Congratulations to The David Motel for winning our latest Artist of the Month poll! It was a close race betweem The Vamptones and The David Motel, until a last minute push sent the vote in their favor. "People, Places, Things" is the title of their debut album, released just last month. The trio (all named David, by the way) spin Americana yarns about love and the gradual heartbreak of living. Fiddle, harmonica, and straight rock’n’roll beats all find their rightful place on the album, though we particularly loved the Western twang to "Goodbye Loneliness."Check out thedavidmotel.com for shows, news, and a full stream of the album. -Terra James-Jura
San Francisco
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Mall Walk and Dead Meat Support Naomi Punk and PC Worship at Brick and Mortar Music Hall – 3/11
The popular East Bay post punk band, Mall Walk will be performing live with fellow Bay Area based band, Dead Meat (Dead Meat recently moved to San Francisco from Miami, Fl.). The bill is eclectic due to the 50/50 local and out of town spilt. The influential Olympia/Seattle, Washington band, Naomi Punk will be traveling to play at Brick and Mortar Music Hall on March 11th, along with NYC based avant punk band, PC Worship.
Brick and Mortar is hosting a show that is bringing together bands from all over the US. Make your way out and support local and touring bands! DJ Al Lover will be spinning the night away between sets. Don’t miss this show!
Philadelphia
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New Video: The Castle Inn Sessions – Lewis & Clarke
Shot by Dan Papa & Larry DeMark and recorded by Don Sternecker at Mix-O-Lydian Studios, this Castle Inn Session captures Lewis & Clarke, as a group, performing five songs from their album Triumvirate (La Société Expéditionnaire). There’s a haunting elegance as if the music will stir up the ghosts of the Delaware Water Gap’s past. Or better – with its cold classic black & white aesthetic, the band momentarily inhabited the storied legend.
NYC
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Dreamy and droney Brooklyn band: Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk
It’s always interesting when a band employs vocals without actual lyrics, or sings completely unintelligible ones. The technique was made popular by Cocteau Twins and their dream pop/shoegaze descendents, but it’s also used in various extreme metal genres, where screaming corrupts the words’ meaning. Brooklyn’s preposterously named Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk are firmly embedded in the former category, and their sound is a beautiful one. “Saturday” moves with the minor key melancholia and descending progression of prime mid-90’s dreamgaze practitioners like Slowdive. Additional tracks like “Burt” pop and crackle with the feel of a late night jam session. The melody is strong, but any semblance of literal meaning is merely suggested. This is the musical equivalent of an impressionists water color painting. A surprisingly soulful element emerges however, with the romanticism of early 1970’s r&b act The Chi-Lites discovered under a layer of Kevin Shields’ My Bloody Valentine filters. The band is currently in the studio recording new material. – Dave Cromwell
We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best psych songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!
NYC
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Dream folk from Brooklyn: Florist plays Silent Barn on 02.20
Emily Sprague’s DIY dream folk project Florist conjures up some of the most consistently sparse and quiet music you can hear in Brooklyn these days. This is pretty much a love affair between Eily’s delicate melodies, a few assorted sounds, and the hiss of cassette tape, which seems to be the band’s format of choice for both recording and releasing – by the way, who would have thought, 25 years ago, that hiss would have come back to fashion? We all hated it!). The three releases to date feature some beautiful songs, like the one streaming below, title track of the 2013 six track cassette "We Have Been This Way Forever." You can see Florist live at Silent Barn on February 20.
Philadelphia
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Share Regrets, Hopes & Dreams w/Roof Doctor at Bourbon & Branch Feb. 18
Before going into hibernation to work on a new record, Roof Doctor headlines the lineup at Bourbon & Branch this evening. With a new configuration, sans saxophone, the band will certainly sound different; however, what remains are truly revealing songs that play like a combination of open diary/internal observations. Those personal snapshots exposed over a loose surf-rocking backdrop, endear in a relatable head-clearing exercise, catching a spectrum of regrets, hopes and dreams along the way. Cherokee Red sweeps you up in the comforting breeze of their daydreaming folk-pop amalgamation. With cozy floating melodies and warm inviting vocals, it will seem natural to drift right along with them. The genre-blurring, vocal-driven rock of Those People will energetically open the night. Bourbon & Branch, 705 N. 2nd St., $10, 8pm, 21+ (Photo by Patrick Thomas) – Michael Colavita
Philadelphia
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New Track: “Panama (Telequanta Remix)” – Dream Safari
Below is a new remix of Dream Safari‘s "Panama" from Telequanta, the electronic project from J. Termini and now Patrick Schlitzer. They take a laidback, glitched-out approach to the single before letting the vocals seep into the forefront, turning the original upbeat dance track to something more contemplative. Press play, and let it wash over you.
L.A.
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The Eiffels ready debut EP, share new track “I Did It Now”
The glitzy beats and slick grooves that encompass The Eiffels‘ debut track, "I Did It Now", present a fetish for 80’s caprice with modern production elements. It’s an immense anthem that flagrantly evokes a bygone era, with a propulsive backbeat and processed synth licks begging to be danced to. Producers Will Brierre and Ethan Kaufmann bring their big-picture expertise to the still fledging trio, who’ve worked with every succesful pop rock act under the sun (Imagine Dragons, Neon Trees, The Killers), so expect them to break through in a big, big way in the coming months. The Eiffels’ debut EP should arrive sometime in the Spring, which they’ll be promoting with a number of continental tour dates starting in April.
Austin
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Tangence
Austin can’t stop making world-class beats. I mean really, it’s like every other day someone here puts out some new shit that is living on that burning edge of advanced innovative beatmaking. This time around it’s Tangence, also known as Tanner Griffin, who came out of the digital woods a couple days ago bearing a six-track short album called Lovers Lost, and it is the straight, uncut goods.
Tangence is part of the Sole Glow Collective (we’ve profiled some Sole Glow-related acts lately, like ManoftheDown), and this newest release follows in the Sole Glow tradition of undeniably thoughtful, electronic genre-bending music with a clear hip-hop influence. More than even some of his Austin contemporaries like ManoftheDown, who admittedly has a foot firmly in the experimental pond, Tangence plays around with his BPM and influences in every track, sometimes even switching up the sound completely multiple times in the same track. Album opener "With Me" and track "The Truth" even go almost ambient at parts, which is pretty damn cool and gives the whole album a refreshing narrative substance that few electronic acts aim for these days. The whole piece of work here is solid end-to-end, and it’s just another bit of proof to throw onto the growing mountain of production work that is a digital monument to Austin becoming a key figure in the national beat-making scene. Check out standout track "With Me" below, and the rest of the album here, where you can also order the thing in super-limited-edition vinyl form. Additionally, those in the 512 with ears and a will to get mindblown by beats can see Tangence along with our December Artist of the Month ManoftheDown and a few of their excellent friends at Vulcan Gas Co. on February 20 for no damn cover. Free beats, y’all.
NYC
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Noir Folk from NJ: Ryan Hobler releases “The Elusive Yes” at Rockwood on 02.19
Stick the word "noir" next to pretty much anything, and… we are (pretty much) sold! Noir comedies, noir pop, noir novels, noir pants and socks it always works… New Jersey songwriter Ryan Hobler new album can be described as noir folk, and the man seems to find himself at home in that genre. Check out this slow burning gem entitled "See What You’re Doing to Me," track #2 from the artist’s upcoming album "The Elusive Yes," and get lost in the dense fog of reverb and uh-uuuhs; the saddest and most haunting melody we’ve heard in a while unravels heart wrenching lyrics about a love that hurts, with references to physical pain ("Closing both eyes while turning the other cheek") and self sacrifice ("Oh I’d give everything to you my love – ‘Til I’m pale as a ghost and blood doesn’t flow in my veins"). Don’t miss the album release party this Thursday February 19 at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 3.
We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best rootsy songs by emerging NYC/NJ artists – check it out!
NYC
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Porches is The Deli NYC’s Best Emerging Artist of 2014. Mitski is #2, Beverly #3
Deli Readers,
Our Best of NYC Poll for Emerging Artists has been – as usual – a lengthy and painstaking journey which took us through prairies of numbers, horizons filled with band names, and a dense, (mostly) joyous rain of music, but we have finally arrived at destination: we can announce the final results. This year we heave a very electric guitar heavy chart – at least for the top positions.
We are happy to announce that Porches is The Deli NYC’s Emerging Artist of the Year, and will therefore grace the cover of the upcoming spring issue of The Deli. We’ve been fans of the band for a while now (their beautiful latest release "Slow Dance in the Cosmos" was our record of the month back in December 2013), and we’ll take this opportunity to reveal that we actually offered them the cover of The Deli twice in the past 6 months, something that didn’t materialize only because in both instances they couldn’t play a show linked to the issue’s launch. As they say, it was destined to happen!
Another recent Deli record of the month landed in second place: uber-talented solo indie rocker Mitski (a project we have a feeling will soon become a band, because, well… it sounds like a band!). Her 2014 record "bury me at makeout creek" reveals a multifaceted talent, but first and foremostly, great songwriting.
One of The Deli’s staff’s favorite genres – dream pop – gets on the podium thanks to guitarist and vocalist Drew Citron’s brainchild Beverly, whose debut album "Careers" enjoyed the creative input of ubiquitous Brooklyn DIY scene talent Frankie Rose, who left the band shortly after the record was released (that’s what ubiquitous musicians do!).
If you wonder how this chart came into existence, here is how it all went down: first, we let the local bands submit their music (for free), and got our Deli editors to pick the nominees. Then we polled a list of 15+ NYC scene expert (our jury) and asked them to nominate 3 more bands of their choice each. Then we polled our writers, then we polled our readers. We tried to keep things open for each single genre, from Indie Rock to Roots Music to Hip Hop.
If you are a geek interested in all the subtelties related to how this poll works, you can read its rules here (happy reading!). But if all you care about is the awesome new music NYC produced in the year 2013, this list is all you need. Enjoy!
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