Bay Area based experimental avant rock band, Makeunder has released a new music video for their single, "To the Ladder". This highly imaginitive and unique musical outfit is made up of six core members who create artistically off kilter music that exudes tonal influences from experimental composer Bela Bartok and new wave geniuses The Talking Heads. Because of Makeunder’s unique musical influences they create music that stands on its own as pure avant art music.
San Francisco
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Congratulations to The Visibles For Winning The Deli Magazine SF’s Artist of the Month Poll
Congratulations to the San Francisco based avant folk psych rock band, The Visibles for winning The Deli Magazine San Francisco‘s Artist of the Month Poll. This band’s loyal followers have voted them the cream of the crop this month, and with good reason! This band’s self titled full length album is a mellow and groovy 60’s throwback album that possesses musical soundscapes similar to The Beatles and 60’s Brit Pop.
We’re happy to highlight such a great band! Congratulations again from The Deli Magazine San Francisco.
Austin
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Misay Day’s 91.7 Local Live In-Studio Video “Wetlands”, Local Show TBA
Misay Day is a straight-up folk band. In their video for 91.7’s Local Live in-Studio, they perform "Wetlands" and of the three instruments they play, one is indeed a saw. And you know what? It works! It really works. In some instances folk music can seem too traditional, almost stagnant, but Misay Day’s alternative folk music is alive and kicking.
The first time I heard "Imaginary Blues" and Kate Robberson came in, my mind went right to Regina Spektor’s "Consequence of Sounds". The songs radiate with Robberson and Spektor’s classic voices and cute inflections. This uncanny likeness was reaffirmed when I watched "Wetlands" where the vocals are rich and decadent and seconds later light.
The song as a whole acts to teleport your mind to a calmer place. I felt undertones of ambient influences in the calm atmosphere it held. Check out "Wetlands" and "Imaginary Blues" today and feel the cool vibes of alternative folk. — Written by Katy Glass
Philadelphia
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The Deli Philly’s June Album of the Month: Make Your Mind – Arrah and the Ferns
Arrah and the Ferns may have sweetness and light in abundance, but the undercurrent of frank lust in their new album is both new and old hat for these folk rockers. Since their last offering, they’ve adopted growing pains as a lyrical source, to varying effects. While the album relies heavily on much of the same wistfully-ornamented indie delicacy, there’s simultaneously an explicit element, and a successful one at that. Romance isn’t dead on Make Your Mind, it’s just got a mouth on it.
The woozy, low guitars at the beginning of album are one of many instrumental stunners, which we’ve long known to be a touchstone for the Ferns. There is some spectacular guitar and drum work on the album, but for most part, the music and the vocals go head to head in friendly tandem – never trying to outdo one another.
Arrah Fisher’s honeyed vocals push through the knot of winding guitars on the second track, “Go Back,” inciting her band to back her up when she half-purrs, half-belts “I see the way your body moves me – but you don’t have to touch me.”
“Triangle” is a list of questions, an effecting device used by Fisher to protest the coming of a different stage of adulthood – one in which commitment is inevitable and freedom to do as she wants a relic of immaturity. “I wanna meet the man on the other side,” she murmurs, seeing her free-spirited inclinations in danger, and then, with a bravado outburst, demands to know “Why do I have to grow up and be a married schmuck – when all I want to do is fuck…fuck…fuck…fuck…fuck!” The unbridled sexuality is startling, but when you think about it, the turbulence is a perfect underlining for sweet-sounding music about growing up and moving on.
The band then counters that song’s thinly-veiled hedonism with the role-reversing “Hang Up,” whose slow-dance 50s rock balladry finds Fisher imploring her lover to throw himself wholeheartedly into a new life. “This is where I hang up, start to pack my stuff up. I will come to you this time…I don’t want to have you on the side. I just want to have a normal time, have a normal life.” Is she embroiled in an affair? Is she coaxing him out of another relationship? Maybe, but it would seem heartless to resist her sincerity.
Make Your Mind has a welcomed, bouncing energy that picks the album up from its wispy, low-tempo tone halfway through. There’s a uniformity of pace, with most songs choosing a leisurely amble over an all-out rush, but the variance of tone and instrumentation saves the album from tedium, and adds up to an invigorating (and possibly final) effort from Arrah and the Ferns. – Alyssa Greenberg
Philadelphia
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Free Philly Beer Week Beer Garden Concert Series at Headhouse Square & More
It’s Philly Beer Week, and we wanted to give you a heads up about the Beer Garden concert series being presented by TJ Kong Presents. Each weekday this week from 5 – 8pm at Headhouse Square, there will be free performances by local area acts to go along with featured craft beers, food trucks and games. Scheduled to perform in the makeshift beer garden will be Cold Fronts (Monday), Swift Technique (Tuesday), Ali Wadsworth (Wednesday), New Sweden (Thursday) and The Lawsuits (Friday). You’ll also get two opportunities to catch TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb performing on Thursday night at the Belgian Cafe for an intimate, sweaty evening and on Saturday for a big blowout on the deck at City Tap House with The Fleeting Ends, Thee, Idea Men, and Ang & the Damn Band, which are also free with plenty of beer, of course.
Philadelphia
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New Honey Radar EP Available for Streaming & Being Released via Treetop Sorbet
Lo-fi psych pop-rock act and Indiana transplants Honey Radar recently shared their new 6-song EP Mary Plum Musket, which you can stream below. The cassette will be available via local indie label Treetop Sorbet.
Philadelphia
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New Saudi Money Album Available for Streaming & Out Today
Controversial Philly rapper Saudi Money (formerly Asaad) just self-released his new album #COLDBLUE, which also features an appearance by fledgling local emcee Ffry Ferelll. You can stream the LP in its entirety below.
NYC
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The Deli’s NYC B.E.A.F. 2013 is ON!
Featuring 36 emerging NYC artists includiung Spirit Family Reunion (currently on the cover of our Best of NYC print issue), The Stationary Set, Mree, Apollo Run, Manicanparty, Modern Rivals, Cultfever, Beast Patrol and Wilsen, The Deli NYC’s Best of Emering Artists Fest is set to begin on Wednesday June 5 and end on Saturday 06.08 – full schedule here.
We won’t claim we have all the best emerging local artists booked for this fest, but definitely a fair amount of them.
Hope to see you!
The Deli’s Staff
NYC
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From The Deli NYC’s online music submissions: Bluffing
Bluffing is exactly the right way to deliver solid indie rock anthems. Fast, dirty, and as big as possible. This Brooklyn band is a whirlwind of stormy distortion and muddled vocals (Olivia Drusin and guitarist/singer J. Boxer) coming at you from all directions at once. Sorta like NY’s recent locust storm… but much, much prettier. I’m looking forward to more of these tasty little nuggets when the band releases more singles soon from upcoming EP "sugar coated pills of wisdom." – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)
This band submitted their music for review here
NYC
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MS MR release full length + play Governors Ball on 06.08
Many of the tracks on ‘Secondhand Rapture,’ the debut album by MS MR, have already trickled out in a series of hotly-anticipated singles, music videos and on the overplayed trailer for season 3 of HBO’s Games of Thrones (that song is titled “Bones”). So getting twelve big ones in long-player format feels almost like a greatest hits package. The album’s opener, “Hurricane,” is still MS MR’s strongest number. Its forceful soul vocal laments the moment when dreamers have to become, um, well, working stiffs and go make a real living – hopefully not too soon! “Dark Doo Wop” (Chet Faker remix streaming below) is one of Secondhand’s best surprises. A finger-poppin’ ballad here dares to reinvent the girl-group genre by using a dramatic bolero beat to build up the apocalyptically romantic chorus: “This world is gonna burn.” By the time of the album’s closer, “This Isn’t Control,” an illusionless gloom hangs over the entire affair with all the heaviness of deeply-felt experience. No over-singing or long-winded vocal runs here. Just evenhanded soul vocals that also manage to sound inspired. See the band live in NYC at Governors Ball on June 8. – Brian Chidester
NYC
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I, Synthesist releases video + album
“Hello Virginia” is the new video by NYC goth revivalist, I, Synthesist (nee Chris Ianuzzi). The video features weather-worn pedestrians suffering through this year’s oppressive winter, a middle-aged male wearing some kind of steampunk eyeglass contraption and a young blonde punk girl who climbs stairwells looking generally forlorn. There’s also a little girl that appears about 3/4th of the way in, a point at which I truthfully gave up on narrative altogether. Luckily, the actual music from the video was more interesting. A menacing darkwave beat convulses underneath a buzzsaw of synth loops in typical goth fashion. When its gravely-voiced singer croaks out his dramatic exordium to the elusive Virginia, things feel icy and chilly, not unlike the weather. Dark, moreover… like the world. Beware the non-conformist. – Brian Chidester
NYC
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MidCoast Cares presents Rock For Relief: A Benefit for Moore, Oklahoma
Tonight, MidCoast Cares (who also raised money for the relief effort in the 2011 Joplin tornado) presents Rock For Relief: A Benefit for Moore, Oklahoma, which was recently devastated by a tornado.
Doors open at 5:30 and the show starts at 6, beginning with Ghost Town Heart, then She’s A Keeper, Not A Planet, Antennas Up, Beautiful Bodies, and closing out with Cover Me Badd. The event is at KC Live! in the Power & Light District. There are NO presale tickets. General admission is $10; $20 will get you entry, two drink tickets, and access to the VIP Lounge. All proceeds will go to benefit the tornado recovery in Moore through Heart to Heart International. A silent auction will also be held, and the first 200 attendees will receive a buy-one-get-one-free card from Chipotle.
Join the Kansas City music community for a great cause to help our neighbors in Oklahoma. Here’s the Facebook event page.
–Michelle Bacon