NYC/LA electronic muse Ryn Weaver pretty much lived through what most emerging musicians dream about each time they post a song on Soundcloud: instant fame! We are often suprprised when a song by a new act gets 10k plays – her single OctaHate got over TWO MILLION! (Check out the video below). The next challange for artists lucky enough to have earned some recognition through the web is always to follow up with a live show that can support a longer career in music. Ryn Weaver will be playing Baby’s All Right tonight (10.14); it will be a good opportunity to see where she’s at in that department.

Walking Shapes is the sort of band we would task with converting even the most die-hard dance adverse. Their songs tow that careful line between electronic and instrumental dance pop, and while meticulously programmed still manage to capture the electricity of a live band. Walking Shapes is thus an incredibly fluid band. The songs they play can begin ebullient and bubbly, then take a sudden turn towards the explosively propellant, before exploding into bright and spacey fractals, the sonic equivalent of closed eyed kaleidoscope. The result is songs hopeful and earnest with a broad vision.

Read Emilio Herce’s Interview with Walkling Shapes
See Walking Shapes live at The Deli’s Indie Pop CMJ Stage on Saturday 10.25 at Spike Hill 

Bowieball is an annual, one-day freak-out soiree honoring the king of glam, David Bowie. This year’s edition was hosted at Le Poisson Rouge on Sunday, 10/12 by artist/fashionista/all-around-flaneur Deryck Todd, and featured a diverse array of NYC acts such as DJ Frankie Sharp, the Toilet Boys, Matt Katz-Bowen (of Blondie), Militia Vox, the Vangeline Theater, and Keenan Duffty (among others). "The Deli" recently sat down with Todd to catch-up on the evolution of Bowieball, and to see who’s grabbing who’s ass. Brian Chidester asked Todd a few questions about the event in this interview.

Next week is CMJ week folks! As you may have noticed, The Deli – as usual – has some kind of mini-festival within the festival, with seven stages and about fifty bands booked. Oh, and there’s one more! The provocative, rigorously Japanese female quartet known as Hard Nips will be closing our Garage/Psych/DIY show at Spike Hill on Thursday 10.23 with their… (can we say sexy? ok…) sexy brand of garage rock. Definitely the right way to end a crazy night of music in NYC, they’ll hit the stage just after 1am.

After Septebmer it becomes increasingly difficult for us to check the music that’s sent to us for coverage consideration, but this weekend we found the energy to go through a bunch of them, here’s a bands we feel deserve to be highlighted.

NYC quartet Captain Baby offers forward looking pop/rock, ta times reminiscent of that incredible NYC band that was Soul Coughing ("I Say You" – streaming), at others the more progressive David Bowie albums ("Be Ashamed"). Their full length "Sugar Ox" is a raw cross genre exploration and features a lot of interesting ideas and sonics. 

This band submitted their music for coverage here.

Queens-born folk rock band Hollis Brown has a 1960’s heart powered by the seamless recording techniques of 2014, and we love that they’re keeping that rich, old-timey, American folk sound in the contemporary mix. Their latest release “Gets Loaded” nods at the drug-heavy tunes of the 60s by delivering their own rootsy take of The Velvet Underground’s classic 1970 album Loaded from back-to-front. From its opening “Oh Sweet Nuthin’,” powered by a blues-based lead guitar line, to it’s closing “Who Loves The Sun,” driven by a truly harmonic chorus, the release is worth a good, listen, as it adds beauty to already powerful songwriting. The band is about to start recording a new album and will be touring the UK this Fall, but be sure to catch them live when they’re back in the local rotation. – Jillian Dooley

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

Tei Shi – one of our favorite NYC based electronic artists – just released this single, quite upbeat for what she got us used to. It’s climbing the Hype Machine charts, check it out.

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

Have you ever wonderend if a band releasing a split 7" with an artist that was featured on the cover of The Deli NYC automatically gets them coverage on our NYC blog? (Twisted phrasing!) Well, the answer is yes. The band in question is slacker rock duo Washer, who just released a split single with post hardcore maniacs Big Ups, who graced the cover of The Deli’s Spring issue 2014. We wish we could stream a song from that single but the function isn’t enabled, so we’ll have to settle for this rather entertaining tune that marries punk sonics, post punk melodies and lo-fi attitude, entitled ‘Lady Limp,’ featured in the band’s latest EP ‘Bighead.’ You can see Washer live tonight at Paragon Sports for this benefit show.

Caitlin Canty‘s wispy folk tunes bring personal stories of gritty, working class Vermont to the urban snarl of her adopted homeland in Brooklyn. Upcoming record "Reckless Skyline" pulls together this landscape in what may be her finest effort yet. Produced by singer/songwriter Jeffrey Foucault, "Skyline" showcases Canty’s inexhaustible energy and infectious optimism. Sneak peaks of tracks like "Get Up" and "Enough About Hard Times" show the artist still with plenty of gas left in her tank, which is just what she’ll need to burn her on a lengthy, Kickstarter-funded tour across America. She’ll be back home in New York at Rockwood Music Hall next month too. See her live at The Deli’s CMJ Roots Stage at Rockwood on 10.22 – Mike Levine

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

Early in 2014 NYC’s downtempo electro-pop-soul act MOTHXR (previously known as ‘MOTHER,’ an ungoogleable moniker destined to be challenged in court) came out of nowhere and dropped a doozy for their first single, entitled ‘Easy.’ It’s a fog-fueled, intricately percussive, and harmonically-spiraling package of goodness. Industrial at times, beachy at others, it sports Gossip Girl’s star Penn Badgley behind the mic for extra glamour. The release was followed by two more singles reiterating the group’s dark, borderline gothic electro-soul style, dominated by Badgley charismatic and soulful tenor, and well supported by a lineup of solid musicians also active in Lolawolf, Reputante and No.

MOTHXR will be performing at The Deli’s Electronic CMJ Stage at Pianos on 10.24 with Sunflower Bean, Baby Alpaca and Bo Ningen among others.

LINKS:
Read Brescia Mascheretti’s interview with MOTHXR.
Listen to The Deli’s playlist of Best Electronic songs by emerging NYC artists – including music by MOTHXR.

Brooklyn psych-metal band Tidal Arms isn’t just another Sonic Youth devotee creating their idea of what metal sounds like. It is For-Us-By-Us metal. On their self-titled second album, the band supply pile-driving riffs that are mathy enough for engineer Alan Douches’s (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge) mastering, and stoned enough to make you stop wondering about a Kyuss reunion. Dip in to "Gooski’s Ladder" or "Molasses" (streaming), and hold on to your senses. – Ben Apatoff

Hailing from Tampa, FL, Dru Cutler is an eclectic songwriter that now calls Brooklyn home. His debut single "you and me and the system" (video here) is an extremely well produced, atmospheric mid tempo, featuring an unusual melody that resolves in a hummed, evocative chorus. Side B "train" is a bluesier number that confirm Dru’s preference for slower tempos and intimate atmospheres. The more recent single "Familiar" almost veers towards the Pink Floyd ascetic pop of the "Whish You Were Here" years, although the lyrics are kept down to earth – actually focused on day to day life and love in NYC. Dru Cutler will be performing at Radio Bushwick tomorrow 10.10