We’d like to invite all the NYC scene lovers to join The Deli’s staff at the Manhattan Inn in Greenpoint tonight (June 8th), for Hypnocraft‘s first appointment with a new monthly music residency called "At the Inn" (music starts at 8.30pm)

There – among other things – you’ll be able to:

1. Read the new issue of The Deli (it’s the "best of NYC 2015" one!)
2. Listen to live music by four great (mostly) local artists.

Here are our favorite songs by the performing artists:

Last night at Baby’s All Right we stumbled upon Brooklyn’s trio The Midnight Hollow, and were impressed by their performance. Active since the beginning of the decade, the band plays moody rock with vibes reminiscent of some rather psychedelic acts from the 80’s new wave. Their vaguely epic, fully arranged songs and lead vocalist (and songwriter) Spencer Draeger’s intimidating tenor bring to mind Echo and the Bunnymen’s peak records from the mid 80s. They recently released a new EP entitled ‘For The People Inside,’ featuring singe "Forward" (streaming below). You can see them next at Union Pool on June 11.

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

Today marks a year since New Paltz-rooted, New York City-based band What Moon Things released their self-titled debut album, a rapturously dark eight-song thunderstorm of guitar streaks, drum bangs, and atmospheric shrieks. On tracks such as the heavy and plodding, but also gently arpeggiated ‘Staring at the Radio’ (streaming below) or the meditative and penetrating ‘Vampir,’ the group headed by early-twenties multi-instrumentalists Jake Harms and John Morisi recalled Nirvana’s pained ’90s punk and Big Troubles’ reflective shoegaze, while sounding out their own nightmare of death sponge – as they label the genre they play. Now, the group prepares for the release of their sophomore record and has a few upcoming shows: you can see them next at Williamsburg’s Cameo Gallery on 6.14. – Zach Weg

Stop goofing around. You may know BRNDA as that friendly post-punk quartet that likes blowing up balloons, singing to apple queens and carefree manatees, and parrot fronted metal, but they can totally beat you up (ok, or give you a stern talking to). These self-proclaimed snack core rockers are “a serious band from Washington DC”. If you don’t believe me, listen to their latest single “Serious Band”, in which they make this themesong-like claim maybe 20 times. If you’re wondering, why so serious? Well they also claim to be quite angry! Why so angry? They yell out “Alex Kozen!” (the group’s vocalist/guitarist) a few times. We’re not exactly sure what that guy did, but theoretically there are plenty of reasons to be angry at any given moment in the life of an ethically aware human being. Ease up, these buds have been on a super tour with Teen Mom but they’ll be back to play a home show at Above The Bayou on 6/15 with Pupppy, O-Face, and Swings.

-Leora Mandel

Christoph Hochheim has an intimate history with New York’s shoegaze/dreampop scene, as a past member of the now-defunct shoegaze/chiptune The Depreciation Guild and a current member of The Pains of Being Pure At Heart along with Anton Hochheim.

However, the brothers have also been working as Ablebody, a Los Angeles passion project that first featured remixes and covers, but later grew to self-release High Home, a three-song instrumental EP with ethereal cries, bent-out guitars, and dying electronics. 2013’s All My Everybody EP developed with 80’s soft and clipping synth vibes. Slower and more sensual, the five songs now had Christoph’s warm and reassuring in front of the mix, even as the album dealt with more serious feels per an interview with BYT. Ablebody’s latest release dates back to last year, but does a complete 360-reverse-moonwalk to the dancey indie pop "After Hours" before getting rugged with fuzzy B-side "Lose Your Head".

Ablebody will play their first set since early January this Friday for Young Lover’s fifth night of residency along with Sacramento’s glazed out indie pop quintet Soft Science and the jangle-psych group Deep Fields. Listen below to their 2014 7" split "Ablebody". – Ryan Mo, photo credit Nick Marshall

Brooklyn’s band of folk innovators Streets of Laredo (whose core members are from New Zealand) seems to be growing larger every year – now a septet, they started out as a trio, and it was five of them when we booked them for our 2013 NYC B.E.A.F. They just released this new dreamy (and admittedly not very folky) single entitled "Diamonds," and took the opportunity to announce that they’ll be playing Governors’ Ball in a few days (Sunday June 7). Knowing how great these guys are live, that’s a show you don’t want to miss.