Dinowalrus – a Brooklyn band with a great name indeed – just announced the release of their sophomore release, scheduled for March 2003 on Kanine, and shared with the public a preview track ("What Now", streaming below) which discloses more fluid sonics and an increased focus on songwriting. The band’s new sound seems to leave behind the harsh and sometimes quirky psychedelic experimentation of their beginnings and find inspiration instead in the British psych-pop wave of the late 80s.

MP3: Dinowalrus – "What Now"

Brainchild of guitarist O.J. San Felipe and bassist Carly Rabalais – also involved in garage rock juggernaut Golden Triangle – NYC’s psych-fuzz champions Xray Eyeballs aren’t wasting any time. After releasing their debut album on Kanine Records in April this year, the band just announced the release of their sophomore full length scheduled for next February. Now that’s how you keep the buzz going – one release per year! Unaware fans of The Jesus & Mary Chain and Crystal Stilts are invited to check these guys out at Mercury Lounge on January 2nd … Streaming here the "Sundae" single they released in August.

JP & the Gilberts, a Brooklyn’s up-and-coming alt-country outfit, will "challenge" veteran NYC folkster Alex Battles during the release party of their album "Introducing… JP & the Gilberts" on Friday, December 16 at their own Brooklyn basement turned DIY venue, called The Rad Pad. Battles, who also hosts the Johnny Cash Birthday Bash and the Brooklyn Country Music Festival, will also be releasing not one, not two but FOUR albums of original music he recorded in 2011. All four albums will be available in a handmade ‘manila folder set’ at the release. RSVP through the band website for the address! – (as posted in The Deli’s Open Blog – post your band’s entries, videos, and Mp3s here). The Deli’s NYC Open Blog is powered by The Music Building and APS Mastering.

Go Folk Yourself and Erin and her Cello premiered this charming music video for "Sober!" Frequent to the NYC music scene, Erin and her Cello – Erin Hall’s brainchild – is a full band offering quirky rootsy pop with jazzy tinges. Hall plays her cello like an upright bass, plucking bass lines while singing quirky ditties about NYC life. They joined forces with Go Folk Yourself, raising the finances to produce this video via Kickstarter.com. Erin and her Cello’s next show will be Saturday, December 17th, 8pm at Rockwood Music Hall. – (as posted in The Deli’s Open Blog – post your band’s entries, videos, and Mp3s here). The Deli’s NYC Open Blog is powered by The Music Building and APS Mastering.

Our Philly editor QD pointed us towards Wild Vibes‘ music and we soon realized we plugged them already once, last summer, here, with a hilarious blurb (just nod and smile now…) This emerging synth-psych-pop Brooklyn based group belongs to an international collective of artists and musicians called Deerhaus, whose rather vague mission is "to affect peoples’ interaction in the world." Well, I guess their music affected the way QD and I interacted… They released 2 CDs in 2011, the second one in October. They also just premiered this cute but disturbing video of the opener track "Molly", a quirky, super-catchy pop gem that should have been released in the summer, when people normally commit suicide – during the day – in Coney Island’s beaches.

Here at the Deli’s headquarters (our homes) we are spending hours browsing through and listening to the submissions we received for our year end poll, and thisNYC based singer called Xenia Rubinos stood out as something quite different and interesting. It sound like world music with an indie, electronic edge. Xenia released an album in November, check out the track streaming below.

Intriguingly mixing orchestral pop with progressive indie elements, Brooklyn-based trio Apollo Run enjoys giving birth to musical babies named “Here Be Dragons.” Last summer, they released the first one, and this past month, they welcomed their second, featuring five beautifully crafted tracks. Multifaceted musicians with a knack for memorable and mesmeric melodies, the band showcases their pitch perfect vocals and orchestral dynamics on highlights opener, “City Lights,” sultry “Fireman,” and spooky “H B D” with a surprise ending. Apollo Run is celebrating this release with a “Dragon Party” tonight at Mercury Lounge. It’s an early show, with doors opening at 7pm. After this, the band heads back to the studio to work on their third born, maniacs! – Meijin Bruttomesso

Before the iconic Fat Beats on 6th Ave closed, you could find Creature and his rapper cohorts perched on its stoop pushing their CDs hand-to-hand. Despite his personal accessibility, Creature is an artist whose legacy reaches deep into the archives of independent Hip Hop. His collaborations are many and varied, and his skills as an MC reflect the hustle he has repeatedly invoked as his credo. The "Chester Himes" EP, with production by glitch-hop dynamo Prefuse 73, finds Creature’s signature New York flow presented with an equally engrossing musical backdrop. Creature has always been a thoughtful beast, and the ethereal synth-driven beats complement his vibe perfectly. The only mystery is why it ends so soon! – BrokeMC

Brooklyn psych pop trio Bear In Heaven, who after placing 3rd in The Deli’s Best of NYC poll for emerging artists in 2010 was blessed with enough recognition to tour almost incessantly for 18 months (sounds like a nightmare!) will be streaming their upcoming 2012 record, "I Love You, It’s Cool", from start to finish starting this Monday (today) until April third at midnight. The band has slowed down their LP by nearly 400,000% to play exactly once starting today and ending on the day the album is released. In case you are wondering, yeah, at that speed the record doesn’t sound that interesting. It’s some kind of dadaist marketing operation, and we like dada. Although since the file is also on Youtube you MIGHT be able to download it and then speed it up with an audio editor… we are not sure, but if you are a fan you may want to look into it. And in the meantime enjoy the Sun Airway remix of their track "You Do You", streaming below.

Here at The Deli we always feel a little uncomfortable when we see indie bands write songs about Christmas – maybe because we don’t perceive rock’n’roll as a very Christmas-y musical genre. By definition poor, dirty, and allergic to hypocrisy, rock music doesn’t really need to try and exploit this uber-commercial holiday to lure new listeners. Unless you do it the way emerging lo-fi band Mountain Cult did it in this song called "Christmas Day" (streaming below). We are not sure what the slurred lyrics say here, but we can deduct they aren’t about anything that’s even remotely pretty – we actually had to "censor" the song’s cut and paste video, which was submitted to our open blog, for excessively gory content… For a band that sounds like early Ween’s evil cousins, or an electric version of seminally depressed electro NYC band from the 70s Suicide, a Christmas song is the perfect paradox. We recommend Mountain Cult to send this track + video to Fox News – which, as usual, in the month of December is looking for a new Anti-Christ(mas) to expose and condemn. HUGE potential for promotionl!!! Mountain Cult will release their debutself titled EP at Pianos on December 14

Brooklyn-based man/woman punk’n’roll duo The Naked Heroes has stayed quite under the radar so far notwithstanding their energetic, bare-chested and sweaty live shows. Singer/guitarist George Michael Jackson and drummer Merica Lee churn out songs that pack enough fire power to blow the doors off your 1975 Pontiac Firebird. The lead-off track "Ugly Girls" (silly video streaming below) is a charging, pedal to the metal banger with tongue-in-cheek lyrics and ass-shaking rhythm. This album, as well as their debut album "99 Diamond," are free to download from the band’s website. – (as posted in The Deli’s Open Blog – post your band’s entries, videos, and Mp3s here). The Deli’s NYC Open Blog is powered by The Music Building and APS Mastering.

We just received this from The Cake Shop:

The cakeshop show tonight, presented by Jonathan Toubin, goes on as planned, but is now a BENEFIT for the man. we are waiving expenses and $$ is going straight to Jonathan, [who was hit by a cab in Portland while sleeping in his hotel room in a crazy accident]. Please come by and throw support his way, its what he would want!!! Please also go to the other benefit ones nearby at HOME SWEET HOME and MOTOR CITY! this is clearly going to be a killer night of jonvibes!! please also retweet/facebook etc. and spread this around as much as possible.

FRIDAY DECEMBER 9th:
NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN PRESENTS
4th: FIVE DOLLAR PRIEST (12)
3rd: CHICKEN SNAKE (11)
2nd: MARCELLUS HALL (10)
1st: SEDIMENT CLUB (9)
plus DJs
$10 PLUS (1 free drink ticket if you put in $20 or more), 8pm doors
21+, please bring your ID

The Cakeshop Peeps