Richie Records/Testostertunes just reissued Kurt Vile‘s 2009 EP The Hunchback today, which comes with six bonus live tracks recorded on August 27, 2011 at the Earl in Atlanta with the classic Violators lineup that included The War on Drugs‘ Adam Granduciel. You can take a listen to the live versions of "Freak Train" featuring Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound) and "Hunchback" below. Enjoy!
Nashville
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East Nashville Underground Announces Winter Lineup
Just in time to commemorate the sudden and somewhat painful temperature drop outside, the East Nashville Underground crew have announced their winter lineup. The shows will take place on Friday, February 15th and Saturday, February 16th, so whether you’re taken or single, this is your best chance to dance off your post-Valentine’s Day haze.
Friday Night
Vinyl Thief
All Them Witches
Alanna Royale
Machines Are People Too (headliner)
Magnolia Sons (headliner)
Cult Logic
DJ Rate (from Boom Bap)
Saturday Brunch Day Show
The Static Trees
Jon Byrd
Joshua
Waterfall Wash
KS Rhoads (headliner)
Colorfeels (headliner)
Frances & The Foundation Hanzelle
Saturday night
Golden Spurs
COIN
Tesla Rossa
James Wallace & The Naked Light (headliner)
MOON TAXI (headliner)
The Wans D
J That Guy! (Kory Schalm)
Wristbands for the full weekend are $25 and can be purchased this way. If the anticipation is just too much to bear, you can get started a little early at the High Watt on February 11th for the ENU edition of 8 Off 8th.
Philadelphia
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New Music Video: “Girls Want Rock” – Free Energy
Free Energy‘s new self-released album Love Sign is out today! You can also check out their latest pimpilicious, long-for-summertime music video for the track "Girls Want Rock," which just premiered via Entertainment Weekly.
Philadelphia
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New Nightlands Album Available for Streaming!
Check out Oak Island, the new album from multi-instrumentalist Dave Hartley, a.k.a. Nightlands, below! It officially comes out next week January 22 via Secretly Canadian. Special thanks to WNYC’s Soundcheck for sharing.
Austin
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Review – “Ἁγία Σοφία” by Creationists
Nope, we don’t know how to pronounce the title of the latest release from Creationists either. But like the artist formally known as Prince, it doesn’t matter – The music makes the pronunciation moot.
Rough and tumble rock-punk, cleanly-produced, rumbling with thick bass, glistening with verbed guitars and topped with excellently-bellowed vox. And (though it might seem strange in this context, it works brilliantly) the occasional trumpet ("Saint Stephen", "Black Hands"). Extra marks for the belligerently brilliant "Mucho Macho", though "End of the Line", "Tunnel Rat", and "Southern Cross" get stars too.
Harder rock, this, veering into the psyche side of the road at times, but all good and a worthy addition to the "produced in Austin" sticker. Mark one up for Creationists – This unpronounceable LP is an excellent way to start 2013.
— Scott Osborn
Philadelphia
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Market East Opening for The Amazing at MilkBoy Philly Jan. 15
The Market East camp has been awfully quiet lately after bursting onto the Philly music scene early last year with their innocent retro sounds, three-part harmonies and self-titled debut EP. I often interpret that silence by bands (that aren’t about to breakup) to be time taken in order to work on new material, and possibly another recording, which seems to be the case for the acoustic trio. Tonight they will be breaking their silence in the New Year opening for Sweden’s The Amazing, who somewhat recently visited Philly on tour with fellow imports Tame Impala at Union Transfer. If you were shutout of that sold out show, then this evening is your opportunity to see if the Swedes can actually live up to their band name. MilkBoy Philly, 1100 Chestnut St., 9pm, $10, 21+ (Photo by Kyle Costill) – H.M. Kauffman
Chicago
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Panda Riot “Black Pyramids”
Panda Riot are returning next month with their second full-length album, North Automatic Music, via Saint Marie Records (US) and Vinyl Junkie (Japan). The album will be released on Feb. 19th and is available for preview now. This is the bands second release on Saint Marie and the follow-up to last years 7" single "Serious Radical Girls".
The albums first single is "Black Pyramids" and is finds the band pushing their take on dreampop forward. The is fronted by Rebecca Scott on vocals and Brian Cook on guitar, and together with Justin Cheng and Jose Rodriguez they have create a sound that lush, rhythmic, and drenched layers of fuzzed out guitar and angelic vocals.
Nashville
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Watch Western Medication’s Video for “Big City”
Born from the mind of Justin Landis and formed in December of 2011, Western Medication have premiered their video for "Big City" over at Stereogum. In addition to Landis, the band features Alycia Wahn (formerly of Useless Eaters) and Bad Cop’s Adam Moult and Kevin Kilpatrick, created as "the remedy against the epidemic of uninspired rock that has been pumped out for years."
If you have a free minute (and eight seconds, to be exact), you can check out Western Medicine’s version of the remedy for uninspired rock music in the clip for "Big City," featuring a bad ass jam session and some computer-enhanced shots of Manhattan.
"Big City" will be featured on The Painted World 7", out January 29th via Jeffrey Drag Records.
NYC
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Deli Best of NYC 2012 – Open Submission Results for FOLK ROCK + AMERICANA
This is the category gathering NYC based bands who play roots music in all its traditional glory. Or at least that’s what we intended it to be – a couple of bands in the list (namely, Sewing Machines and The Balboans) obviously mis-categorized themselves when submitting for this poll…
Total Submissions in this category: 23
Artists Qualified to the Poll’s Next Stage (starting soon):
1. Swear and Shake – 8.16 (out of 10)
2. The Ludlow Thieves – 7.66
3. The Courtesy Tier – 7.5
Honorable Mentions (score above 7):
Sewing Machines, The Balboans, Ten Ton Man, Runaway Dorothy, Zak Smith, Mail the Horse, Alana Amram & the Rough Gems, Kayleigh Goldsworthy, David King + The Confirmed Bachelors, Elijah Ocean, This Old Ghost, Thomas Bryan Eaton.
Jurors: Ben Toledo (Deli Portland), Jacqueline Caruso (Deli LA), QD Tran (Deli Philly)
The Deli’ Staff
NYC
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NYC Year End Poll – FOLK ROCK Submissions: Swear & Shake are #1
For a folk band, Swear and Shake are distinctly uninterested in discussing far off lands and forgotten frontiers. In her lyrics, girl-next-door/singer Kari Spieler would rather bring up her weed habits (‘These White Walls’) or tough choices concerning playing marbles (‘Marbles’ – streaming).You’ll feel like you already know the group after listening through a couple of these charming acoustic tunes. See the band live when they play Irving Plaza on Jan 16. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)
Philadelphia
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Free Download: “Wild Night” – DRGN King
Check out a new electro-pop track called "Wild Night" from DRGN King’s forthcoming debut record Paragraph Nights, which was featured on Spinner.com earlier today and is available for free download HERE! The album will be released on January 22 via Bar None Records. Here is what frontman Dominic Angelella had to say about the band’s latest offering: “This song started off as a weird little electro demo and slowly blossomed into the frenetic, guitar-y thing that it is today. We hope you enjoy.”
NYC
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NYC Year End Poll – FOLK ROCK Submissions: The Ludlow Thieves at #2
For the lower east side’s The Ludlow Thieves, life is a continuing anthem, filled with moments larger than they may seem, only your lens needs shifting. Projecting an exuberance that harkens back to hair metal’s declarations of passion and love, The Ludlow Thieves do it all with mandolins and acoustic energy instead. Songs like ‘Sing Me Back’ (streaming) might very well harken a new national anthem with all their love for their hometown New York and all the circles of friends they’re surrounded by. Check the band out when they play Arlene’s Grocery on Jan 16. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)