NYC

Weekly dose of NYC evil: Pop 1280 plays 285 Kent on 06.16

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In the early 2000s, ‘Indie’ was branded as the new ‘Alternative,’ and once innovative genres became imitated until they sounded tiresome. With the rise of chillwave and folk in recent years, some critics complain that a lot of the ‘indie’ bands around today are too soft. The visceral sound of the godfathers of independent music, they say, has gone out of style. While NYC’s Pop 1280 may take that raw sound, which borders on metal, to another level, their music revels in an industrial, ‘pigfuck’ of chaos, evoking earlier NY noise and no wave outfits. With songs more concerned about murder than love, they provide a cathartic release from the cliched indie aesthetic, a sound that feels invigorating in its recklessness.

The band released the album ‘The Horror’ under Sacred Bones last year, and will be performing at 285 Kent this Sunday June 16 – the perfect day for a satanic celebration of the beginning of another disgustingly hot NYC summer (also known as… ‘The Horror’). – Jack McGovern

Portland

Interview with Muscle and Marrow + Special Acoustic Performance for The Deli Portland

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Portland duo Muscle and Marrow were gracious enough to meet up with The Deli Portland to talk a bit about their past, influences, and to play a chill inducing acoustic take of "Golden Sun," a new track off of a forthcoming album still in the works. And where else to play pretty, gloom tinged music than an ancient, sun-splashed graveyard? Muscle and Marrow play Backspace Thursday, June 13th. Read the full interview here.

Thank you to Muscle and Marrow and videographer Nick Gattman!

Portland

Marisa Anderson Record Release at Mississippi Studios 6.16

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Marisa Anderson is not a psychic consultant and medium from Scarsdale, New York. Stupid google. She is a musician who dropped out of college at 19, set to walk across the country and didn’t stop wandering for 15 years. She is kind of like what I’d imagine listening to if I were on a long, sultry walk on my way to bear my sticky palms to a mystical voodoo clairvoyant somewhere deep in the reeds. Anderson is the sound of somewhere woozy and southern, where the air is fat and steamy and where real, lonesome, booze-kissed music drips out of the pores of the natives like some bittersweet birthright. She’s a born picker – a soloist who is staggeringly at one with the guitar and lap steel. Even if live solo guitar shows aren’t your thing, I assure you that this is your chance to hear those forever longed for, never quite found, Delta-blues of yore in person. We’re lucky to have her home, in our blanched northwestern atmosphere on the bloated edge of summer, this coming Sunday the 16th for her record release show at Mississippi Studios with Dragging An Ox Through Water. Go feel it. – Morgan Talkington

Austin

Lonely Child Single Release, “Dead Life” 5/28/13, Local Show TBA

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Lonely Child‘s Bryan Ray churns out another collage of musical wonder with his most recent release, "Dead Life". The song reaches into dark dimensions of emotion both lyrically and instrumentally. Cacophonous middle measure illustrate a "dead life" with fleeting meaning as drums, piano, vocals, and more compete to be heard, to be felt. Despite the confusion, I find myself clinging to the piano as it laces around the phrase "everything’s alright", which resounds through the song as the anthem of a lying subconscious. Listen to Lonely Child’s "Dead Life" today and feel the song for yourself! —Written by Katy Glass

San Francisco

Solwave Releases New Track – I Won’t Wait

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San Francisco based garage soul band, Solwave has released a new single entitled, I Won’t Wait.  This new invigorrating single was produced by Gordon Raphael (The Strokes) and mastered by Richard Dodd (Kings Of Leon), and highlights the high energy soulful style of this rock and roll outfit. Solwave is a veteran band with over 100 songs under their belt, but the music doesn’t stop coming! So you shouldn’t stop listening!

L.A.

Cherry Glazerr: Live at Jubilee Fest

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Cherry Glazerr is an apropos title for these teenagers making spaced out sugary pop music and having more fun than you at sixteen. They played to a small crowd of fans and won over new admirers early in the day on the main Sunset stage. The brief set was filled mostly by super short tracks of sweet melodies and wry lyrics describing youthful innocence by singer Sophia Creevy. – Richard Kim

NYC

Celestial Shore announces debut album “10x” + plays Mercury on 06.18

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As often highlighted in this blog, Celestial Shore is one of the most interesting and unique bands to emerge from Brooklyn in this decade. Their ingenious blending and juxtaposing of gorgeous harmonies, often dissonant electronics, and math and noise rock elements shows a musical imagination that’s rare to sumble upon. The band has finally announced their debut album "10x," scheduled for release in early September – check out the 2nd preview single ‘Stars Under Stars’ below – first single ‘Valerie’ here. Don’t miss their upcoming show at the Mercury Lounge on 06.18.

We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!

NYC

Wyldlife releases “The Time Has Come To Rock & Roll” + tours

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With tracks like ‘Sonofabitch’ and ‘Cowboys and Slutz,’ Wyldlife‘s not known for mincing words. They play exactly what they mean… and they play it loud. The power punk quartet has been mixing hard lifestyles with sweet ass melodies for a little while, but their new material has gotten the formula firmly in position.

And new single ‘The Right!’ off just released record ‘The Time Has Come to Rock & Roll’ characterizes their straight-ahead guitar onslaught with the righteous rage and an amazing willingness to party (plus the vinyl looks reeeaaaally good!). Buy it today and check out the new jam below. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

Philadelphia

New Video: “Untitled” (Out Of Town Films) – Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler

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Check out the lovely new video from Out Of Town Films of Mary Lattimore and Jeff Zeigler performing “Untitled”! Below are a few words about the session from the production crew.

This session with Mary Lattimore had been months in the making. We first visited her home last summer to film Quilt in her backyard then we visited a few months later to shoot with her former roommate Daniel Bachman. All the while, we kept talking about linking up for a session with her and her harp. 

Fast forward to several months later and a night out at the El Bar in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia. We ran into Mary and made a pact to finally get together for a session. A few emails later and the recruitment of her friend, Jeff Zeigler, we found ourselves back at her home. This time we were there for her and her "Untitled" performance. Enjoy.