Nashville

Bully, “Feels Like”

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If you’ve been searching for a summer ’15 soundtrack, look no further. Nashville-based alt-garage rockers Bully have turned their raw rock ‘n’ roll angst into a debut album that will punch you right through the speakers then let you cry on its flannel-clad shoulder.

Front-woman Alicia Bognanno sings her guts out to lyrics like "Invisible handcuffs locked on me/ Been praying for my period all week" that give razor-sharp insight into the struggles of a soft-grunge twenty-something.The tracks range from upbeat and optimistic to grungy and thrashing to heavy and cerebrating, fleshing out the album with honesty and resolve.
 
Check out the full debut album "Feels Like" below, and catch Bully at The Stone Fox this Friday. -Caroline Bowman
 
 

Nashville

Heather Bond Premiers Video for “So Long”

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Since moving to Nashville and releasing an EP more than five years ago, Heather Bond has been immersing herself in the music scene. Although she was quickly coined a piano-pop starlet, Bond’s latest release is a testament to her musical maturation, realignment towards lyricism and personal growth.
Bond is blossoming in Music City, and "So Long" is proof.
 
Dripping with sincerity and heartache, the tune crosses genre lines to create a soft, warm sound with the mass appeal of pop music, strong, soul-baring lyrics of folk and country and underlying twang of modern Nashville.
Watch the video for her upcoming album’s title track "So Long" below. – Caroline Bowman
 
 

 

L.A.

Stream: Oriel Poole, “High Fidelity”

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Female singer/songwriter and recent Deli Artist of the Month nominee Oriel Poole has made music for years, her distinct sound summing up for impending debut EP Sunday. “High Fidelity,” released just over a week ago, intrigues enough at first listen. Poole offers us her soulful nasal coo, one that’s grown more distinct across her body of work— like Joanna Newsom dropping into a disco, especially once opening up after the first chorus. It’s apt shuffling music, not meant to blow the roof off the party but keeping an unavoidable groove that guarantees it won’t be ending early either. You can find out where she’ll be next and check out the rest of her tunes on her soundcloud. – Brian J.K. Regan

NYC

Wilsen steps it up with new single ‘Garden’ + plays Mercury on 08.07

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Like a true lover, Wilsen‘s music might not catch your ear at first; but, if you give it a chance, it will court it, charm it and slowly conquer it – the ear, that is. That’s what happened to us in 2013, when the Brooklyn-based English songwriter released her debut album ‘Sirens’ – we named the album NYC Record of the Month and a few month later, after witnessing her live, put her on the cover of our fall/CMJ issue together with her band. Notwithstanding the fact that her music was already great, Wilsen’s new single ‘Garden" is stepping things up another notch, adding to her stellar songwriting talent a tasteful and luscious forward thinking electronic production. See her live at Mercury Lounge on August 7.

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

 

NYC

Tonight! Secret The Deli NYC / Sofar Sounds show

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This upcoming Thursday, July 23, we’ll debut a new collaboration with the NYC branch of that rapidly expanding movement of "secret" DIY shows called Sofar Sounds. Since the show is secret, we won’t be able to tell you who is playing, but we can guarantee you:

1. Great music
2. A good time in a cool space
3. An audience attentive and social at once.

Oh, and if by any chance you are interested in meeting the staff of our NYC blog, somebody from The Deli will be there for sure (just ask the Sofar Sounds organizers and they’ll point you in the right direction). 

To attend Sofar Sounds gigs you can either apply for free here and hope to be picked (due to high demand, Sofar Sound randomly chooses the attendees for each show) or you can jump the queue and guarantee your spot buying tickets – this event is sold out though, so maybe next time! 

P.S. Ok, ok we’ll give you a hint: the female duo in the picture will be one of the performing acts.

The Deli NYC’s staff

San Francisco

DRINKS Releases New Single – Laying Down Rock

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We’re so into Laying Down Rock, the new single from the art rock duo, DRINKS, a new music project consisting of the San Francisco based musician, Tim Presley also known as White Fence and the lovely, Wales native Cate Le Bon. If you like Violent Femmes, the Magnetic Fields, Talking Heads and oddly composed art rock in general, DRINKS’ sense of humor and quirkiness is going to quickly earn your admiration.

Presley and Le Bon switch duties as lead vocalists from one track to another. Their previous single, the title track of their upcoming album, Hermits on Holiday had Le Bon sharing her angelic voice without any presence of Presley’s vocal talents.

The tongue and cheek-ness of Laying Down Rock is only appropriately enjoyed with a slightly sadistic grin drawn across your cheeks, as Tim Presley’s off putting, slightly dark confidence and vocal expression is funny, but also a bit sinister. That said, if you listen closely you’ll hear a glimmer of hope and a moral in Presley’s troubadour-esque declaration that affirms that true love does exist. Take a listen and look out for DRINKS’ upcoming album, Hermits On Holiday, which is due out on August 21st through Birth Records & Heavenly Recordings.

Philadelphia

New Track: “Throw Shade” – CRUISR

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What better way is there to cut through that weekend to weekday turnaround than to throw on something that snaps your mind and body into place! CRUISR recently dropped “Throw Shade,” a track for all the haters out there. Currently set to embark on a run of tour dates, the group will return home on September 12 for an evening at the TLA with Cold Fronts and Made Violent.

NYC

TOONS ask their “tough” questions live at Palisades on 08.04

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TOONS is at times a surprising wordsmith stoner and at times a broody, crashing-on-the-couch (“just for a few days”) and hitting-on-all-your-friends stoner. They have some important questions to ask: “I wonder how, where did all these cows comes from? And I wonder cow, where did all this bread come from? And I wonder bread…”, ambitions: “I’m gonna look at you get naked, I brought all these dollars for your panties tonight”, and a haunted past: “God left me on a garbage can, now I’m right back here again…all my friends they don’t like me and they aint gonna watch me change." On their latest (self titled) album, the attitude is all fun and Beastie Boys while the vocal sensibility calls up Bob Dylan and instrumentation goes garage jam all the way. Even when these songs glimpse into self-pitying disaster you get the feeling it’s all a punch line and you’re actually stuck in a Kevin Smith movie. Check out this quick but great video of ‘Bazooka Joe’ and see them at Palisades on August 4th. – Leora Mandel 

Philadelphia

Escape the Dog Days of Summer w/Three Man Cannon at Bourbon & Branch July 20

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Tonight at Bourbon & Branch, let Three Man Cannon help you escape the dog days of summer! Grab a cold one, and revitalize with the pretty melodies and thought-provoking lyrics from Scranton transplants turned vital local music community contributors. They’ll be accompanied by the stirring indie-folk harmonies of Rosu Lup. Kicking off the evening will be the folk-pop/rock stylings of Mansfield, Connecticut’s Hanging Hills. Bourbon & Branch, 705 N. 2nd St., $10, 21+ – H.M. Kauffman

NYC

Cricket Tell The Weather brings blue grass to the east coast this August

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Cricket Tell The Weather is a fiddle-swelling, banjo-plucking, story-relating, undeniably Americana vision. The NYC quintet includes fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, upright bass, and a rotating cast of singers with varying tones. Their self-titled debut album at times swings into full on bluegrass territory but isn’t married to tradition—some songs dare to stick an arm or two out the window. The switching off of singers/songwriters helps to keep the record diverse—one moment you’re out contra dancing between golden bales of hay and the next you’re staring up at the Brooklyn Bridge, feeling ambushed and wondering aloud about the stars in their absence. The band will take this sound on an east coast tour this August, kicking things off with a performance at Rockwood Music Hall on August 14. – Leora Mandel

Philadelphia

New Track: “Stop” – Radiator Hospital

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Radiator Hospital has a new acoustic single, titled "Stop," that ends way sooner than we want it to. The track can be found on Visiting Waters #1, the first release from Apollonian Sound’s charity single series. You can stream and purchase it below, and all proceeds from the album will be donated to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, which "works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence."