New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
Hidden Hospitals recently released a new video for their song "Trilogy" in conjunction with Jericho Guitars. The song comes from their 2015 debut full-length album Surface Tension. The band is currently in the studio recording new music.
You can catch Hidden Hospitals at The Burlington on January 23rd with Man Eating Tiger and Even Thieves.
In celebration of her new album "Cocksure," out October 30 on Don Giovanni Records, in the spring Laura Stevenson will kick off a national tour featuring a show at the Mercury Lounge on April 2nd. Recorded mostly live, the LP represents a change for the Long Island born, Brooklyn based songwriter, resulting in her most raw and spontaneous material to date. Check out the recent video for single "Torch Song," below.
"It Calls On Me" (streaming below), the title track off New Hampshire-based singer/songwriter Doug Tuttle’s forthcoming sophomore album, is an ominous yet ultimately sweet portrait of a ponderous mind. Soundling like a mix of The War On Drugs and Simon & Garfunkel, the guitar-plained song has the smooth-voiced Tuttle gazing up at the unknown while dealing with the reality before him. While it may be about "panic attacks and the feeling of being at the mercy of some unexplainable otherworldy force," as Tuttle explains in a Noisey interview, it is surprisingly charming and ultimately compassionate. Ahead of the release date of ‘It Calls On Me’ on 2/19, Doug Tuttle plays at Lillypad on 2/27 and Artspace on 2/28. – Zach Weg
2001, the new project by Benjamin Lazar Davis and Joan Wasser (of Joan as a Policewoman), just released this video for single "Overloaded" starring comedian Fred Armisen. The video follows Armisen’s exploits as he seeks to break the monotony of waiting for his car fixed in Joan and Benjamin’s auto garage.
Reaches (aka Justin Randel) has released the video for his single "White Birch of the Baltic". The track comes from his forthcoming album I Am Alive and Well (We Be Friends Records, Feb. 19th).
Thanks to all the artists who submitted their music to be considered for The Deli’s Best of DC Area Year End Poll for Emerging Artists. It was a tight contest and rich with musical talent.
After tallying our editors’ ratings for the Open Submissions stage, it’s time to release the results. Please note that, to avoid conflicts, no local editor was allowed to vote for bands in their own scene.
Total submissions from the DC Area: 24
Jurors: Dan (The Deli New England), Ryan (The Deli LA), Paolo De Gregorio (The Deli NYC).
Acts advancing to our Readers/Fans Poll:
The Walking Sticks – Indietronica/Synthpop
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X (Ten) – Indie Hip Hop
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Sojourne – Alt-Soul
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Honorable Mentions:
Jackie and The Treehorns, Atoka Chase, Night Kitchen, Harness Flux, Pete Curry
WHAT’S NEXT: These results end the first phase of the poll. We will soon unveil the artists nominated by our local jurors, and then let our readers and our writers influence the poll with their vote.
Keep creating, keep supporting, and stay tuned for your chance to vote!
—The Deli DC Area Staff <3
Punk trio Telepathic (featuring Sarah Everton and Rob Garcia previously of Bleeding Rainbow) are self-releasing on January 18 their latest album, Time Release, on cassette. However, those in need of an early taste can now stream it below. Splitting vocal duties, the sound is parts eerily atmospheric as it is fuzzy aesthetic, which gets in one’s head and then stomps downhill, twisting melody and aggression. Telepathic plays a co-release show on Friday, January 22 with Honey Radar at Johnny Brenda’s. (Photo by Dominique Montgomery)
Last year, Providence-based singer/songwriter Krista Baroni released ‘The Alabaster Girl,’ an album that quietly revels in a kind of sleepy beauty. Comprised of such guitar-plucked tracks as "I’m Not Myself Today" and "Joanna," the folk-based effort transports the listener as a children;s book would while impressively portraying the hardships of adulthood. The former song, for example, depicts an emotionally wounded soul striving for serenity amidst the noise of modern life, soft guitars cooing the listener to calm. Krista Baroni plays at AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island on Thursday (1/14). – Zach Weg
The San Francisco based band, Still Flying has released a new song from their fourth upcoming album, Perfect Future. The new album is entitled Love Both Sides!
Still Flyin‘s Sean Rawls had a child at the end of 2012, a few months after their most recent album (On A Bedroom Wall) was released, which spelled a day job and no more world tours. In his words, "My identity as ‘dude in a band’ turned into ‘new dad who used to be in a band.’" Once an endless tinkerer who crafted songs constantly, he suddenly found himself with little time for any of that. He ended up having to carve out songwriting time between his son’s naps, and one of these short bursts of songwriting resulted in three of Perfect Future’s tracks ("Get Out of My Car", "Navarone" and "Tea Leaves").
The band ended up recording in much the same way — all of the basic tracks were bashed out in three days of recording, which was much quicker than they were used to. Keeping with the general theme, the record was mixed very quickly by Phil Manley (Trans Am), and the result is raw, immediate, unedited and undeniably fun!
After winning an Emmy for her song "Everyday," which appeared on The Simpsons, Slingshot Dakota‘s Carly Comando quit her job, along with husband/bandmate Tom Patterson, to concentrate on their music project. The fruits of their decision can be found on the duo’s new album, Break, which will be available on March 11 via Topshelf Records. You can check out their new synth-heavy track, "Paycheck," that premiered earlier today at The A.V. Club. It’s the lead single off the forthcoming record.
If danceable but clever electronica is your kind of thing, on the night of January 30th you should go to Palisades. The night will see four Brooklyn electronic producers perform on stage, with an added visual component courtesy of Frottage Industry. The most buzzworthy names on the bill are UMFANG (pictured) and Negative Gemini. The former is the project of Bronx born producer Emma Olson, whose output ranges from underground techno to less beat-driven, experimental tracks like the latest single "Pills" (streaming). Olson also founded Discwoman, an organization focused on promoting female-identified talent in electronic music.
Negative Gemini, the brainchild of Lindsey French, is also a one woman project – we covered her in this blog this past October. Lindsey’s debut EP "Real Virtual Unison" unveils more structured and song oriented material, featuring dream pop and droney new wave elements. Check out her recent single "You Never Knew," streaming below.
On the bill also Physical Therapy and Doss.
What the latest from Onwego lacks in grit, it makes up in sheer cool smooooth. It’s slacker psych, no two ways about it, but it’s slacker psych that went through the effort to comb its hair and put a shirt on. With its guitar licks that wander but are never lost and an understated vocal delivery, this is music for the end of the party when it’s just you and a couple stragglers having a sloppy heart-to-heart on the front porch couch. 222 is set to release on March 27 but can be streamed right now via Bandcamp. -Austin Phy
