Great news for NYC indie pop band DREAMERS, who were chosen from a large pool of hopefuls as direct support on the upcoming Stone Temple Pilots tour. The band was recently featured in our Best Emerging NYC Bands list.

Mysterious Brooklyn electronica duo GRUMBY, who made our recent list of Best Emerging NYC Artists, produces evocative and free music. Emancipated from danceability and structural concerns, their tunes introduce the listener to a world of beautiful sonic encounters, unexpected aural developments, and tasteful textures. The most striking of their recent tracks are eastern sounding single ‘Sultana Melek’ (our favorite one, streaming), which showcases a noteworthy production and attention to the detail, and "Yoshi’s Penthouse," which sounds like an exercise in electro-lounge. This track confirm our suspicion that today’s electronica is filling in for that genre you may remember your grandparents mentioning, called jazz (and all its derivatives), i.e. music that’s more losely structured than pop and relies heavily on improvisation – whether recorded or live. Grumby will appear at Bushwick Lot 45 on Thursday February 26.

Kristie Redfield’s brainchild Flying Pace (a band that needs a bigger couch, so that they can feel more comfortable in front of a camera) released its third EP "The Spectacle," at the end of 2014. The record sounds like an interesting blend of styles quite disconnected from each other. The overall sound is indie, but the approach is consistently mellow, with odd tempos often recalling the angularity of math rock. We hear some kind of jazzy influence in there too, but as soon as that thought materialized, their song switched to a very simple pop section. Single "Flying Pace Theme Song" (streaming) nicely sums up this complexity and unpredictabiliy. See Flying Pace at Mercury Lounge on Sunday 03.01 .