New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
Rooftop Sessions has released a new video with the electro-pop band The Kickback. This video, like the others produced by Rooftop, beautifully captures the band and the city. The session was shot at Uncommon Ground.
You can catch The Kickback at Green Mill on November 23rd as part of The Paper Machete.
My Magic Shoes have released their debut EP, 7 On a Good Day. The trio brings the straight forward Alt Rock and make no apologies.
You can catch My Magic Shoes on November 21st at Liars Club and at Goose Island Wrigleyville on Nov. 30th.
The local label BLVD Records released the latest album from Fake Limbs, The Power of Patrician Upbringing, last week. According to the band, the project began as an album about FDR, but that concept was "scrapped due to time, breakdowns, life actions, and hubris". Fake Limbs continue be one of the best noise-rock bands in the city.
You can catch Fake Limbs at Empty Bottle on Dec. 11th.
We’ve been fans of ascetic drone’n’noise masters YVETTE for a long time – they were our NYC Record of the Month back in May 2011, and played our Best of NYC Fest that same year at Glasslands, so seeing Pitchfork deliver an 8.1 review for their debut album ‘Process’ totally made our day. Sure, the band will still be ignored by the pop obsessed masses, but this review will definitely be very effective in hitting that niche of noise cravers (mostly based in central Europe) who will keep the band going. Check out their video for Radiation, and… if you don’t get the genre, just think that this is pretty much how Chuck Berry sounded to our great-grandfathers’ ears!
Check out the epic composition that Choice/Cut alumnus Lushlife created for Weathervane Music’s Shaking Through called "Toynbee Suite" below! It’s a four movement, 10+ minutes hip-hop/orchestral masterpiece that features contributions from rjd2, Dave Hartley (Nightlands, The War on Drugs, etc.), YIKES the ZERO, Ricardo Lagomasino (Many Arms), Joshua Stamper and many others. You can also learn why and how it was created in the video as well. So dope – so proud of our man, Lush!
We’ve been taking note of the new wave of psychedelic-baroque pop, headed by artists including Foxygen and Jacco Gardner. New Jersey’s The Black Hollies have been playing a similar genre since the MySpace era (mid 00’s), which earns them the ‘precursor’ tag. Their October LP release ‘Somewhere Between Here And Nowhere,’ will get the vintage pop fans bobbing their heads back and forth – it’s safe to say that the guys are fans of the 13th Floor Elevators and know the entire ‘Nuggets’ compilation by heart. The title track single channels the late Velvet Underground and procedes suavely towards a 60’s inspired call-and-response sing along. The rest of the record slowly becomes a medley of 60’s underground psychedelia, with bits of late 70’s and early 80’s new wave thrown in the mix. What possibly stands out most, is the ending trilogy of "Lunatic Influenza" parts 1, 2, and 3. Lie down on your parents shag carpet, put on your headphones and get ready for a trip. – Sam Kogon @samkogon
We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best NYC songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!
Ricky Lewis is not one to mince words. The ex-bandmate from The Wools, a high energy rock band, has now opted instead for a reflective record of gently strummed indie dream folk for his new ‘Serious Mistress’ EP. The album is a history of cherished memories (‘Clay Baby’), and completely made-up memories (‘Cold War Dreams’) all set over an unassuming guitar, and a couple of unexpected layers of slide guitar and piano where you’ll least expect to hear them.
The EP may be tough at times to take, but there’s a kind of justice to it all. Like the way Neil Young’s honesty makes us all feel when we’re having a rough day. Check out opening track ‘Stop The Devil-Winged From Flight’ below. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)
We first learned about The THANGS a few years back when they were nominated for The Deli Philly’s year-end Best Emerging Artist(s) Poll by one of our knowledgeable jurors. The enigmatic production duo just released a fabulous, mind-blending LP of psychedelic hip-hop beats entitled Wedodo, which you can listen to in its entirety below. The record was released via homgrown electronic music indie label Data Garden, and there is available for purchase a rad limited-edition run of music seed-paper albums that you can plant and watch grow into blue Lobelias – really way too cool.
There’s a lot of downsizing going on, especially through company hiring processes, christmas gift giving, coffee allowances and band members. Bear and Moose are lucky to exist as a minimal band with maximum sound. The two members, Eric Mueller and Simon Lucas, take influence from early 90s alternative and colorful surf rock. The newest album, Inside the Eyewall, proves that these men do not subscribe to any rules in regards to writing music. Unconventional twists and sounds occur frequently. Feedback delicately masks melodies, distancing them from the listener. Unrestrained vocals give way to a push-pull race for power with the instruments, "Something We Can’t Share" is a perfect example of this. Just when you thought you had this band figured out, you are lost again. This is a good thing. – Colette Pomerleau
Hotel War compares themself to a ‘back-alley beating.’ Listening to the high level of ass-kick in “45,” it’s doubtful that they have ever been on the receiving end of any sort of aggression, alley or otherwise. They arrive at their sound by wrapping gritty distortion around blues and some Black Keys, and rolling it around cigarette butts, like grungy, leather-clad Martha Stewarts. It’s good stuff, and I can only hope that the promise of “great things” on their website include a full-length follow up to their recent EP “Rebels our Time.” They play the 5 Spot this Wednesday, 11/20 with Natural Outlaw, The Sandwich, and Bern Kelly. –Terra James-Jura
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Danny R. Phillips has been reporting on music of all types and covering the St. Joseph, MO music scene for well over a decade. He is a regular contributor to the nationally circulated BLURT Magazine and his work has appeared in The Pitch, The Omaha Reader, Missouri Life, The Regular Joe, Skyscraper Magazine, Popshifter, Hybrid Magazine, the websites Vocals on Top and Tuning Fork TV, Perfect Sound Forever, The Fader, and many others. |
