With her soft and silvery voice, mellow-yet-passionate compositions, and poetic and intimate lyrics, New York-by-way-of-LA singer-songwriter DYLLAN has the potential to conquer many hearts. Her latest single “Moments Like These,” an emotionally complex reminiscence of a love gone wrong, was released in March of 2015 along with this simple music video, and shows a noteworthy maturation compared to earlier repertoire. DYLLAN has released two EPs thus far, her debut “Acclimating,” out in 2010, and the follow-up, “Anything But Scared,” from the following year. While living in Paris, she also collaborated with French electronic artist Thylacine on a track entitled “Distance,” which became the single of the week on iTunes in France. While she currently has no upcoming shows planned, DYLLAN is set to release several new singles over the course of 2015, so be sure to keep an eye out. – Patrick Wolff

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We’ll say it folks. Our feeling is that in the NYC scene these days too many indie bands are playing it either too safe, or too… unsafe? There’s just so much garage rock and ’90s revival (on one hand) and insane/unstructured noise (on the other) anybody can deal with. It’s time to mix things up a little! Brooklyn’s Show Me the Body is a rare example of a band that’s successfully exploring new sonic avenues without losing sight of song structure. Their sound marries the darkest trip hop a la’ Tricky with post punk, noise rock and sludge metal impulses. We dug their ‘One Train‘ single from last year, and find the more recent one entitled ‘Space Faithful’ (streaming) as compelling. If you are brave enough to experience this noisy trio live, don’t miss their upcoming show at Palisades on July 10.

Active since 2011, Boston’s The Life Electric play rather aggressive but always melodic rock’n’roll, with psych and disco influences. Their personal guitar sound is crafted through carefully chosen stompboxes, so we decided to ask them a few questions about their gear and creative process – check out the interview on Delicious Audio.

Of all the 30+ bands that played our 2015 NYC B.E.A.F. (Best of Emerging Artists Fest), garage rockers Big Huge had certainly one of the most entertaining live shows. Their colorful t-shirts (or lack o thereof) matched the musicians’ personalities, definitely not shy nor subtle. You can clearly hear this in their brand new single "Late at Nite," a gritty uptempo number that blends garage rock and ’60s pop (including a touch of early Beatles, dare we say!) with super fun results. Whatch out for an upcoming EP featuring this song later in the summer.

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

Summer is back in NYC, and, with it, our favorite series of outdoors indie film projections, combined with live music by emerging artists: Rooftop Films. On July 2nd, a live performance of Brooklyn (via Portland) singer-songwriter Tica Douglas will preceed a program of documentary shorts at the Trilok Fusion Center for the Arts (on 143 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn). Douglas is an accomplished and prolific songwriter who’s been releasing records since 2011. Her latest, beautiful full length, "Joey," was released in early 2015 and erneastly dwells in meditations related to gender identity, through mellow and thoughtful electric ballads that highlight her versatile soprano and original melodies. Check out single ‘I didn’t,’ streaming below.

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

Hailing quite appropriately from the US home of electronic music (Chicago), The Fantastic Plastics is an electronic trio comprised of Tyson, Miranda and Dylan Plastic. They recently moved to NYC to foster their musical ‘de-evolution’ (as in: picking up the sound genius Ohio post punk band Devo left off after their early records, around 1982). The band isn’t afraid to admit that influence: they actually often perform as a Devo cover act, in costumes inspired to that band’s dumb futurism, and their upcoming record, scheduled for a September release, will be called ‘Devolver.’ Their original material preserves the sonics and fun attitude of Devo’s early, groundbreaking albums, with references to working like machines and human obsolescence, like in the new single we are premiering here, entitled ‘We Are Obsolete.’ Check out also the other preview single from the upcoming album, NoNoGoGo.

You may have been already exposed to Brooklyn based sisters Asy and Chloe Saavedra through the adorable pop band they led in the aughts, called Smoosh – the project started when Chloe was eight years old! Now fully grown women, but still remarkably young notwithstanding their decennial experience in the band business,  the Saavandras retired the former moniker in favor of more aggressive sounding Chaos Chaos. Under the new moniker they released two six songs EPs since 2012 . This is a more mature sounding project that blends orchestral, rock and electronic elements, and also showcases impressive dual vocals reminiscent of Deli NYC all time favorites Lucius. We are digging latest single ‘Love,’ with its noisy edge and electronic texture, check out the video below. Chaos Chaos will be playing The Mercury Lounge on July 13.

Back in 2012, Brooklyn folk-rock band Mail the Horse released the album “Great Kills,” which featured the slow-burning, piano-laden single “Dirty Blood.” Tonight at The Knitting Factory, the five-piece will release a new full-length, “Planet Gates.” Comprising such tracks as “Wasted Sex” and “Holy Motel Magic” (streaming below), the former a bluesy rollick reminiscent of The Rolling Stones’ “Moonlight Mile” and the latter a keys-spiked rocker, the new release appears lovingly referential and purely thrilling. Mail the Horse will play at The Knitting Factory tonight (6.24). Deli favorite Brooklyn dwellers Rivergazer and Yellowbirds’ Sam Cohen will perform, too. – Zach Weg

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

Based in Brooklyn, Exiles is a self-proclaimed lo-fi dream-gaze, indie surf pop quintet. Founded in late 2013 as the recording project of Moire Echo and Matt Sklar, the band expanded to a five-piece in 2014 and began working on their first recordings. “Only Summer,” the band’s aptly titled debut EP released in May of 2014, is a collection of atmospheric dream pop gems that’s a perfect soundtrack to the lazy summer days ahead. Their latest release is a single entitled ‘Kill the Lights‘ released in January of 2015 and featuring remixes of the song by both British electronic band Futurecop! and Utah-based synthpop duo New Shack. The band’s followup EP is currently in the works, and you can catch them live on June 24th at the Cake Shop, along with fellow New York bands Loosie, and Modern Merchant. – Patrick Wolf

NYC songstress Alex Winston has the rare ability to turn our day around through… pop – ah, the healing power of music! Fresh evidence suggests that her new single ‘The Day I Died’ (streaming) has this therapeutical power – we just tried it ourselves, it worked. The song is the titletrack of her brand new three song EP, which is an appetizer for an upcoming full album scheduled for a November 10 release. If you are hungry for more, don’t miss her upcoming live show at Mercury Lounge on July 7th, with (also excellen Brooklyn pop/rockers Mainland.

Legendary NYC drummer Skoota Warner has played with everyone from Santana to Biz Markee, and “Vignettes” is his second solo album. It features DJ Logic, Hot Tuna, and, in the new single “Still In Love,” the famous freestyle juggernaut C-Rayz Walz. The drumbeat is dusty and raw, the kind any MC would love to slay, and C-Rayz crafts an intimate narrative crammed with brilliant lines like, “Why would I listen to lies. . .when you are the truth that I envision?” The album speaks to Warner’s eclectic tastes and styles. This video will speak to your heart. – BrokeMC

A mountainous piece of shrill piano presses, thick string plucks, and violins that skitter only to soar… “Go” by Gracie and Rachel is simply beautiful. Apparently a song off a forthcoming album of the same name by the Berkeley-raised, Brooklyn-based duo, “Go” awes in its ability to make technical mastery into something moving and potentially transcendent. “It’s okay, it’s okay/To let your heart race, heart race,” goes a silky-voiced lyric, wondrous assurance sliding through. Gracie and Rachel will open for Porcelain Raft this Thursday (6.25) at TT The Bear’s Place Inc. in Cambridge, Massachussetts and will perform at Rockwood Music Hall on Monday, 6.29. In the meantime, listen to “Go,” and watch its ponderous black-and-white music video, below.

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