No Northside Badge? That’s OK, you can still come out to Pianos tonight for the second night of the Natureboy residency, featuring also Deli favorites Shenandoah & the Night, GunFight! and interesting newcomers Grow Up to Be Cowboys. Between Natureboy’s captivating and atmospheric folk-pop, Shenandoah and the Night’s pensive, country-tinged indie rock and GunFight!’s bombastic country-punk, there’s a bit of something for everyone to drink to.

Last Thursday, Brooklyn rock quartet The Click Clack Boom (pictured) made a special appearance at The Box as part of a fundraiser for aerial arts based emerging film, “Taxiplasm”. A silent auction featuring a variety of local talents’ artwork, including The Click Clack Boom’s very own Joseph Wolf Grazi, served as visual accompaniment to the equally varied musical acts. Following the indie rockers, female vocal troupe Hydra hit the stage, singing Russian folk songs mostly a capella with impeccable flair and precision. Taking a break from musical performances, an aerial demonstration stimulated the senses before the headliner’s Mystical Weapons – an improvisational project headlined by Sean Lennon.” Together with drummer Greg Saunier Sean hypnotized the crowd with strobe lights and avant garde electro-jams, comprised of buzzes, beeps, and whirs emanating from unidentified electronic devices, bass/guitar distortions, and eruptions of spastic drums. The evening was a unique collaboration of artists and a rare opportunity that was a privilege to experience. Catch The Click Clack Boom next at Santo’s Party House on Tuesday, June 19 for the Reverbnation New Music Seminar Showcase (Free admission!). http://www.theclickclackboom.com – Meijin Bruttomesso

If any of you out there wish you had seen The Beatles back in the Cavern Club days, where I’ve heard the band screamed bar anthems for bikers while still managing to stay on top of beautifully intricate four-part harmonies, Baby Brother might be as close to that era of the fab four as you can come… at least in their quieter moments, like the homesick ‘Texas.’ Once Baby Brother starts flying however, they can take on an almost hellbilly air in screamers like ‘Abuse’ (streaming below). The band has a big appetite, but they pack it all into catchy little numbers usually not stretching beyond the 2 1/2 minute mark. Baby Brother is a group that doesn’t take themselves too seriously, but like the Violent Femmes and Talking Heads before them, that will only make you pay even more attention to them.

Check out their full-length ‘Strange Things‘ when you can (the eponymous song alone should hook you to the rest of the record) and see them live when yo uget a chance. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

F. Stokes is a poet. This should be made clear first and foremost for those who don’t equate the term with a Hip Hop MC. Arguments can be made as to whether the syncopated chatter effused by most rappers constitutes beautiful or insightful language, but F.Stokes delivers a compelling example of just those qualities. Pair these excellent verses with bright head-nodding production and you have an artist with a bright future. His style is very New York, though with a slight nod to ATL which is unexpected given his Chicago and Madison, WI roots. Regardless of where he comes from, he has prevailed with the EP "Love, Always". Be sure to check out the video for the single “My Simple.” -=brokeMC

How many music industry events does NYC need, really? Actually, let me rephrase that: how many music industry events does NYC need… in a 3 week time frame??? It’s like a dream for Music Industry panels addicts!

Following CMJ and SXSW’s model, not one, not two, but THREE organizations have in recent years decided to organize a similar industry occurrence. Bizarrely, they all decided to schedlue their events between the end of June and the beginning of July: L Mag’s Northside Fest will begin tomorrow and last until 06.17, which is the exact day when the New Music Seminar, with its never ending list of sponsors (chapeau!) will kick off. The brand new CBGB’s Fest will follow suit in early July.

Buzzworthy post punk band of Iranian expatriates Yellow Dogs is probably the only artist that’s playing at all the aforementioned events – the guys also have a show at Rooftop Films on June 14 and a few more between now and early July. They have also released a video of their single "This City" – streaming below.

After gathering a considerable amount of buzz in the last couple of years (see our 2011 interview with the band here), LA’s White Arrows are finally releasing their debut LP, "Dry Land Is Not A Myth," which sounds as an intriguing exercise in cross-genre experimentation. The LA quintet seamlessly mixes electronic dance beats with garage-pop guitars, fake saxes a la They Might Be Giants, and soulful backing vocals – all under the direction of lead singer Mickey Church’s ever-changing vocals. Church’s voice switches between a vulnerable falsetto and a strong swagger as he leads his band’s persistently bouncy musical charge. After opening for White Denim, Friends, and Oberhofer in Europe, White Arrows will embark on a summer North American tour with Beat Connection and Teen Daze. The tour begins in San Francisco before hitting the Troubadour this Saturday June 16. Dry Land Is Not A Myth officially drops June 19th. – Joshua S Johnson

Active since 2006, Brooklyn based couple The Inner Banks released their third album “Wild” yesterday, June 12, via DAG! Records. The band’s sound, mostly acoustic but fast paced, is suspended in a place between foggy nostalgia and traditional American roots music: is this dream-folk? A driving snare drum beat propels single “Ana Peru” forward (video streaming below), as a brightly textured guitar line weaves around farfisa organ stabs. Layered female vocals tell a tale of how the song title’s subject matter is ‘just like one of us’ and ‘not like none of us,’ while the chorus plays around the phrase “hey, not ordinary, hey, just ordinary – with a definitive “hey!” punctuating the musical point. The other single, "Box and Crown" confirm this band’s noteworthy melodic talent, offering tasteful string arrangements reminiscent of R.E.M. from the "Out of Time" period, while title track "Wild" betrays the group’s country influences.

Not unlike Michael Stipe’s band, The Inner Banks have found a convincing middle ground between Americana and Dream Pop in the form of a mature, arousing pop with orchestral tendencies. "Wild" has all the right features to be the album we were waiting for to properly celebrate the upcoming summer.

The band will celebrate the release with a special show on July 2 at The Mercury Lounge, sharing the bill with good friends Cardinal. Do not miss! – Dave Cromwell

With a name that perfectly anticipates their stoic electro-rock, influenced by both the early 80s post punk and the previous decade’s Kraut Rock, Led Er Est emerged in NYC in early 2007. The group just released their sophomore album "The Driver" and this video of the single "Kaiyo Maru" (also streaming below), and is about to leave on a 8 dates east coast tour. Fans of goth rock, industrial and other similar mournful genres should check out these guys at Public Assembly on June 15.

Just got out of a crappy relationship? Stop moping around! Everyone knows the best way to deal with hard times is to groove your way through it. This is what makes bands like Cave Days so necessary for broken hearts everywhere. Sure they complain about the limits of unconditional love in confessional tearjerkers like ‘Unconditional,’ but more often than not, they manage to transcend these problems with the lively and sweat-soaked ‘Closer’ and ‘Kodachrome Beach.’ Their latest self-titled EP is the sugar you take with the medicine.

Members Jonathan Murphy and Richard Thomas seem to have discovered the hidden formula behind emotional recovery: sun-soaked guitars, reverb-soaked harmonies, and tropical grooves. Whether shouting back at the pain with lo-fi drum machines (Beat Up Kids), or strumming through their mistakes in campfire duets like ‘All Voices Just Noises,’ the duo always brings an emotional lift to their complex experiences. Sometimes that’s just what the doctor ordered. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

In a scene where faces change with the speed of light, Flying Pace is a band whose members feel almost like family to The Deli. Led by singer/guitarist Kristie Redfield of The Song Corporation, the band features bassist Marta DeLeon from Coyote Eyes and guitarist George Flanagan from El Jezel – all bands that were repeatedly featured in our magazine/blog in the first decade of the aughts. Josh Arenberg completes the lineup on drums. The quartet is about to release their debut album digitally via Bandcamp in two parts: the first, entitled "Quick as a Wink," will be let loose on Saturday June 16th, in occasion of the band’s Northside Festival Showcase at Grand Victory (ex Bruar Falls) in Brooklyn, while the second part "Quiet as a Mouse" will be released on July 20th at a show at Union Hall.

The only song available at this stage, entitled "Boris and Natasha" (streaming below) features Kristie’s signature whispered vocals, which switch from a spoken mantra-style verse to a sudden, dreamy opening in the chorus, where a breezy, unpredictable melody takes over our senses. The band gently supports Kristie’s delicate lines with textural layers of sound, with Flanagan’s guitar occasionally taking over with psychedelic flourishes.

If Flying Pace were painters we would call them Impressionists – a comparison we recently used for Here We Go Magic… these two bands should tour together!

Brooklyn’s pop-rock quintet The Canon Logic recently released a music video for their track “No Domino” off of their 2011 EP “Rapid Empire”. The video begins with a young boy swimming underwater, with an overwhelming sense of summertime nostalgia. Sparser at first, the song is driven by a melody building in intensity and the driving pulse of a bass drum. As the song progresses, light animation becomes more prevalent in the video, accentuating both the singer’s performance of the song and the boy’s journey through the river. As the song reaches its climax with a walking bass line and the thrum of electric guitar, the animation follows suit, with several explosions of color and light. You can catch The Canon Logic at The Mercury Lounge on June 21st. – Bob Raymonda