Brooklyn fuzz-pop trio Dead Stars takes your lost early 90’s passion and makes it relevant again. Their catchy choruses and deceivingly lackadaisical vocals will have you humming their songs for days, catching your ears and keeping them intrigued with raucous power chords and sudden change in dynamics. Check out “Waste Away” (streaming below) and see them open for White Fence and Jonathan Rado at Glasslands Gallery tomorrow (09.18) as part of the Converse Rubber Tracks Live series – Michael Haskoor (@Tweetskoor)
Philadelphia
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The Cobbs Opening for Clinic & Grooms at JB’s Sept. 17
After going on tour with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Kasabian a few years back, things seemed quite promising for The Cobbs, but then there was silence. Now, it’ rather rare to see the band’s name on a bill, and you can always tell that it’s been a while since a group has made any moves when you need to listen to their music over at MySpace. You’ll more likely see the Cobb brothers manning the boards at Johnny Brenda’s than taking its stage these days. Well, with bands like Clinic and Grooms rolling into town tonight, it makes absolute sense that The Cobbs will be dusting off their sinister hook-laden rock tunes to host these fine touring acts. Come by JB’s this evening because you never know when you’ll get to experience the siblings’ fine songwriting craftsmanship again. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 9pm, $14, 21+ – H.M. Kauffman
NYC
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From The Deli NYC’s online music submissions: Dallas Heron
Dallas Heron‘s folksy meanderings contain a large, haunting and uncontained sound, vaguely reminiscent of Band of Horses or Tyler Ramsey. Hailing from Hobart, Tasmania’s thriving DIY scene, Heron now calls New York home, and has brought his steel string and signature finger picking style on the trip with him. A truly unique experience, both foreign and familiar at once, Heron and his music will envelope you in lush soundscapes, and make you forget how easily he’s able to construct these wandering dreams, in tracks built around swinging guitar lines (‘Comedy Gold’) and a lost tenor (‘Mistakes’). Get to know him below with latest single ‘Harlem Bound (demo-ish).’ – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)
This artist submitted his music for coverage here.
Philadelphia
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New Track: “Flageolet” – Dante Bucci
Local Hang drum master and YouTube sensation Dante Bucci recently shared the first single, "Flageolet," from his forthcoming debut full-length album Kinesthesia. We think that he should release the stems for some type of remix contest. The LP will be available for pre-order on October 1 via iTunes, and he’ll be celebrating its release on October 25 at Melodies Cafe in Ardmore.
NYC
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Crossroads Music Fest Highlights, 9.14.13
(Photos by Jaime Russell, Anthem Photography)
The beginning of fall also coincides with Kansas City’s Crossroads Music Fest, which entered its ninth year this past Saturday. This year, the fest covered six venues: Crossroads KC (behind Grinder’s), The Brick, Czar Bar, Midwestern Musical Co., Green Lady Lounge, and Collection.
Several local bands and a number of national bands graced each stage, a variety of music ranging from jazz to hard rock to soul to single acoustic acts to a 15-person outfit. Here are some of the highlights from earlier shows in the evening.
Crossroads Music Fest is organized by Bill Sundahl at Spice of Life Productions. It was co-sponsored by Midwest Music Foundation, Kansas City Lawyers & Accountants for the Arts, and FanAddict.
Nashville
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Kristi Rose and Fats Kaplin Album Release Show at the Basement 9.17
Tuesday marks the national release of “The Fatman Cometh & World of Wonder,” a deluxe album by Kristi Rose and Fats Kaplin. Fats has performed with Jack White as part of the Buzzards, and has played a range of instruments with a range of artists that include Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, and Paul Burch in his decades in music. Combined with his other half, Kristi Rose, they pilot the genre of Pulp Country, and what an enthralling, intimate, singular soundscape it is. The video “All is Gone” parallels their style by creating drama from very few elements. Witness a fantastic show at the Basement tonight at 7pm, pick up the album, and keep glancing back at the bar in hopes of seeing Kinky Friedman leaning in the shadows. -Terra James-Jura
Portland
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Havania Whaal Tape Release at The Tube 9.18
Havania Whaal fall into a space between the garage, noise-rock, post-punk and shoegaze genres. They take elements of each and inject them with an experimental energy you can only achieve by attaching a set of pickups to a mandolin and distorting it’s traditional sound until it becomes something otherworldly. This sound and a charged live show has brought them through the crowded house shows and bars of Portland to The Tube, where they are set to release their new ‘slime green” cassette tape, Château De Chienne this Thursday night. Be there to experience Havania Whaal in their gritty, noise filled and ecstatic glory. The show starts at 9, Mister Tang, The Mishaps and DJ Alligator Heart will be performing as well. – Benjamin Toledo
Chicago
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The Nurse Novels
There is another The Nurse Novels album?! Yes, it is called Poof! and will be released on October 1st. The Nurse Novels is a band formed several years ago from the remains of Let’s Get Out Of This Terrible Sandwich Shop (Thea Lux, Tony Mendoza, and Tom Vale) and Nicole Vitale of Unicycle Loves You.
The band released an album in 2012 called "Frozen Muzak" and began working a follow-up. The band has dissolved, but those recordings are now being released. If you order the album through their bandcamp you also receive a bonus ep called "Rejection Hawaii".
Chicago
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How To Dress Well Mixtape
Tom Krell (aka How To Dress Well) has released a new mixtape called "i think life might be elsewhere (hungover mix)". The 45 minute mix includes Krell singing the viral hit "Wrecking Ball" from Ms. Cyrus and appearances from Kanye and Chief Keef.
San Francisco
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Thunderegg Review
Mike of The Deli Magazine NYC has given us a little guest contribution. Thanks Mike!
-jordannah, sfeditor
A fixture of he Bay area’s DIY scene for well over a decade now, alt-rock group Thunderegg has gone through many changes, but have always kept the music fun, catchy, and lyrically inspiring… sort of like Robert Pollard’s alt-country, if Robert Pollard sobered up a bit.
Latest record ‘Not What I Meant’ contains the kinds of difficulties and contradictions familiar to any long term listener of Will Georgantas’s lo-fi 4-track adventures. While the title track details the problems of communicating what you mean in a relationship, album closer ‘what I Wrote Down’ is a country jamboree of reflective sentiments. Regrets abound, but never sounded as much fun. Check it out below. Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)
NYC
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DCHeavyMetal.com’s 4th Anniversary Party @ The Fillmore 9/26
DCHeavyMetal.com is the best source for all things metal that roll through the DC area, and on Thursday Sept. 26 they are celebrating their 4th anniversary with an awesome party at the Fillmore in Silver Spring MD. Headlining the night is Philly’s sci-fi themed thrashers Vektor, and joining the line-up are a bunch of locals including Harrisonburg-based thrash metal band Earthling, heavy metal from DC/Richmond’s Midnight Eye (check them out below,) DC stoner rock Borracho, and more stoner metal from Baltimore’s Asthma Castle. In between sets the metal will continue with Metal Chris, founder of the site, taking over the nights metal playlist.
Doors @ 7 PM, $12 – Get tickets here!
NYC
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Blanche Blanche Blanche announces debut album “Breaking Mirrors
Every year, in our Best of NYC Emerging Artists Poll we get at least one band (picked by one of our jurors) that is so obscure it doesn’t even have music online – not to mention a Facebook profile. In the latest 2012 edition, this band was Blanche Blanche Blanche. Although Google didn’t share much info about them, between 2010 and 2013 they had already released not two but seven full length records, recorded – of course – on the very retro multitrack cassette format.
If you were to imagine how this band’s music sounded from they way they describe it, you probably wouldn’t even give them a shot: "For Breaking Mirrors we wrote material designed to be played in unison by a rock instrumentation against a vocal countermelody. The bassist & guitarists were provided with melodies in the form of series of named eighth notes ( 3F 4E 2A 2C, begins "Fisted" ) but were free to determine their movement between octave registers."
But words don’t matter too much, and the preview single "I Just Wanna Know" (streaming below) is a super fun, super fast and super quick lo-fi pop gem featuring nasal vocals, odd tempos and sudden changes reminiscent of the Pixies. Some kind of frantic toy drums dictate a neckbreaking tempo, followed faithfully by super effected guitars, while a series of well placed noises contribute to an overall atmosphere of tightly organized chaos. We dig! – Photo by Christina Schneider
We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!