Genevieve has released an amazing video for her song "Colors". The video is Wizard of Oz inspired and the track comes from Genevieve’s debut solo EP by the same title.
NYC
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Not Blood Paint brings madness to Cameo tonight (03.27)
Those New Yorkers who find the typical indieshtik a little long in the tooth may want to look into a simple cure called Not Blood Paint. The Brooklyn quartet is not afraid to get their hands dirty with quirkiness of all kinds, alternatively flirting with epic excesses and theatrical set ups. You can find them at their best on a stage, where they integrate their dramatic music with crazy costumes and synchronized moves. You have the opportunity to see them live tonight (03.27) at Cameo.
New England
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Deli Premiere: “No Moon” by Doug Wartman
I was always told that the standard release date for music is supposed to be a Tuesday–who came up with that? And why? Anyway, I just saw an article in Rolling Stone today that said the “global standard” will now be Fridays, so this post won’t stand-out so much. In fact–I’d say this is cutting-edge. You heard it here first–The Deli New England is paving the way for Friday release coverage.
On that note, “No Moon”, the title track (and first single) from Doug Wartman’s new album is–for lack of a more profound phrase–a beautiful piece of music. The guitar work sounds like Nick Drake if he played Explosions in the Sky–definitely a very soothing listen. I was most impressed by the “strings” that are played throughout the piece. I was surprised to learn that the cello-like sound is actually a bowed guitar, which I find very unique. This effect, coupled with well-timed dynamic shifts, adds intensity and a bit of tension to the music as well. Overall, I’d say Wartman is damn good at writing a complex piece of music and I’m excited to hear what the rest of his album sounds like.
The record comes out April 10 via Eye Design Records and will be celebrated at O’Brien’s in Allston, along with guests Ghosts of Sailors at Sea and Sand Reckoner.
For more information, check out Doug’s Facebook page. Updates about the release show can be found here.
-Dan McMahon (@dmcmhn)
Album Art: Lynne Wartman
San Francisco
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Travis Hayes Releases New EP – Plays Doc’s Lab – 3/28
Singer/songwriter, Travis Hayes is celebrating the release of his new three track album entitled, Love Songs. The album features the vocals of Emily Whitehurst (mainly known for her work in Tsunami Bomb and The Action Design) and paints a vivid picture of Hayes’ personal experiences with love. Hayes is a refreshingly traditional folk artist who doesn’t need to add too many frills to his music. He can capture an emotion or idea with his guitar and voice, but certainly takes the time to add simple elements that extenuate his overall artistic atmosphere. Love Songs features the cello and of course, Emily’s lovely voice, making the collection of songs very beautiful and very to point.
Hayes makes some classy music. You can check him out live tomorrow night at Doc’s Lab in San Francisco with Lauren O’Connell.
Philadelphia
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Weekend Warrior, March 27 – 29
Heavy shoegaze quartet Nothing returns to Philly this evening at Underground Arts. The band has been on a nearly month-long tour obliterating music venues with noisy Miami stoner metal provocateurs Torche and Spanish black metal crew Wrong. Hopefully this time home will be a good chance for Nothing to work on the follow-up to last year’s beloved breakout album Guilty of Everything (Relapse). Come out, and celebrate the boys surviving another journey! Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St., 8pm, $18, 21+ – Alexis V.
More places to rock this weekend…
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI Belgrade
The Boot & Saddle (1131 S. Broad St.) FRI You You Dark Forest, SUN Dying
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI Gondola, Beer Breakfast Dungeness Crab/Dogs on Acid, Clique/Flyherder, SAT (3pm) The Virus, Anti-Suburbians, Glory Dole/Disco Machine Gun/Good Company, SUN Fight Amp, The Company Corvette
Underground Arts (1200 Callowhill St.) FRI Nothing
Bourbon and Branch (705 N. 2nd St.) FRI Creem Circus (CD Release), Jukebox Zeroes, Souldiers of Soul, Candy Volcano, SAT Foreverinmotion, Wild North, SUN Todd Fausnacht, Spelling Reform
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) SUN (Balcony) Cute Girl From English, The Phonies, Electric Who?
TLA (334 South St.) SUN Motionless in White
Tower Theater (69th & Ludlow, Upper Darby, PA) FRI The War on Drugs
Franky Bradley’s (1320 Chancellor St.) FRI Northern Arms
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) FRI (Upstairs) Come + Talk 2 Me: A Soulidified Tribute
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Jesus’ Older Brother, HighKick, The Wondershop Showdown, SAT Dirty Soap Blues Band, SUN RAD Benefit Concert: Pat (From Spraynard), Brian (From Victory In Numbers)
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI Mock Suns, SAT Foxtrot and the Get Down, Lou, Big Terrible, SUN The Yetis, Little Strike
Ortlieb’s Lounge (847 N. 3rd St.) FRI Davey and The Chains, A Locomotive, SAT The Improbables, SUN Husky Bundles, St. James & The Apostles
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) FRI Poor Yorick, A Victim Of Good Times, SAT Railroad Fever, Johnny Miles
Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St) FRI Blair Bodine, Victoria Spaeth, Rachel Eve
Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) SAT Mr. Charlie, SUN Rusty Cadillac
The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.) FRI Uphevil, Scars Like These, Graces Downfall/Soraia, The Quixote Project, Megan Knight, SAT Moka , Paulette Branson & Mixed People, Garnika/Eric Reavey, Angela Burns, Taylor Ash, SUN (2pm) Bluebond Kids/Infused Miscreation, Lightning Arms
Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St) FRI The Late Greats, Warbirds, Lamme, SAT Radio Eris, SUN Solus Rex, Magnificent Birds of Prey, Inconsiderate Bastards
Voltage Lounge (421 N. 7th St.) SAT First of Autumn, The Casual, Under This Fire, Rasan Allbritton, Memories of March
XO Lounge (1437 South St.) FRI Blue Coal, Generation Empty, Shithawks
The Grape Room (105 Grape St) FRI Justin Phillippi, Gavilán, Jahwula, SAT The Beta Phase, Stellar Belly, The Good Mess, Grand Strangers
Ardmore Music Hall FRI Billy Mungus Big Band, SAT David Uosikkinen’s In The Pocket, SUN Psych-A-Billy, Goose Creek Pioneers, Lovers League, Black Horse Motel
The Pharmacy (1300 S. 18th St.) SUN Legs Like Tree Trunks, Robins
Everybody Hits (529 W. Girard Ave.) SAT DRGN King, Dream Safari, Hello Shark
Creep Record (1050 N. Hancock St., Suite 76) FRI Seeing Snakes, Evening River Band, Mt. Billions, The Cats
Baker Bowl (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Christopher Walking, Tribute, Languid Pennsylvania, Frontyards
Mile High House (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Snoozer, Pill Friends, Buster
Lavender Town (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Ghost Gum, The Retinas, SAT Mumblr, Marietta, Fake Boyfriend, Blue Smiley
Red Barns (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT Repellers, Incisor
Beaumont Warehouse (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Dridge, The Brood
Motel Hell (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Boroughs, +HIRS+, Knife Hits, Constraint
Mihouse (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Uncle/Father Oscar, Second Marriage
2nd Empire (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT Dronez
LAVA Space (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Trophy Wife, Moor Mother Goddess, Rasheedah Phillips
The Sound Hole (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SUN Whoosy Daisy
NYC
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Matteah Baim plays Baby’s All Right on March 31
The best artists are always those able to create quality music that can’t be easily associated with precise genres or musical eras. NYC songwriter Matteah Baim‘s third album "Falling Theater," released seven years after her sophomore LP "The Laughing Boy," is a peculiar folk record that at times matches – in sparseness and ghostliness – Nico’s solo releases, minus the gothic tendencies of the German singer-songwriter. Matteah will be appearing live at Baby’s All Right on Tuesday March 31.
We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best mellow songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!
Philadelphia
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Mt. Billions on the Verge of Eruption at Creep Records March 27
Mt. Billions builds up like a volcano on the verge of eruption. Gradually churning swells of ominous tone with earth rattling pulses of bass reinforced by advancing percussion and guitars that distortedly ring through like sirens, and the vocals offer distressing echoes amid the impending disaster, developing a potent enveloping atmosphere that surrounds you in a layer of smoke unable to see the path, while using the slivers of guitar to cut through the haze and the bass lines as a homing device. Tonight, Mt. Billions is featured on a free billing, which also includes the steep sprinting pop-punk charge of Seeing Snakes. Evening River Band casts dense grey clouds overhead with their downtrodden folk that manifests serious storms lay ahead as electric guitar buzzes like lightning and backend rumbles. Lo-fi punk rockers The Cats‘ simple stampeding sound brings a transferable energy you’ll naturally consume, completing the lineup. Creep Records, 1050 N. Hancock St., Suite 76, 7pm, Free, All Ages – Michael Colavita
Toronto
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Jonesin’ and the Hurt
I couldn’t have picked a better day to listen to this folk rock group, Jonesin’ and the Hurt. Turning them up on the car stereo as the rain hits the window, we have no worries with their latest album Why Not?. The Entire album puts a bounce in your step with rustic roots. “Please Give Me” took my mood and transformed it with nice harmonies over a smooth groove. Get to see them touring Toronto the entire month; but, you’ll never know when you might run into them rockin’ out on the corner. Check them out April 3rd @ the Bovine Sex Club.–Kris “Big City” Gies
Toronto
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Vast Robot Armies
There’s a bit of a mystery surrounding Toronto prog rock band Vast Robot Armies. Are they space-robots? or something? Their latest record “Little Creatures” out early this month is an epic adventure. “Revenge For Nerds” sets the tone with some space-aged guitars that guide you through the intergalactic journey on the Vast Robot Armies spaceship. The vocals remind me a bit of the Meat Puppets with more of a rounded edge. This record will keep your head in the clouds wondering where you’re going to end up next. And that is the question…when will Vast Robot Armies appear for a live show in Toronto? Like their facebook page and download their record and the message will arrive when the planets have aligned. Whoa.-Kris “Big City” Gies
Philadelphia
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New Track: “Nothing Weird” – Thin Lips
Found on their EP Divorce Year, which will be released on cassette on May 5 via Seagreen Records, Thin Lips‘ latest single, “Nothing Weird,” is jumpstarted by a momentous riff as Chrissy Tashijan depicts a definitive tale of a relationship ending. It’s a song that hits an emotional note, while occupying a tough POV as Tashijan pushes through the discord and moves forward. You can stream the track over at Stereogum. Thin Lips will be touring with Hop Along, making a stop on May 9 at Union Transfer.
Austin
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Interview with the One-Man Composer Roger Sellers, now Bayonne
The enigmatic and energetic one-man composer Roger Sellers had a big SXSW with The Deli, with not only a cover article in our South By print issue, but also headlining our showcase at the Austin Convention Center. Somehow between doing all of that and his other South By Southwesterly duties, Sellers found the time to chat with The Deli’s own Brian Chidester about his career and his approach to music. Check out what Mr. Sellers had to say below, along with a few of his best recent tracks.
Brian Chidester: You were working in a roots direction not long ago. What brought about the new direction and interest in things like Minimalism, electro and "Pet Sounds"?
Roger Sellers: Minimalism is something that I’ve always been inspired by and practiced in my recordings through the years, but it definitely became more prevalent in Primitives. For my last 3 studio records, I would generally start from scratch to record and write simultaneously. Primitives was a much different approach. Most of the songs on the record had already been written and performed for about 5 years. Primitives was a way for me to release the songs publicly on hard media, so that people could enjoy them in their homes or cars, not just at a show or on youtube. While it does have many aspects of electro involved, most of what you hear was recorded acoustically.
CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THE INTERVIEW WITH ROGER SELLERS
Nashville
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Blank Range to Release “Phase II” 10″ 4.10
Okay, so if you’re a Blank Range fan, you might already have a cassette of "Phase II" kicking around in your car. The band recorded the 6-track tape back in April of 2013, an ambling testament to true garage grit that sparked enough momentum to won them a Bonnaroo set, sent them to SXSW, and lead them to record the 7" "Scrapin/Before I Go To Sleep" with a real engineer in a legitimate (read: non-basement) studio the following fall. The tape also wraps up with "Last Crash Landing," one of the most enduring gut-punchers of a song that we’ve come across thus far. Now the band is preparing to release a 10" pressing of "Phase II," lest there be an empty 10" space on their merch table on their upcoming 28-date tour supporting Two Gallants and Mountain Goats. Blank Range will be marking the occasion with a show at The Basement on April 10th with local bros Music Band and Joey Plunket. The show kicks off at 8pm and tickets are $5, so come on out and pick up the new format! -Terra James-Jura