White Apple Tree has opened for Ghostland Observatory, Starfuckker, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and will rock the stage for electro pioneers Dirty Vegas at the Echoplex in Los Angeles on Friday, May 6 for their new Electric Love Tour. This bands pop rock melodies and poetic lyrics will put a smile on your face and fill your day with sunshine. Their next LP, Smooth Jaws, will be out by the end of summer. To tide hungry fans over for now, the new single “Circles” will be available May 17.  Michele McManmon

 Check out "Broken Bones" Video        

You heard right! Indie pop darlings The Submarines — if their music strikes you familiar, you might have heard them in an iPhone commercial — are playing the Troubadour with Deli favorites Pepper Rabbit and White Sea on Saturday, May 7th and we’re giving away a pair of tickets.

How do you enter to win? It’s a two step process:

1) Follow The Deli LA on Twitter (we’re relaunching our Twitter and will be packing it with juicy bite-sized music news).

2) Tweet "I love @TheDeliLA and @TheSubmarines <3".

The only catch is you have to be 18 years or older. A winner will be randomly selected and can pick up their tickets at willcall with a valid ID.

-Angelo Lorenzo

Dengue Fever, is burning up critics and fans with their Indie-Cambodian Pop stylings on their latest release Cannibal Courtship. Mixing a LA surf sounds with traditional Cambodian music is ironic, but even moreso when it works, making this their most co-hesive album to date. This six-peice LA based band just finished up their west coast tour and are heading to Europe this summer. To celebrate their new release and tour, they are playing 3 free shows, 6/4 at the Do-Division Fest, Damen Stage in Chicago, 6/18 Sat off the 405 at The Getty Center in LA, and Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2011, Damrosch Park, Bandshell, Manhattan, NYC.  

Michele McManmon

USC based indie band sensation Y Luv recently had their thumping record release party at Silverlake Lounge. Bassist Luke Hanna entertained the crowd by dancing "Coyote Ugly style" on a table during their song "Milo Greene" according to singer Freddy Janney. The two year old group has their next show May 14th at The 3 of Clubs for the New Limbs residency. Being fans of local favs Foster the People and Superhumaniods gives an inkling of their tastes, but Y Luv kicks out more rootsy grooves that hook you front to back. Currently working on their latest video for their song "All Night", these guys are going to burn up the LA indie scene with their latest EP, How Chill Can You Let Go which is FREE HERE for a limited time.  Michele McManmon

I had seen Leftover Cuties a few weeks ago with Milo Greene and Honey Honey and they feel like a relic from the past transported to absorb today’s culture (much like Pauly Shore’s Encino Man). The band’s beautiful pop orchestration of ukelele, upright bass, accordion, and drums set the mood for vocalist Shirli McAllen’s gorgeous prohibition era voice. I’ve yet to mention their speakeasy inspired attire or their smile inducing cover of Lady Gaga’s "Poker Face".

The group will be playing tonight, May 2nd @ The Bardot in case the mood strikes to sip down a few whiskeys. If you miss the show, Leftover Cuties debut LP, Places to Go, comes out May 31st.

Listen to title track "Places to Go"

-Angelo Lorenzo

Falling Still somehow occupies this niche of space between post-Cobain grunge and glam rock, taking the musical taste from the former and the swagger and slight crassness from the other. While Don’t Kick The Whiskey is off being mastered at Bernie Grundman, I was able to take a listen to the boy’s work. The lyrics to "I am the Dr" are dragged through the dirty gutters of the Sunset Strip and leave you feeling a bit sexy, a bit filthy, and a bit high. The rest of the album is more focused from their previous offering, May All Magic Guide and Change You, while still retaining that unique genre bending that has the party pounding beers and swaying to the beat. No official release date as of yet.

-Angelo Lorenzo

i am the dr by Falling Still

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Ghostly soulful, rich vocals reverberated out through the sold out Troubadour show for The Airbourne Toxic Event last evening. ‘All I ever wanted’ warmed up the room. By ‘Book of Love’ 5 songs in, the intimate venue matched the eloquent heart felt song. After ‘Numb’ Singer/guitarist Mike Jollett said ‘So we have a record out today, sounded like I was fishing there, but we’re just a small band from LA playing all over the world’. He added how he just spent the ‘last 2 years of my life singing about my ex-girlfriend’. Painful thought. ‘All for a Woman’ sounds like a Irish limerick and as the set continues it’s obvious that the storytelling lyrics are the essence of the band. The mellow crowd started hopping to ‘Happiness’ and dropped back down to hawker mode unfortunately. The band had fun, which was obvious by their on stage antics for ‘gasoline’, they had a violen vs guitar moment, they body checking the equipment roadie who was fixing the mic, and just smiled and laughed more than any band I’ve ever have seen on stage. It’s all good fun which is sweet to witness at the level of success they have achieved. ‘Kids’ according to Jollett, raised the questions in European journalists to ask if they were ‘anti America’ and their response was they are ‘anti lying’. Agreeable concept, but the song seemed, at first, like a forced anthem, like an Indie version of ‘American Idiot’ because it rolled right into ‘Wedding Day’. Their hit song ‘Midnight’ blasted the crowd and really confirms the power this band can generate live. When Jollett said ‘Thank You’, it was the most appreciative moment of gratitude I’ve seen onstage in awhile. Encore ‘all at once’ has a funky surf punk vibe which rocked even though his guitar malfunctioned. He jumped in the crowd and sang ‘Moving On’ much to many fans delight. They turned ‘Misery’ into Springsteen’s ‘I’m on fire’ which sounded a bit country with the violen and sped up two step beat. They ended up the show with Johnny Cash’s ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ which added to the high energy of the night. Being somewhat judgemental of this band being a one hit wonder when I entered the show made me feel guilty as I left with a great appreciation for their diverse musical talents. It was also refreshing to see success worn so well and egos checked as Jollett hung out with fans post show, fresh off the stage. Though their songs gravitate towards anthems, they have a unique blend of songs that gives everyone a taster of damn good, powerful music with a story.  Michele McManmon

The wonderfully talented, and I hesitate to agree with the following, psychedelic pop band The Glass Canoe recently premiered their video for "First Ideas" over on My Old Kentucy Blog. We’re reposting it here for your visual and aural pleasure.

"First Ideas" is aptly named, being the first single from the group’s debut album Chimera. The song is carried across the shoulders of a lullaby-inspired guitar melody before fleshing out with equally wonder-inducing instrumentation and sleepy-eyed vocals. There are two intriguing vocal breaks, the latter leading to the crescendo of the track before fading into bliss. The video, directed by Michael Shainblum, reflects the mood of the song with golden, technicolor, nostalgia inducing landscape.

-Angelo Lorenzo

"First Ideas"

"What a Green Taste"

Useless Keys mixes quiet blues, psychedelia rock and adds a punctuation mark. Guitar riffs sound like a sirens song and driving drums accentuate sweeping melodies while vocals inaudibly croon. This quartet’s most recently released EP "Is the Painting Changing" is available online and at shows.  If you like their song "White Noise", just wait and see what they have in store for you next.  Catch this LA Indie scene staple play their brand of strung out rock at The Satellite with Brother Tuesday, April 26 at 10pm.  Michele McManmon

This San Diego based trio are blazing a new trail on the Indie music scene. Their recently released debut EP "Roar" (from Auto Tone records) mixes a tropical island beach style with romantic lo-fi sensibilities. Dirty Gold‘s video for the single "California Sunrise" echoes fuzzy memories of days past intertwined with a shattered idealistic hope for the future. Their music is of a youthful offering for a time when disillusionment meets maturity. The greatest answer for this confusing time in life is to have a good old fashion beach party with some frosh tunes like those found in the Dirty Gold hills of SoCal.  Michele McManmon

It may be a bummer, but I think it’s a proven fact that heartbreak is a catalyst for heart wrenching pop music. Meet Alex Jacob — nineteen-year-old Van Nuys resident who, as of last autumn, became an owner of a broken heart after a relationship crumbled. Tapping into his innate gift of songwriting, the melancholy teenager used his breakup as fuel for some otherwordly bedroom pop he writes under the moniker Therapies Son.

And from the sounds of his self-recorded debut EP, Over the Sea, music is a beautiful source of release for the young musician. The five songs that comprise the EP range in tone from the warbling merry-go-round waltz of “Rose Red Rose,” to the heavy, guitar-driven psych-pop of “Touching Down,” but all possess that fuzzy warmth of lo-fi.

You can purchase the Sargent House release here and catch Therapies Son’s performance at The Echo Friday, April 29.

-Katrina Nattress

From L.A.’s esoteric underground comes the austere and mature sound of Letters Vs. Numbers. At the forefront of this hidden gem of a group is a musical sophistication and elegant simplicity in song craftsmanship that is not readily seen in bands riddling the streets of our fair city. Letters Vs. Numbers is the perfect platform for a young artist’s voice exploring his musical prowess. Check out the Deli’s exclusive premiere of this bands collaboration with director Nate Miller for LvN’s first music video, "Let’s Play God," a beautiful amalgamation of sonic atmosphere and cinematic depth.

– Chris Castanon