot on the list for the Friday 1/18 show! All you have to do is email us and tell us what your favorite Thievery Corporation song is and why by 3 PM on 1/17. Please include your first and last name for guest list requirements. The winner will be emailed back.
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Best of NYC Poll – JURORS’ VOTE: Foxygen, Spirit Family Reunion, DIIV + more
This year 28 NYC "scene experts" helped us with our Best of NYC Poll 2012 for Emerging Artists by choosing their 3 favorite up and coming NYC acts. These jurors are comprised of local venue agents and other industry people who work with many local bands throughout the year (full list coming soon). Their votes this year produced a list of 68 artists, which means that – as always – most jurors voted for different bands. But some bands appeared more thans once in the "ballots": below we compiled a list of the artists who accumulated more points through the jurors vote only. Kudos to Foxygen (already on the cover of our 2012 CMJ issue) for getting the top spot.
The Best of NYC 2012 Readers and Fans’ Poll – including all the nominees – will start in a few days – stay tuned (since we have one of these polls happening in each scene we cover, we need to schedule them carefully to avoid to overload our server – thanks for your patience!).
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Andy Bopp: Dixie Fried
(by Natan Press) Baltimore’s Andy Bopp is one of the city’s true treasures; a pop-song magician on par with Matthew Sweet and Jon Brion, the artistic progeny of Alex Chilton and Paul Westerburg , a high priest of Ray Davies and Paul McCartney. He’s perhaps best known as the one man band Myracle Brah, a project that has so far generated 7 exquisite albums between 1998 and 2007.
Andy’s first band, the energetic Love Nut, caught the ear of Interscope records and released Bastards of Melody, which, along with the likes of Sloan and Fountains of Wayne, made post-punk power pop the next big thing (or so we hoped). The majors thought otherwise, no doubt, and Love Nut’s second album, Baltimucho! was almost lost in some basement in Santa Monica until it was finally released by the much smaller Big Deal Records in 1999.
More recently, in 2011, Andy and his new-yet-now-also-defunct band Alto Verde released Paper Clips, or what Weezer would sound like if Rivers Cuomo was obsessed with Alex Chilton instead of Brian Wilson. It’s a shame Alto Verde will not be releasing any new songs in the near future. The same can be said for Myracle Brah. What are Andy Bopp’s fans supposed to do? We got in touch with Andy to find out, click here for more on that…