It’s not over people, not over just yet… here’s another dose of results from the NYC Submissions to our Best of NYC 2013 Poll for Emerging Artists. What do we have here you say? SINGER SONGWRITERS AND ROOTSY POP acts!

Total submissions in this category: 43

Artists Qualified to the next stage (Readers’ Poll, starting around 01.15):

1. Storyman – 7.66 (out of 10)
1. Dear Georgiana – 7.66
3. Johanna Warren – 7.5

Honorable Mentions (scores above 6.5):

Nina Yasmineh, Luke Wesley, Les Racquet, Ricky Lewis, Deb Oh & the Cavaliers, Gentleman Brawlers, Nicky Egan, Rachel Brown.

Jurors: Brescia Mascheretti (Deli writer), Jaqueline Caruso (Deli LA), PDG (Deli NYC)

Stay tuned for more results, and then for the readers’ poll!

The Deli’s Staff

When I first heard synth pop quartet Blank Paper, the first thing to cross my mind was: this is a band that knows the value of deep sleep. With tracks like ‘Tape Dreams’ and ‘Wishing Well’ off their last EP, this quartet awakens a wide sonic palette, all while sleepwalking through lucid lyrics fitting perfectly with the record sleeve’s giant, fold-out unicorns. New song ‘Ambien’ revels in this state of unconsciousness, when singer Marie Kim pleads repeatedly with you to do whatever you want, just don’t wake her up. Perhaps the band’s catchiest track to date, the song asks for somnambulance, while synthesizing one of the group’s more urgent sounding synth-pop jams yet. Check it out below, and see them plug in their keyboards live when they play at Music Hall of Williamsburg on January 17th. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

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

Anyone with reservations about how awesome this year is going to be, need look no further than Late Cambrian. A band that needs no convincing of how great things are. From the crashing rock theatrics of ‘Ryan Gosling,’ to the dance-ready ‘The Year I Cut The Cable,’ the good times are here right now… and dammit… they’re here to stay. Think of a much more optimistic Strokes, or a less French Phoenix, and you’re close to the sound of this excitable trio. Late Cambrian is all this and more, and just might make you smile too. Check out their popular track from Converse Rubber Tracks, ‘Walk of Shame,’ below. Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

There’s a big world out there waiting for you, and I can’t think of a better way to start exploring it, than by throwing on Sri‘s latest song ‘That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate,’ a Mission of Burma cover, evokes a lost world of possibilities, that Sri’s hauntingly crisp vocals make clearer than I’ve heard the track done before. Check it out below and get lost in her world yourself.

Relentlessly, like a meth cook with lung cancer, we keep delivering piles of what we know to do best: list of names of exciting emerging NYC bands! Here are the results for our Best of NYC Poll for Emerging Artists.

After giving you some shiny new artists for the Indie Pop, Alt Rock, Alt Folk, Hip Hop and Revival Rock category, it’s time for ELECTRONIC! Lots of submissions and lots good stuff here, as always it was very very hard to choose just 5 artists.

Total submissions in this category: 36

Artists Qualified to the next stage (Readers’ Poll, starting around 01.15):

1. Blank Paper – 8.5 (out of 10)
2. Brothertiger – 8.3
3. Kodacrome – 8.16
4. Leverage Models – 8
4. Twintapes – 8

Honorable Mentions (scores above 7):

Young Heel, Club Girls, Meridian, Beca, Ramses Alexandre, Lip Talk, Kris Keyser, Ghastly City Sleep, Manicanparty, New Myths, Ballroom jacks, Challenger, Loveskills, Con Vos, Dead Pop Stars Society, El Rio, Haunted Echo, Syvia.

Jurors: Dawn Reed (Deli DC Area), Jake Reed (Deli New England), PDG (Deli NYC)

Stay tuned for more results, and then for the readers’ poll!

The Deli’s Staff

Spirit Animal breaks out on their latest fun filled party anthem record with ‘The Black Jack White’ (streaming). We wish this would have came out in the summer because it’s begging to be blasted out of our windows. In the 4 track EP Kingdom Phylum, it’s sometimes funky and always fun. We wouldn’t be surprised if Beck (Midnight Vultures era) is the king of this realm, and Alexis Krauss (Sleigh Bells) is the Queen – but Spirit Animal are definitely the party makers.
You can join in on the fun and pledge your lineage to their kingdom, and maybe even find your own Spirit Animal in the process on January 31st @ Webster Hall. – Joe Fish

There’s nothing wrong with a little fun right? There could be worse reasons to love the music we do, and The Cartwheelers already know this about you. And expressly for this purpose: this Jersey punk duo for their latest EP ‘Hot Socks! It’s… The Cartwheelers’ have compiled the fastest set of party tracks we’ve heard in awhile. 

From a friend’s attempt to hide his heroin habit (‘Heroin’), to losing money to sketchy characters (‘Loan Shark’), this band may deal with the some uncommon situation (although we all have occasional money issues), but for them… it’s just another part of life’s bizarre, crazy, and very weird journey. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

This band submitted their music for coverage here.

Meet Todd Kramer: one part country, one part singer/songwriter, and one part blue-eyed heartbreaker. Though it seems all he can sing about these days is the damage done to his own heart.

New EP ‘One Pair of Eyes’ carries a torch for broken hearts everywhere in songs like ‘Empty Cup’ and ‘Numb.’ Honest expressions of what it’s like to lose someone you’re close to, but Todd’s also ready to turn up the knobs and let a burning guitar solo rip through whatever’s troubling you too. Check out closer ‘Redeye’ for more on that. Listen below and check him out January 16th when he plays at Sidewalk Cafe. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

This band submitted their music for coverage here.

The Indie Pop results of our Best of NYC Poll for emerging artists are always the most anticipated – beware though! These are just the Open Submission results, i.e. the list of indie pop bands that qualified to the next phase of the poll by submitting online; there will be a longer list soon including bands voted by our jurors.

Total submissions in this category: 28

Artists Qualified to the next stage (Readers’ Poll, starting around 01.15):

1. Half Waif    8.5 (out of 10)
1. Hey Anna    8.5
3. Seasick Mama    8.33
3. Graph Rabbit    8.33

Honorable Mentions (scores above 7.16):

The Dirty Gems, Hurrah! A Bolt Of Light!, Coastgaard, Modern Merchant, The Roofer’s Union, Truest, Beecher’s Fault, Grand Cousin, Strip Darling, Dalton, dot and logic, Tropic of Pisces, Isle Of Rhodes, Marco Argiro.

Jurors: Charise Sowells (Deli Austin), Jordannah Elizabeth (Deli SB Area), PDG (Deli NYC)

Stay tuned for more results, and then for the readers’ poll!

The Deli’s Staff

Active Bird Community has the sound of a band that might hit you over the head if you mistakenly get too close to them. But their music is so inviting, you might end up in dangerous proximity for one of their electricity driven explosions. A word of advice: don’t let their softer tracks like ‘Eidolon”s crashing waves fool you (smooth as the song may sound), or the anthemic rise of latest track ‘Mooncalf.’ This is the calm before the storm of ‘Astrophobia’ or the relentless charge of ‘Open Up.’ This quartet does indeed mean business. I recommend listening to as much of this impossibly catchy band as possible, and with any luck… perhaps we’ll get a full-length release out of them soon. Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

Full results of the Best of NYC for Emerging Artists ALT ROCK Open Submissions are here.

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

Like Leonard Cohen and early Johnny Cash meets Phosphorescent, Wharfer, a.k.a. Kyle Wall, groans and strums a spare, free-verse folk with a twinkle in its eye. The contemplative tales on his debut album as a solo artist ‘The Rattling’ cover simple acoustic guitar with piano, organ and a wand’s touch of reverb.
iPhone recording and midnights at McCarren Park create a distant, hollow feeling in Wall’s voice. The lyrics, printed with the song streams, read like self-reflective verses carried over from his years of poetry writing. It adds up to an echoing, ethereal sound enhancing the album’s phantom chain-rattling.
Wall plays his first show in Brooklyn as Wharfer tonight at the Knitting Factory. On the bill also The Middle Eight and Bear Ceuse – Bianca Seidman

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

The seductive Indie-soul group The Rooks are bringing their funky groove to a neighborhood near you. They’re taking their uniquely molded soul/funk back to Pianos (where they celebrated their CD release party last June) for a residency every Thursday at 10:00pm this month, starting tonight. We’re premiering their newest track in support of their upcoming performances. The anxious, staggered-groove "Twister" has the soul of Maxwell and the brain of The Dirty Projectors, listen below! – Michael Haskoor (@Tweetskoor)