Crooks on Tape are a devilishly clever trio that delivers a madcap fusion of far out synth experiments with improvisational rhythmic grooves. Listening to their latest in sequence, Fingerprint, is at first a maddening experience, since there’s so much creativity lurking within their psych-pop framework. But that’s not to say that the direction this album takes is unexpected, especially once you learn that the members behind the project are associated with equally unconventional acts like Enon, Vertical Scratchers, and acclaimed nineties cult act Brainiac. The band will be confounding their audience with their fascinating new record at Bootleg Bar next Friday, January 17th. – Juan Rodríguez
Austin
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Austin’s Open Submission Results for The Deli Magazine’s Year End Poll, 2013
Wow! We got almost twice as many submissions this year as we did last year. Thanks to everyone who helped spread the word and give bands a chance to have their music heard by critics all over the country. After tallying the votes for the Open Submissions stage of our Austin Year End Poll, it’s time to release the results.
Please note that no editor was allowed to vote for bands in their own scene. The editors that voted on the Austin scene were: Q.D. Tran (Deli Philadelphia), Jordannah Elizabeth (Deli San Francisco), and Paolo De Gregorio (Deli NYC, Editor-In-Chief).
Acts advancing to our Readers/Fans Poll with a ranking above 6.5:
1. Criminal Birds (Indie Rock) – 7.3
2. Emily Wolfe (Songwriters) – 7.2
3. The Vliets (Psych Rock) – 7.2
4. Growl (Indie Pop/Rock) – 7
5. Hikes (Folk Pop) – 6.8
6. Danny Malone (Songwriters) – 6.8
7. Language Room (Alt Rock) – 6.6
8. Foe Destroyer (Garage Pop/Rock) – 6.6
9. Milezo (Psych Pop/Rock) – 6.6
Honorable Mentions (ranked above 6.0):
Calliope Musicals (Psych Pop/Rock) – 6.3
Lake Lady and the Mountain Man (Soul/Indie Pop) – 6.3
Paula Maya (World Music) – 6.3
Anya (Hip Hop) – 6.2
Total submissions from the Austin Scene: 43
WHAT’S NEXT: These results end the first phase of the poll. In the next few days we’ll unveil the artists nominated by our local jurors (mostly venue promoters and other industry people who know the Austin scene insode out), and we’ll let our readers and writers influence the poll with their vote.
Thanks to all the acts who submitted to us. Our open submissions pool was truly a celebration of the diversity and richness of Austin’s talent. Keep creating, keep supporting and stay tuned for your chance to vote!
The Deli Staff
Philadelphia
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Weekend Warrior, Jan. 10 – 12
It’s pretty amazing to watch how the various communities within the Philly music scene have been progressing over the last few years. In the chiptune community, you really can’t talk about what is happening locally in that genre without mentioning 8static. The monthly chip music event is returning this Saturday to the North Star Bar with a lot to celebrate. The evening will also double as Cheap Dinosaurs’ release show for their new album Triangle Trash. Started by Dino Lionetti, the group has evolved to become a collaborative effort by the 8static family, consisting of Lionetti (composer/programming/synths), Danny Tarng (baritone guitar), Patrick “Bucky” Todd (drums), Joey Mariano (guitar/circuit bending /synth), Paul Weinstein (bass), and Daniel Davis (guitar). They’ll be bringing in former Philly native and now Phoenix-based chip-hopper Mega Ran, Sacramento’s Auxcide, and Rochester, NY’s SBThree will be providing the visuals for this 8-bit freak-out. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 8pm, $10, 21+ – H.M. Kauffman
Other places to escape from your home this weekend…
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) FRI The Wallace Brothers Band, The City Wide Specials
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) SAT Watery Love, Amanda X, Taiwan Housing Project
The Boot & Saddle (1131 S. Broad St.) FRI Mock Suns, Dreambook, Hurry, SAT JJL, Gondola
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) SAT Far-Out Fangtooth, SUN Banned Books, GG Lohan
Underground Arts (1200 Callowhill St.) SAT New Sound Brass Band
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) FRI Tiny Cities
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) FRI A Fistful of Sugar, West Philadelphia Orchestra, Aaron and The Spell, Black Horse Motel, SUN Amelia Scaillies, Amber Ladd, Steve Cal Band
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Dirty Soap Blues Band, Cthulhu Martini, Could’ve Been Kings, Damien Anthony, SAT Skurban Vintro, Caalypso
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI Shorty Boy Boy, Minka, Marathon, SAT Flightschool, Spare Change, Dead Tenors
Ortlieb’s Lounge (847 N. 3rd St.) FRI Joey Sweeney, Heyward Howkins, Mark Lanky
M Room (15 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Next To None, Travia, Mesmeria
Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St.) FRI Anjuli Josephine, Folly Fields, Acton Bell, SAT Paige Allbritton
Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) SAT Up the Chain (Solo), Dave Steel Blues Band, SUN Rusty Cadillac
The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.) FRI Khalid Quesada, Betty Iron Thumbs, SAT Chris Rattie & The Brush Valley Ramblers, Above Connecticut
Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St.) SAT Goddamnit
Half Moon Bar (4228 Lancaster Ave.) FRI Chimpgrinder, Rubbish, Maniacs on Wheels, Village
Voltage Lounge (421 N. 7th St.) FRI Andorra, Ariables, Science Club, Mikingmihrab
The Grape Room (105 Grape St.) FRI Alberta’s Court, Too Hot For Sleeves, Jonathan Monument, The Donuts, SAT Matt Gauss Band, The Barren Wells, Kyle Campbell
Golden Tea House (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT Kite Party, Gunk, Vietnam
Beaumont Warehouse (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT Dopestroke
LAVA Space (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SUN Benefit for the LAVA Space w/Dying, Capacities
West Kensington Ministry (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT Tygerstrype, Meth Dad, Chiffon, Mental Jewelry
The Dog Morgue (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Alex G
NYC
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Deli Best of NYC 2013 – Open Submission Results for INDIE POP
The Indie Pop results of our Best of NYC Poll for emerging artists are always the most anticipated – beware though! These are just the Open Submission results, i.e. the list of indie pop bands that qualified to the next phase of the poll by submitting online; there will be a longer list soon including bands voted by our jurors.
Total submissions in this category: 28
Artists Qualified to the next stage (Readers’ Poll, starting around 01.15):
1. Half Waif 8.5 (out of 10)
1. Hey Anna 8.5
3. Seasick Mama 8.33
3. Graph Rabbit 8.33
Honorable Mentions (scores above 7.16):
The Dirty Gems, Hurrah! A Bolt Of Light!, Coastgaard, Modern Merchant, The Roofer’s Union, Truest, Beecher’s Fault, Grand Cousin, Strip Darling, Dalton, dot and logic, Tropic of Pisces, Isle Of Rhodes, Marco Argiro.
Jurors: Charise Sowells (Deli Austin), Jordannah Elizabeth (Deli SB Area), PDG (Deli NYC)
Stay tuned for more results, and then for the readers’ poll!
The Deli’s Staff
San Francisco
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Wil Blades Plays the Boom Boom Room – 1/11
Do your best to make it out to the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco to check out the Bay Area’s premiere Hammond B3 organ player Wil Blades. By combining a vintage soulful feel and prodigious technique, Blades has become a staple of the SF jazz scene, performing with jazz legends like, Charlie Hunter, Billy Martin and Dr. Lonnie Smith. This Saturday, he’ll be playing with his new trio comprised of guitarist Jeff Parker from the post-rock band Tortoise and New Orleans drummer, Simon Lott.
For a night of feel good grooved out music at John Lee Hooker’s storied Boom Boom Room, we recommend you hang out and soak in the warm cosmic vibrations of the B3 organ of at one of the best night clubs in the city. –Ethan Varian
Philadelphia
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Village Travel the Less Beaten Path at Half Moon Bar Jan. 10
Philly has been surely building its reputation as a place nurturing a vibrant psych-rock community with acts like Birds of Maya, Purling Hiss, Creepoid, Spacin’ and Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band helping to lead the way. Well, there’s a relatively new band that recently caught my attention with their three-song demo The Harbinger. Local instrumental four-piece Village is laying down some heavy, sludgy stoner jams that are making the local lineage proud by harkening to the days of such greats as Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Like many of their forefathers, they have travelled off on the less beaten path where you’ll find them this evening performing at the Half Moon Bar alongside Chimpgrinder, Maniacs On Wheels, and Rubbish. Yup – smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em, folks. Half Moon Bar, 4228 Lancaster Ave., 8pm, $5, 21+ – Q.D. Tran
NYC
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Active Bird Community qualifies for The Deli’s Best of NYC 2013 Poll’s final stage (3rd place in ALT ROCK category)
Active Bird Community has the sound of a band that might hit you over the head if you mistakenly get too close to them. But their music is so inviting, you might end up in dangerous proximity for one of their electricity driven explosions. A word of advice: don’t let their softer tracks like ‘Eidolon”s crashing waves fool you (smooth as the song may sound), or the anthemic rise of latest track ‘Mooncalf.’ This is the calm before the storm of ‘Astrophobia’ or the relentless charge of ‘Open Up.’ This quartet does indeed mean business. I recommend listening to as much of this impossibly catchy band as possible, and with any luck… perhaps we’ll get a full-length release out of them soon. Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)
Full results of the Best of NYC for Emerging Artists ALT ROCK Open Submissions are here.
We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best Alt Rock songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!
NYC
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Brand new Americana from NYC: Wharfer plays The Knit tonight (01.10)
Like Leonard Cohen and early Johnny Cash meets Phosphorescent, Wharfer, a.k.a. Kyle Wall, groans and strums a spare, free-verse folk with a twinkle in its eye. The contemplative tales on his debut album as a solo artist ‘The Rattling’ cover simple acoustic guitar with piano, organ and a wand’s touch of reverb.
iPhone recording and midnights at McCarren Park create a distant, hollow feeling in Wall’s voice. The lyrics, printed with the song streams, read like self-reflective verses carried over from his years of poetry writing. It adds up to an echoing, ethereal sound enhancing the album’s phantom chain-rattling.
Wall plays his first show in Brooklyn as Wharfer tonight at the Knitting Factory. On the bill also The Middle Eight and Bear Ceuse – Bianca Seidman
We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best Rootsy songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!
Philadelphia
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New Track: “Oh Whitney” – Hurry
Hurry, the most recent project from the mind of Everyone Everywhere‘s Matt Scottoline, recently shared an uber-catchy, fuzzed-out track called "Oh Whitney." The single will appear on the band’s upcoming LP Everything/Nothing. You can catch them live this evening opening for Dreambook and Mock Suns at The Boot & Saddle.
Philadelphia
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Free Download: “Echoes Down the Corridor of Time” – Ben Warfield
This rainy morning has us in a chilled-out vibes kind of mood so we thought that Data Garden’s latest offering from Ben Warfield called "Echoes Down the Corridor of Time" might get you in the zone for the day/weekend. It’s off his upcoming release Songs of Light & Dust due out January 21, and you can stream and download the track for free. Below are a few words from Data Garden leading man Joe Patitucci, a.k.a. tadoma, that might help put what you are listening to in context.
"For those of you who don’t know Ben, he works in a lab doing research on development of intelligent lighting environments for NASA. This, along with his interest in night-sky photography and analog synthesis make him one of the most cosmic dudes I know."
NYC
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Drop Electric at DC Music Download
DC group Drop Electric has only been together for a few years, but that hasn’t stopped them from gaining major notice in the area. The band’s electronic, female-led music is somehow both melancholy and hopeful at the same time, and gives listeners the feeling of being alone in a large crowd. Drop Electric just released its label debut album, Waking Up to the Fire, in October 2013 and will be featured in DC Music Download’s 2-Year Anniversary Show at 9:30 Club on 1/25. –Katie Bowles
Austin
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Megafauna Prepares to Melt Faces at Austin Deli’s Well-Being for Women Showcase Tomorrow Night @ Spiderhouse Ballroom
The Austin music scene just wouldn’t be the same without the quirky, whimsical, experimental, melt your face off rock and roll trio, Megafauna. Nobody can forget the first time they’ve seen them. Nobody can forget the last. The band is tight, the songs are awesomely weird, but it’s Dani Neff, the Sultana of Shred, that leaves audiences happily bewildered and wide-eyed, mouths agape and thirsting for more.
Constantly touring, pumping out records, and playing local shows, it’s difficult to understand why we aren’t seeing Megafauna on the covers of Rolling Stone and Spin magazines. But fans are confident that they are heading straight in that direction. See some sick female shredding tomorrow at Spiderhouse Ballroom for the Well-Being for Women Showcase, so that you can say you saw Dani before she’s nationally referred to as the next Lita Ford or Joan Jett. – Written by Jodi Lang