May God preserve veteran garage rockers Obits, one of the living proofs that NYC still rules when it comes to rock’n’roll. The band is set to release their third LP titled “Beds & Bugs” this September. In anticipation of this, the band has unveiled the forthcoming album’s first track titled “Taste the Diff”. Rick Froberg (of former Hot Snakes) nails the vocals with a raspy/punk/in-your-face attitude and sound that will make true rockers want to put the track in perennial loop mode – since it only lasts around 2:20… or does it? The song was featured on Stereogum and you can listen to it below! – Michael Haskoor (@Tweetskoor) 

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

Elk’s premiere EP “Cocoon” is intimate to say the least. Sounding more like bedroom demos rather than fully produced songs, their tracks manage to capture something nostalgic and inviting that many bands tend to loose in the recording studio. With a track like “Trails”, Elk shows us how lo fi and desserty that they can get, creating what can only be described as a wild west show down put to music. Oher tunes like “Mother Earth” display a dreamier side to them, revealing at times a noisier side reminiscent of The Flaming Lips. These ambient lo fi folk rockers are really on to something and we are really looking forward to hearing a full length in the future. – Sam Kogon (@samkogon)

Can music change our body’s perception of temperature? Probably not, but NYC’s Infinity Shred (once known as Starscream) gets very close to accomplishing that with their space-synth jams, which wrap the listener in several cold (and cool) layers of glacial synths. We don’t need bloody "warm" recordings in July, give us AC in the headphones!

Infinity Shed will be releaseing their sophonore full length ‘Sanctuary’ in September via OK Go’s label Parachute – check out the video of preview single ‘Void Ripper’ below, and see them at Glasslands on August 3 with The Depreciation Guild.

A dreamer from Miami, Wolf Colony creates intimate, hopelessly romantic confessionals set to heated dance floor journeys. From the boy-meets-world wonder of ‘Youth,’ to the yearning expressed in ‘Calling,’ singer-songwriter Seventhleopard and music producer Neal Sarin throw all their anxieties and confusions into picture perfect dreams that touch the dance floor and lift their situations up to the heavens. Especially fave track ‘Beauty,’ that’s sure to break a heart or two. Check it out below and see the duo when they head back to NY later this year. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

Sheron is the solo project of Modern Rivals’ bassist Andrew Sheron, and – at least from the preview track ‘Keyser Söze,’ streaming below – it sounds nothing like that band. The instrumentiation alone – featuring an oud, an octave violin, the coke box guitar, tuvan throat singing, a grand piano, and at least half a dozen voices in harmony – speaks volumes of what you can expect from this project. The single blends a rather cerebral Western songwriting style with exotic sounds and arcane sounding arrangements, developing from a verse as intimate as a whisper to a tense finale with tribal percussions and throat singing. The result is a track that sounds at once existentialist and mystical. Check Sheron out at their EP release party at Rockwood on July 7 – a full length is in the works for later this year.