On March 6, 2017, Kississippi visited the Audiotree Live studio to record a session that was just released. Amid playing a set featuring a solid sampling of songs from We Have No Future, We’re All Doomed, the band discusses a variety of topics including Brandon Flowers, what’s in their current music rotation, and influential music from their youth. On the influential front, they also delve into their relationship with Slingshot Dakota and how they’re recent tour together was impacted by a hurricane. Kississippi will be performing a solo set at Trash House on Friday, April 7 with Prince Daddy & The Hyena, Dollar Signs, and Teenage Halloween.
Nashville
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Daddy Issues Releases Single Ahead of New Album “Deep Dream”
Daddy Issues is back with a bang, releasing a fiery single, “In Your Head,” from their upcoming album, Deep Dream. The tune chronicles the mess of emotion left behind after a breakup, marrying rage and melancholy in a way that brings 90s alt rock and grunge classics like Bikini Kill or Nirvana to mind. Sonically, this is the heaviest work the trio has ever made. The guitar tone is full bodied, with enough fuzz to make the highs crackle while the bass thunderously fills in the low end. The production is high quality, moving in the opposite direction of their previously lo-fi/diy style and bringing new clarity to the fuzzy, grunge revival they execute so well. This is, without a doubt, the Nashville alt rock band to watch in 2017.
–Andrew Strader
NYC
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Best New England Emerging Artists 2017: The Deli’s Poll Results
Dear Deli Readers,
We have finally reached the end of the road for The Deli’s Best Emerging New England Artists Poll. As usual, it’s been a lengthy, exhausting, painstaking journey through an abundance of numbers, band names, and some seriously rad tunes. Now, before we get to our list of this year’s Top Performers, we would like to thank our wonderful, knowledgeable jury of local music experts/enthusiasts (which you can view below), dedicated Deli writers and all those who took the time to check out our nominees and cast their votes. You’re the best, and we wouldn’t be able to do this without you!
1. Crumb is an outfit that takes the pleasantly dissonant atmosphere of smooth jazz and molds it into psych rock masterpieces. Their songs glide along steady pace, revealing highly skilled instrumentation without abandoning the groove. There are long stretches of jam that prove remiscent of classic indie rockers like Lotus Plaza, but there are moments of unbridled wierdness and pure chaos, sprinkled in to add some spice to the psychedelic sonic brew. Crumb is the new must listen for psych fans in New England.
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2. XR Tabs is a band to which it’s nearly impossible to assign a definitive genre. Their work contains elements of experimental noise rock, post-punk, indie rock, and electronica. They traverse unclaimed musical territory almost as a rule, making listening a wholly unexpected experience.
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3. Pompo is an alt rock band that blends elements of funk and blues to create a hybrid, modern alternative rock sound. With lengthy, funk jams that serve as an instant reminder of early Red Hot Chili Peppers, they’ve honed a classic sound and made it their own.
4. Frank Viele
5. Honeysuckle
7. Ripe
8. oldsoul
10. Wolfmen of Mars
11. Kal Marks
12. The Right Offs
13. Choke Up
14. Ryxno
15. Tigerman WOAH
16. Seth Adam
17. Math the Band
18. The Dead L.A.
19 Fucko
20. Rick Rude https://rickrude1.bandcamp.com/
22. Chaser Eight
23. Squeeze Trigger
24. Julia Russo
25. Fightsong
26. Polluter
27. Mokita
29. Atlas Lab
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See you next year, Best of New England Poll!
The Folks at The Deli
Toronto
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COPPER CROWN – BOVINE FEST #2 SUNDAY!
Copper Crown are bringing a unique alt-punk-ska sound to the Toronto scene. They released their debut self titled EP last year. All of the band members come from different music backgrounds with several influences so it’s hard and frowned upon to label Copper Crown under one genre. Basically the band sounds like classic California ska bands of the 90’s with Dido on vocals. They will be playing at Bovine Fest #2 at Bovine Sex Club on March 26th. – Kris Gies
NYC
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Industrial act Pharmakon announces new release, plays BK Bazaar 04.14
Most people (not just musicians) come to the Big Apple full of dreams, to leave it within a few years, when its frantic pace, crazy costs, and tight spaces have become unbearable. Pharmakon, the experimental, insane sounding industrial project of producer Margaret Chardiet, is the product of a human being who’s never given up to NYC: that’s where she was born and raised, currently calling Far Rockaway, Queens, home. Listening to her new track "Transmission" (streaming), from upcoming new album "Contact," make us wonder whether the track’s sound represents the sublimination of a psyche brought to the edge of insanity by a city that notoriously provides shrinks with lots of work. Is this what people escape from, when they leave NYC? Is Transmission the big apple’s own sonic version of Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream? We’ll have a chance to experience, and exorcize, its primal desperation live, at Brooklyn Bazaar, on April 14th.
San Francisco
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The Seshen Releases New Music Video – Colors Collide
The Seshen has released a stunning new music video entitled, Colors Collide. We’re always excited to hear new music from them!!
San Francisco Bay Area-based six-piece The Seshen release the second single, Colors Collide, from their recent album ‘Flames & Figures’ on 10th March via Tru Thoughts. Just in time for their ‘Flames & Figures’ Europe Tour (please see overleaf for dates), The Seshen’s new single relays the intrapersonal journey of “Colors Collide”, and a reimagined remix from LA duo Starkiller (the production outfit of C.E. Garcia & Alfredo E. Fratti, members of Adrian Younge’s Venice Dawn).
Philadelphia
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New The Spirit of the Beehive LP Available for Streaming
The Spirit of the Beehive just premiered its long-awaited LP Pleasure Suck, which officially comes on March 24 via Tiny Engines, but you can stream it now over at Stereogum. The album shifts unpredictably from warm melodies to wafting, textured soundscapes that morph into chaotic, dense walls of noise, and back again without notice, as a dreary, dark cloud hangs over the disenchanted, dual guy-gal lead vocals. It’s a mind-warping collection of tracks that yearn for you to dig deeper. The band is currently on an extensive U.S. tour that will wrap up with a hometown release show on Friday, March 28 at Everybody Hits.
Portland
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Daydream Machine drop new album, tour with Souvenir Driver
We’ve been asking for new music from shoegazy neo-psych post-punk outfit Daydream Machine for a little while now and after being teased with "Modern Prophecy" back in January, The Show Must Not Go On is finally here.
It technically dropped earlier this month with a video for the album’s first track "You Know Who" to go along with it, and a listening party running through the album a few days ago on St. Patrick’s Day. Tonight is when the big celebration takes place, since it’s the album release show along with the kickoff of their tour with Souvenir Driver.
Daydream Machine aren’t the only ones with new tunes, since Souvenir Driver have been hard working in the studio as well. They debuted their new emotive dream pop track "Dive" earlier in March, the first single shared from their upcoming self-titled fourth release, due out April 14. Catch more peeks into what the LP will sound like tonight at the tour kickoff, or at any of their stops while on the road.
TOUR DATES
03/21 – Mississippi Studios – Portland, OR
03/24 – The Sound Lounge – Grants Pass, OR
03/25 – Starlite – Sacremento, CA
03/26 – Elbo Room – San Francisco, CA
03/27 – Continental Room – Fullerton, CA
03/29 – Harvard & Stone – Los Angeles, CA
03/30 – The Pour House – Oceanside, CA
03/31 – Til-Two Club – San Diego, CA
Philadelphia
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New Track: “I’m a Tired Man (But I Won’t Cry About It)” – Poor Devils
Idaho, the forthcoming EP from Poor Devils, will be released on April 7. However, “I’m a Tired Man (But I Won’t Cry About It)” immediately smacks as a quaking combination of bass and guitar shake out the cobwebs. Tunneling vocals temporarily shift the onus, but the brooding bombardment of a surf-psych hybrid quickly takes back the controls. You can catch the band’s release show that same evening at J.R.’s with Ciera Fazio and Lyzzi Moore.
Philadelphia
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Debut Hail the Peasant EP Available for Streaming & Download
Hail the Peasant just dropped his debut self-titled EP, which is available for streaming and free download below. Its bare-bones, acoustic-strumming, musical backdrop positions the guttural, yearning vocals and oddball lyricism in a place to shine. With a strong, earnest take, one rides along on the passenger side of these whole-hearted Americana songs.
NYC
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Overlake shares single from sophomore LP, plays release show at Mercury Lounge
Readying their follow-up release to 2014 debut record “Sighs,” Overlake share “Winter Is Why” (streaming below) from sophomore album “Fall” due out May 12th via Bar/None Records. The track emerges via a guitar figure delivered with orchestral sensibility, creating an immediate mood of majestic grandeur. Forceful power trio drumming and counterpoint descending bass tones further punctuate unexpected rhythmic accents underneath this rising melody. Settling in to calmer patterns, dreamy vocals describe how the “summer sun hangs around” and “windswept cones on the sand” suggest the winter season. This over five minute long track successfully blends the quieter passages of gazey icons My Bloody Valentine (think “Come In Alone”) with that band’s more explosive and pitch-bendy moments. While still finalizing dates for an April tour, the band has scheduled a record release show at Mercury Lounge on May 12th with support from local favorites Dead Stars and Heaven. – Dave Cromwell
Philadelphia
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Krust Toons: “This Isn’t Ska…” by Tedd Hazard
Krust Toons: "This Isn’t Ska…" by Tedd Hazard – please feel free to drop him a line at teddandthehazards@gmail.com if you dig or have any funny ideas. You can also check out more of his illustrations and animation shorts HERE.