Brooklyn is perceived as the home of indie, psych and garage artists, but the community of musicians inspired by the roots of American music is large, and probably bound to expand in the years to come. Noble Kids, whose four-song EP “Kingdom,” released in November of 2013, is deeply rooted in lyrical imagery and compositional intricacy. The record is quite an interesting collection and manages to accomplish much in just four tracks. While opener “Pine” emplyoys dynamic variations on an overall droney atmosphere, “James Gabriel” (streaming) and “Disregard” offer up the simple, crooning heartbreak of true folk songs. All in all, the five members, which recently expanded from the original duo, have come together to create something quite unique, and we are curious to see what else they have coming. Word on the street is they are recording their first full-length as we speak – keep an ear out. – Jillian Dooley

This band submitted their music for coverage here.

We just stumbled upon this great rock’n’roller entitled "My Baby’s a Baby" by NYC’s Simon Doom, a band we don’t know much about, apart from the fact that they played Glasslands on November 30 with Fort Lean, and that they have a singer with an incredible voice and attitude. Check them out.

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

For a band that just came out of high school, Brooklyn’s Petalwar have an incredible potential. They just released their “Purple Faced Winter” split single, and it’s got the emotional backing and tonal versatility of a band in their mid-twenties. The single is apparently PetalWar’s first release as a quartet, having started, and released their S/T EP as just a duo: Alex Ruiz on guitar/vocals, and Abbie Jones on drums. Lena Mandolina and Esme Ashley White joined later on lead guitar and bass, respectively, only adding to what was already a tremendous sound. Not necessarily tremendous in decibel-level (though they can get loud), but tremendous in weight and depth. They play (and play well) a grunge-infused indie rock that teeters between atonal uneasiness at certain times, breaking into roaring upheavals at others, often coupled with a surprising soothing solemnity. – JP Basileo

In case you hadn’t realized this yet, here at The Deli NYC we often reward crazyness, and The Pluto Moons are kinda crazy (you must have gathered that from the picture). Also, to most musicians’ horror, we like genre categorization, but, in truth, we love to be challenged in that department by bands that, like The Pluto Moons, are hard to pigeonhole. We won’t even try to describe these guys’ music, just put together all the pieces yourself, theres a bunch of them in this single we are premiering below, entitled "Eyez," an excerpt from the upcoming "Espooky" EP, to be released in January. Want to hear more? Check out last year’s full length "Mannequin Legs" here, and don’t miss their EP release party at Cameo on January 10. – Photo by Zach Sokol

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

With a unique band name and their hardcore leather ensemble in tow, Beast Patrol has just about everybody fooled. The NYC band is described as a psychedelic-indie rock band at best, but we at the Deli can’t help to fall in love with their dream pop undertones. The soft delicate voice of lead singer Vanessa Bley captured Rolling Stone’s attention in 2013 (The Deli was about a year ahead)and now the band has all of NYC’s rock enthusiasts under their spell as well since the band’s inception in 2012. The band has released the Unarm Yourself EP earlier in June and will be playing one of Brooklyn’s Glasslands final shows on December 7 before the venue closes their doors by year’s end for good. It will also be the band’s last live appearance of the year. – Robert Frezza

Destination Moon, a curated concert series and collective, started out as a couple of house shows based in Crown Heights. Since then their events have taken more of a cosmic bent, in more ways than one. Most of their shows are solar powered and all of them incorporate both music and visual art. The collective’s next event, SCREEN/SOUNDS, takes place this Friday (12/5) at new venue Lot 45, and is billed as "multi-disciplinary" and featuring collaborations between musicians and film-makers. The night begins with shorts performed with original, live scores by Carson Moody (of Tigue) & Anthony Vine, and Star Rover followed by sets from local avant rockers Modern Rivals and lounge popper Legs (a band we kind of missed so far, check out their video below), both awash in the projections of Jesse Mann. Recommended for all A/V kids who like to dance. – Emilio Herce

From Japan-to-Brooklyn, girl rock band Hard Nips are not only known for their catchy, anthemic party rock, but also for their quirky live performances that will keep you coming back for more.  They recently released a new EP titled ‘Uncommon Animal’ which packs some heavy riffage but is also fun and light hearted, just like them.  They’ve been playing music since 2009, after they all had just met and decided to form a band, picking up their respective instruments for the very first time – now that’s punk attitude! They also have a kick-ass website might we add. 

See them live at Glasslands on 12.06 and read Michael Haskoor interview with Hard Nips.

Brooklyn rockers Blue & Gold deliver an impressive first single in advance of their debut album with the heavy mid tempo “In My Head.” Combining driving guitars with soulful, bluesy vocals, their sound has the instant appeal of an updated version of blues rock. Solid thunderclap drums and a precise distorted bass lock the track down while well-placed power chords and rippin’ lead guitar solos point to the era when Leslie West’s band Mountain triggered the evolution of the electrified blues-rock hybrid. On the second chorus, girl/boy tandem vocals give way to alternating single lines: “Ain’t got no time” becomes the throw-down vocal hook statement, when “I want you” is followed by “why don’t you want me too?” The band will celebrate the release of their album at Mercury Lounge on January 10. – Dave Cromwell

Not exactly an emerging band (the project has been around in a shape or another since 2002 and has already enjoyed some degree of popularity) The Blow‘s music is nonetheless still rather overlooked, and deserves the attention of all those who (like us) are in love with the delicately edgy electro-pop experimentations of bands it anticipated (and probably influenced) like St. Vincent and Glasser. Initially the solo home recording project of Olympia, Washington based songwriter Khaela Maricich, the act became permanently a duo in 2004, when Jona Bechtolt (now of YACHT) injected his electronic production into its sound; the collaboration peaked with the band’s breakout 2007 album "Paper Television." After Bechtolt’s departure, Melissa Dyne joined in, bringing her background in installation, sound, and conceptual art into the band’s live show. This formation, which relocated to Brooklyn in 2008, has finally given us its first album in 2013, entitled "The Blow". The band’s live show is now half rock concert, half art installation, with Dyne often performing from a location off stage. Don’t miss the opportunity to see them live at Glasslands on December 5.

A staple of the avant-pop Brooklyn scene, Monogold has been around long enough to have witnessed the "MySpace days," and in a showcase of true anti-comformism they haven’t abandoned that profile yet. The trio just released their third record, a six tracks EP entitled "This Bloom," which develops their shimmering and textured psychedelia in a more gentle and transparent direction. The band announced that this will be the first record in a series of three. Check out single "Under Daisies" below and don’t miss them live – the band can deliver on stage.

The NYC scene’s rediscovery of the music of the 90’s isn’t limited to the gutar based sound of grunge and slacker rock. With their first three singles, released in quick succession in the last three month, electronic trio Bottoms tap into the (mostly) European sound of industrial dance, a dark wave born from the marriage of the minimalistic production of Acid House and the goth tendencies that "plague" the home country of anything angular (Germany), but also, kind of unexpectedly, sunny European countries like Italy. The NYC band, comprised (as they say) of "two shitty drag queens, a 303 and a drummer," makes that language their own, by introducing grotesque vocals that, together with the obsessive repetition of their beats and the noisy nature of their arrangements, push their music to extreme levels of paradox and alienation. Their sound is charged with what they call "gender problemizing" content, also recurrent in the sexually provoking cyberpunk imagery. Check out their latest single HIV (released on World AIDS day), from the upcoming debut "Goodbye EP," out on January 20. You can catch them live at Baby’s All Right on December 14. 

"Desert" is a word that lately has been visiting our blog more often than usual. The aesthetics of "desert rock" are kind of vague, but in most cases refer to rather slow burning rock music with epic overtones and psychedeliic influences, often featuring also roots music and Morriconian elements (our favorite band in this niche was Thin White Rope). Brooklyn trio Desert Stars – whose latest single "Hamster Wheel" recently got some love from NME – fits this description quite well, although they relinquish the typical tension of the genre in favor of a dreamier and more harmonious approach, as if the desert was inhabited by angels rather than bandits. Unless, of course, it’s all just a heat induced hallucination… Find it out for yourself tomorrow night (12.02), when the band plays Glasslands.

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