If you’ve been wondering what beat boxing soul machine Jamie Lidell has been up to, it turns out he’s been teaming up with psychedelic, acid rock revivalist Ludwig Persik. Ludwig’s self-titled debut EP trips through Iggy Pop and Lou Reed’s New York, filled with the secret, late-night adventures you’ve always imagined happening across the Bowery in the ’70s. And Ludwig should know, having grown up on the LES himself, this legacy permeates his slight frame. It’s spirit is channeled through all five of these tunes.

From the welcome open of the Beatlesque ‘Forward Motion,’ to the Bowie-indebted ‘On The Town,’ there’s a kind of staggering drunkenness to Ludwig’s adventures through his city. Like he’s already seen a lot of life, but can’t quit now and let sleep get in the way of more story-making.

He may be rambling along throughout these jams, but ‘Hallway Light’ is arguably the album’s most immediate destination. Looped in with a creepy, digitally distorted video, one wonders if Ludwig might be a half-cyborg invention beneath all the angst and alienation.

It’s a fascinating debut dealing with old styles, struggling to come to terms with new relationships, and trying to make sense of unfamiliar surroundings. The further along he goes, the more he leaves that past behind. As Ludwig explains in raucous album closer ‘Son,’ “I don’t want to come home… I’ll die if I have to.” See him when he plays Mercury Lounge Oct 9. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

Squirting little doses of filth on a dirty canvas, the mOrgans are out to prove that obscene marries many colours beyond the obscure, violent ends of the rock spectrum. There’s glamorous, there’s good old swinging rock&roll, there’s a stubborn blues, and it’s by playfully pasting their phallic rock songs over enticing loops and pleasing patterns that the trio manage to turn ‘Kentucky Fried Semen‘ or the ‘Texas Hot Link’ into friendly hooks you’ll get the hang of in no time. That thing the Cramps did so well, topped wth a coat of ridiculous. Hailing from Brooklyn, The mOrgans are that new little pill to get the blood pumping across the scene; and if you like what you hear, you can go get nasty with them next Saturday, October 13th at King Killer Studios for an intimate ‘Enter the mOrgans’ EP release party – check their Facebook page for more details. 

The shortest day of the year may not be until December, but here in New York, the nights can get awful cold starting as early as October. In the immortal words of Eddard Stark: winter is coming. If you need a break from the dropping temperature, then allow the ever-charming Jaymay to warm your heart. Starting October 26th, NY based singer-songwriter Jamie Seerman will bring her musical project back home for a residency at Rockwood Music Hall’s Stage 2. She will be playing every Friday through November 16th. Listen to Jaymay’s latest EP, “10UNDER2,” streaming below. – Josh Johnson

The land that gave us Gotye and Kimbra has now unleashed up-and-comer pop crooner Lips. From Auckland, New Zealand to Brooklyn, NY, singer/songwriter Steph Brown knows how to take a slick, sexy groove and work her voice through sometimes failed, and more times unrequited, relationships. Through a candy-coated alto not unlike Imogen Heap or Frou Frou, there’s a superficial cutesiness you’ll get fooled by, until you start really listening closely. New single ‘We Don’t Have Much Time’ sounds fun enough, but there’s an abiding sadness here as Brown deals with an infatuated love doomed to end. But then, these New Zealanders seem to have a way of dancing off any pain. Look for Lips new EP ‘Look, Listen’ available October 25. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

Those of you that have met singer Marta DeLeon already know it doesn’t take long before you feel like you’ve known her for years. For those of you that haven’t met her, this is the feeling you’ll get after checking out her new band The Meaning of Life. A three piece made up from the spirit of Jesus and the Mary Chain, The Cult, and pretty much any band that landed on the soundtrack to ‘Lost in Translation,’ Meaning of Life celebrates the people you meet along your path… and cranks their stories up to a percolated boil. Mixing shimmering gems written by guitarist (and Chilean explorer) Christian Gallardo with Marta’s transcendent soprano (and love of cats), newest single Laura V. (off new EP ‘Play Fuego’) will have you leaping up into the air ready to proclaim the answer to everything… or at least have you leaping up into the air for the hell of it.

See the band when they play with Black Salad and Wojick on October 13, at Fort Useless. – Mike Levine (@goldnuggets)

As we mourn the end of summer, let us not forget the good things about autumn… seasonal beer, the return of leather jackets, and the sun going down just a bit earlier, which means you can party through the night just a little bit longer! Wyldlife is four 70’s-styled pop/garage rockers who swear by foot stomping, hard drinking, mic swinging, and all forms of delinquency. Currently working on a new album, they’ll be playing their next show on October 20th, for the CMJ marathon, at Brooklyn’s Grand Victory – come out, shout, and forget about the summertime blues, ‘ya dig? (Posted in The Deli’s Open Blog – post your band’s entries, videos, and Mp3s here). The Deli NYC Open Blog is powered by The Music Building. 

Next on a recent string of awkward dance solos: watch granny get her groove on at the park in Fast Years‘ new music video for ‘Stolen Love’ (streaming below), revealed a few days ago. Three minutes of hip grinding and contortions later, if you’re not up for partying yet, there’s probably something wrong with you. Hey, she’s probably about seventy, and may look like some sweatpants-wearing lunatic out of a Monty Python sketch show, but she got moves! Enjoy. Stolen Love was taken off Fast Years’ debut EP ‘Women’, which they released in June, the latest output from these five Brooklyn up-and-comers to keep an eye out for – they’ll be playing The Deli’s CMJ Indie Pop stage, on Wednesday October 17th at Spike Hill, alongside Eytan and The Embassy, The Last Royals  & more.

With their teeth cut from Portishead and Goldfrapp’s school of heavy romanticism flung over throbbing nightmare beats, Dynasty Electric offers an enthusiastic response to any question you had about staying up all night tonight. To this end, singer Jenny Electrik offers several compelling reasons to stick things out in your neighborhood dance floor this evening. The Brooklyn duo will be headlining The Deli’s CMJ Electronic stage at The Delancey on Thursday, October 18th – playing alongside Anomie Belle (Seattle), Maus Haus (SF) and Lushlife (Philadelphia) & more. The full schedule of this year’s Deli CMJ shows will be annouced on Monday! – Read Mike Levine’s interview with the band here. 

Eytan & The Embassy will be co-headining The Deli’s CMJ Indie Pop stage with The Last Royals, at Spike Hill, Wednesday October 17th – full schedule of this year’s Deli CMJ shows to be announced on Monday! Check out their music video for ‘Everything Changes’ here & read Mike Levine’s interview with Eytan here.

Channeling the energy of LA’s rowdiest hard rock acts, New York’s Vagina Panther is (suprise, surprise) a band with all the wound-up teenage male fantasy you can take. Whether discussing female curves or cheeseburgers, the band doesn’t mince words so much as it crushes good times and hard nights to little bits with their power chord rapture. The quartet’s latest EP ‘Judge‘ will compliment any manner of debauchery, and something tells me that’s exactly what you need. Their next show will be during the CMJ Marathon, on October 17th. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

This week-end, courtesy of Heard, Paper Box is partying itself into fall with two sweet six-act line-ups in two days – nice one! After a hip hop showcase on Friday, you get as Saturday’s (9.29) headliners Brooklyn’s notorious art-punk duo Japanther  (who, on Halloween, will be opening for The Misfits!), sharing the spotlight with recent Deli NYC ‘Artist of the Month’ Team Spirit, and Unstoppable Death Machines, another mighty pair, who came crashing onto the radar in August with the release of their full-length ‘We Come In Peace‘. Also on stage that night, Cool Serbia and Malcom, as well as New Jersey’s The Static Jacks who were added to the bill a little later. If some you’re not familiar with, check out Heard’s Youtube mix teaser – everything else you need to know, you’ll find here. 

If Animal Tropical’s whimsical songwriting sure makes for some puzzling twists of a melody, the band’s precise execution ensures that the ensemble doesn’t get too dispersive – and, bonus: stays danceable. But if a Carribean beat feels right under two other out-of-sync layers, this band will let that happen, whichever bizarre dance that might inspire. Three rhythms at a time? Sure. Here’s A Virgin Lot. Two years down the road, the troop having relocated from Miami to NYC, we find ourselves with a little collection of extravagant art-pop frenzies, sharing ground with locals Vampire Weekend, certainly, but nowehere near as twee. After a few recent NYC dates, they’ll be heading to Boston next week – new dates should be announced soon. – Tracy Mamoun