Newborn drone rock Brooklyn quartet Lazy Queen has released two digital singles in 2014, whose expansive sonic reference noisy melodic bands from the late ’80s/early ’90s like My Bloody Valentine and Jesus & Mary Chain. Their more aggressive material lands decidedly in noise rock territory ("Velveteen"), but today we are in the mood for something a little more ethereal, check out "Dust" below, and see these guys at Santos Party House on November 11.

This band submitted their music for coverage here.

All too often NYC’s psychedelic bands tend to be dark and a little contrived. How refreshing then to listen to Prince Rupert’s Drops‘ exhuberant brand of psychedelic revival in their freshly released album ‘Climbing Light’. Alternatively channeling the original psychedelia of the 60s (including occasionally the pastoral psych-folk atmospheres of the very beginnings), the rock dreaminess of the Paysley Underground of the mid ’80s, and even the 90’s upbeat and creative alt psych rock of bands like Flaming Lips and Camper Van Beethoven, the record sounds like an unpretentious tribute to Psychedelia in all its splendor. The album droppedon November 11, the record release show will be at Brooklyn’s Wild Kingdom on December 5th.

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

Archie Pelago is the musical equivalent of a cyborg. Part programmed music, part live instrumentation, the trio is made up of three classically trained musicians, Hirshi (trumpet/DJ), Cosmo D (cello/Ableton) and Kroba (sax/Ableton). The music they create strikes a fine balance between the energy and precision of a DJ set and the dynamism and proficiency of seasoned live instrumentalists. It is meticulous as it is innovative, layering string and saxophone arrangements over programmed drums and synths, and a prime example of what happens when talented musicians take a running leap out of their comfort zone. – Read Emilio Herce interview with Archie Pelago.

In her third album "bury me at makeout creek," Brooklyn songwriter Mitski reveals a dual musical personality and a multi-faceted talent. Opener "texas reznikoff" presents us with what (deceptively) sounds like your regular, acoustic guitar armed singer songwriter, who gently sings about her wishes, her lovers and far away lands. It takes less than a minute and a half for that first impression to get completely subverted by a sudden build up of distorted guitars. The sonic saturation continues in the following track, the noise pop gem "townie," where Mitski sounds like a riot girl of the new millennium, crafting a beautifully tense melody, full of carefree lyrics, over an unrelenting carpet of fuzzy guitars and feedback. Following track "first love / late spring" take us back to the initial sparseness, introducing a very elegant, if not seductive melody, reminiscent of the crooning charmers of the ’50s. A few tracks later, "jobless monday" doubles down on the crooner-pop influences, forging another incredibly beautiful vocal line. The rest of the record keeps dwelling between these recurrent extremes, revealing an artist who relies on her pop sensibility to allow her poetry to shine, while her instinctive, youthful angst leads her to reject anything that’s too conventional or predictable. Many great records emerge from this kind of tension.

Don’t miss the album’s release party tonight at Silent Barn.

Sunday Video: "Townie" – Mitski from Rookie on Vimeo.

Crying‘s debut EP "Get Olde" took us by storm in September, becoming an instant Deli NYC Record of the Month – we were less impressed with the guys in the band, who gave us the typically punk "we’re too clever for you to care" treatment… However, this kind of attitude isn’t preventing them from going places – ah, the power of good music! They are about to release a remastered and extended version of their debut EP "Get Olde," featuring… another EP attached to it, entitled "Second Wind." Also, together with their inseparable, hacked Game Boy, they just embarked on a month long US tour, with welcome-back-home party scheduled for December 15 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

NYC singer VÉRITÉ‘s music is a mash up in a lot of ways, it makes us think of Tove Lo/Banks with the clear, distinct voice of Sara Bareilles. She grew up in a musical home filled with records and fell in love with the writing process at a young age. Most of her music seems ready to go for mainstream pop, excluding the haunting cut “Strange Enough." The song, which is an already underground favorite, depicts the singer in a relationship that constantly changes. Her EP, Echo, is already garnering much attention. – Robert Frezza

We often say that for bands to last there needs to be a strong bonds between band mates, and The Echo Friendly is a peculiar example in this regard: a break up didn’t prevent Jake Rabinbach (guitar, vocals) and Shannon Esper (vocals) from keeping making music together, and the result is an album that chronicles this complex relationship, where attraction, musical chemestry and relationship troubles team up to create what we can only imagine being a rather messy situation. These guys should be asked to write the soundtrack for HBO’s TV series "Girls" – wait a minute, that actually happened already! Rarely music is created without struggle, and accepting this as part of the creative process is one of the secrets of creative longevity – and maybe also protracted love and/or friendship. Check out The Echo Friendly’s latest single "Fuck it and Whatever" and see them live at Glasslands on 11.21.

Post-punk is back in full force nowadays, and Brooklyn trio The Black Black – with their muscular, driving, dark, and relentless sound – offer a rather uncompromising version of it.  They released their debut album ‘Boogie Nights’ yesterday (11.11) and in support of it, they’re playing a record release show at Cake Shop tomorrow (11.13).  Money Fire Records label mates Low Fat Getting High (punky-ish as well, but in a more 90s kind of way) will also celebrate the release of their self-titled LP. On he bill also Dead Stars and Seattle’s Iska Dhaaf. Listen to TBB’s new album’s single ‘Until Death Do Us Party’ below.  It’s a bass-driven, energetic, punk rock teleport to the late 1970s when post-punk really exploded. They’re not wildly experimental, but rather straight and to the point. After all, isn’t that how punk rock should be? – Michael Haskoor (@Tweetskoor)

We added these songs to The Deli’s playlist of Best punk rock/slacker rock songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!

We became acquainted with one girl band Idgy Dean (aka Lindsay Sanwald) a few years ago, when she played our NYC B.E.A.F. (Best of Emerging Artists Fest) at now defunct venue Public Assembly. We now realize Lindsay doesn’t actually belong here in NYC. Her new single "The Indian Squirrel Dance," from the full length "Ominous Harminous, scheduled for a January release, is an edgy, tribal track drenched in desert rock aesthetics and featuring weird religious chanting – not exactly your typical NYC music features. But it’s the song’s video that erases any doubts regarding the fact that Idgy Dean should live a nomadic life, far from the city’s anguishing buildings, like some kind of sensual, musical animal, that reveals itself to curious fans at will, semi-naked, and then disappears mysteriously after a song or two. She sure looks comfortable in that environment, and her music perfectly works in it. She’d just have to figure out where to plug her guitar amp… Don’t miss her at Brooklyn Bazaar when she opens for Javelin.

Quite surprisingly, in the last decade Soul music has become one of the most experimented genres in NYC and beyond. Snubbed by most of the creative musicians for decades, Soul is now, probably for the first time, something that’s not immediately associated with mainstream. Raised in London and currently based in NYC, Oyinda is an emerging Nigerian soul singer songwriter and producer who is pushing the genre’s envelop in a very personal, dark, borderline experimental direction. Single "What Still Remains" (streaming) features a sparse but bold production, where buzzy, at times distorted synths challenge her impressive vocals in volume, building a moody atmosphere that defies the genre’s redemptive tendencies. Don’t miss her show at Baby’s All Right on Saturday 11.15 with Tei Shi and Yumi Zouma.

Orange Cassettes is a new EDM Brooklyn band formed by Anton Armony and Mod – the two have been dwelling in the NYC scene since the early aughts, being involved, respectively in bands Radio 4 and Elefant. Debut single "Go in the Light" (streaming below) features some noteworthy collaborations, including Phil Mossman (LCD Soundsystem), Jim Orso (Holy Ghost!) and Luke Jenner (The Rapture). The band will be playing their debut show tomorrow (11.12) at Baby’s All Right with Ludwig Persik and Cathy.

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

When we see an emerging NYC band play three local shows in a week we wonder whether they are starting to get a bigger following or simply… don’t know what they are doing (it’s very hard to get out the fans when playing shows so close to each other, and empty rooms are bad for bands and venues). But either way, Tiny Hazards – a Deli Artist of the Month earlier in 2014 led by visionary songwriter Alena Spanger – is so good that they deserve a bigger following. The Brooklyn quintet plays what ove here we call "Avant-Indie," i.e. the more experimental variety of indi rock, and they do it by blending anything from math rock to pop to noise rock. Check out this insane single entitled "Silouhette," which is at once enjoyable, bizarre and friggin’ scary. Schizopop, indeed… You can see Tiny Hazard live at Silent Barn on November 11 and 16, and at Pianos on the 14th.