NJ quintet Terrible Terrible play a chilled but intense brand of psych pop, featuring intriguing sonic dialogues of various instruments including synthesizers, guitars, varied percussion, and three voices in close harmony. On May 8 at Coco66 the band will be celebrating the re-release of last year’s EP "Fail Better" as a split record, including remixes for each track by Basement Skylights.

The space between your eyes and your cerebellum; the weird spiraling flesh that juts out the sides of your head, the gateway to your nervous system, has just been filled by Coma Figura. What could be a more soothing intruder than the clean tones and soulful rasp of an Arthur Russell protégé, or the melodic honey drip from A Band of Bees Bee-side? Coma Figura have figured out how to keep it smooth in a Fleetwood Mac ‘Bare Trees’ kind of way, while maintaining the lyrical flips that will keep the listener on the edge of their seat.

In today’s mostly self-funded musical landscape, it is almost unavoidable for glam rock to be a penalized genre – since you always have pay bigger bucks for glamour. This makes us appreciate even more this stylized, elegant and very much staged video by Sterling Fox, for single "Freak Caroline." In particular if it’s true – as it seems – that it was partly funded through daily busking sessions in the NYC Subway (Sterling is a NYC songwriter and producer who’s written songs for Madonna and Lana Del Rey among others, so probably the Subway sessions are more fun than necessity). If you don’t stumble upon his live show in your favorite subway station in the next month, you can catch him at The Rock Shop on June 4th.

Not many electronic bands exploit the incredible array of possibilities opened by electronic instruments, settling instead for borrowed styles from the past, like 80’s synth pop or the various cliches tied to house music. This is obviously not the case for Brooklyn’s My Body, an electropop duo whose music sounds like a constant sonic experiment – that’s the approach The Deli likes and encourages. The band self released a strong EP in 2014 entitled "Six Wives," which has been picked up by Big Hunt Records and will be released with bonus material next week. While waiting, check out their single "Make It Good" (streaming) and don’t miss their live show at Cameo Gallery with Icky Blossoms and Psychic Twin, tomorrow May 1st.

We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!

Beauty Pill‘s new album "Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are" was released last Tuesday, April 21 via Butterscotch Records. The album comes 11 years after the band’s last release and after band leader Chad Clark survived a rare and typically fatal heart disease. It’s a deeply personal political album that combines the experimental side of indie rock with wholly new layers of electronics, beats and samples. Check oiut the video for "Dog with Rabbit in Mouth Unharmed."