Mmm, R&B! Garage rock is so prevalent in the Bay Area (and is music that we LOVE) that we at The Deli SF hope and dream for the moments we can share some sexy grooves that will make you dance and sway your days and nights away. The Oakland based ensemble, Con Brio is one of the Bay Area’s premiere R&B soul bands and you’ll find out why when you check out their debut EP, Kiss the Sun which is streaming via soundcloud.

Along with taking the time to listen to Con Brio’s album, we make a very serious suggestion that you check this energetic and entertaining band’s live show out for yourselves because the 18 year old lead singer,  Ezekiel "Ziek" McCarter’s lead performances resemble that of James Brown and Prince. Con Brio puts on a moving live show. The band is tight and has great chemistry and stage presence. You can see them perform for free at Stern Grove on August 9th!

The San Francisco based psych-garage rock band, Battlehooch has graced us with new music! The band describes their new song, Type One Error to be a relic that took years to sculpt into a compositional form they felt was suitable enough for recording and live performances:

"This song dates all the way back to our formative college days at UCSC. "Type One Error" was always a favorite of ours and kind of an homage to our love for stuff like Brian Eno’s early solo albums and other futuristic Glam Rockers. However, we were never able to nail it live or get a suitable recording back in the day. It eventually fell by the wayside until a couple years ago, we started jamming on it during band practice and it just clicked and everything fell into place. It has become a staple of our live shows ever since and has become much more of an epic beast since we’ve started playing it again. There’s a whole section in the middle where our horn player, Tom, builds up a crazy wall of interlocking sax loops right on the spot!"

Type One Error is part of a two song digital single. It’s meant to tide you over while we continue working on the follow up to our last EP, ‘Wink." – Battlehooch

We love music with a backstory. Don’t miss Battlehooch’s live performance at The Independent on June 19th with Sun Hop Fat, Bear Lincoln and Lords Of Sealand. Support local music!

The San Francisco based indie balladeer, n.Lannon has released a new single entitled, Another Love from his third upcoming full length album, Falling Inside. Falling Inside is due out on June 23rd on Badman Recording Co, and we’re excited to share this new single to encourage a stir of anticipation for his new collection of music. n.Lannon is so good at creating a full cauldron of tastefully attractive love songs. His music could be compared to Julian Casablancas and Ariel Pink, but n.Lannon has a slightly quieter, traditional take on indie alt music. This new track is lovely and we recommend you take a listen.

"Another Love captures the anxiety I was feeling right before my daughter Olive was born," explains Lannon. "I was having a hard time imagining what it was going to be like bringing another human into the world; did we have enough love, did we have what it was going to take mentally, physically and financially? I was looking answers, clues, trying to prepare, but I never felt totally ready – far from that really! Of course, it didn’t matter – she was born, and now I can’t imagine the world without her."

The San Francisco based folk rock group, Vanwave will be performing live at Brick and Mortar Music Hall on June 27th. The group will be support along with the local Beatles-esque rock group, Cool Ghouls (who have seemed to have slowed down from playing live over the last number of months) and the Canadian synth pop musician, Calvin Love who will expand the bill and create a nice flow of upbeat rock music for the headliner – Netherlands based psych rock star, Jacco Gardner.

Gardner likes to play San Francisco often, nonetheless you never know how many times he’s going to be around in the future so take your chance to see him on June 27th. You’ll also never be able to catch him with this particular line up, which is a nice eclectic mix of modern independent rock music. Make your way out and support this show!!

The Oakland based folk band, Sugar Candy Mountain will be hosting a Hickey Fest pre-party at Swedish American Music Hall on Tuesday, June 16th. Sugar Candy Mountain will be playing a special acoustic set for the show and the Los Angeles based, Mile High Club will be sharing a solo set for the event.

ANTI- Records artist, Jolie Holland will be headlining the show to lubricate the celebration of her anticipated performance at Hickey Fest! Don’t miss this event. It will give you a chance to move and shake with some of artists and attendees before the fest! Maybe you’ll find a new tent mate and a number of new friends!

We’re very excited about this year’s Hickey Fest! Local promoter, Ash Reiter has done it again and this year’s line up is overflowing with awesome psych and folk artists. A large portion of the line up is local, so we love this fest to the fullest and think you should pack up your camping gear and head out to have a seriously rejuvenating and authentic music experience. We’ve got all the information here for you!

"It’s back and it’s better than ever!! We All Together Presents Hickey Fest 2015. Hickey Fest is a 3-day independent music festival featuring 25 bands, community campgrounds, psychedelic projections and other relaxing adventures held in Leggett, California in Mendocino County, just 3 hours north of the Bay Area. Named after Standish Hickey State Park, where the South Fork of the Eel River shimmers against a backdrop of majestic redwoods, Hickey Fest takes place over summer solstice weekend: Friday-Sunday, June 19-21 – the 3 longest days of the year and somehow the 3 longest nights. With group camping at Standish Hickey State Park and bands playing across the way at The Peg House, Hickey Fest is a special summer treat. The Peg House features a shaded outdoor stage and patio area, a sandwich shack with vegan options and lots of tasty micro-brews on tap, and a general store for all your last-minute camping and grocery needs. Katie Colver, the Bay Area’s own favorite musical yogi, will offer Showga (yoga accompanied by live music) each morning. Lance Gordon will be lighting up the night with his Mad Alchemy liquid light show and psychedelic projections. Get a taste of what’s in store with this fun Hickey Fest Video from Arsenii Vaselenko."

Now pack your swimsuit, strap on your guitar and get ready for HICKEY FEST!!

Get your weekend pass now, shared camping included.

HICKEY FEST ARTISTS: Jolie Holland – Dead Meadow – Vetiver – The Blank Tapes – Cool Ghouls – Sugar Candy Mountain – Bells Atlas – Assateague – Two Sheds – Mild High Club – Trans Van Santos – The Donkeys – White Manna – fpod bpod – The Range of Light Wilderness – Everyone is Dirty – The Electric Magpie – Pearl Charles – Luke Sweeney – Lost Luvs – Young Nudist – Extra Classic – This Frontier Needs Heroes – Kacey Johansing

The San Francisco garage surf rock band, Jet Trash has released a new single entitled, Photography is Over. This band has just emerged in the last couple of years, but they’re enjoying some nice attention for their upcoming debut self titled EP due out on July 14th on Burger Records imprint, Wiener Records.

Jet Trash know what it means to be a quintessential West Coast band. They proudly carry the torch of their predecessors The Sonics and The Ventures, joining the ranks of aforementioned Bay Area contemporaries Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees in cranking out modern indie-rock updates on classic ’60s garage-surf. Armed with vintage Fenders and reverb-soaked tube amps, the band’s energetic lo-fi anthems have a youthful immediacy, their massive hooks curling like breaking waves. It’s a sound that has already won the hearts of Jet Trash’s hometown, The Deli SF voting them one of the best up-and-coming bands of 2014 and The Bay Bridged dubbing them “the cream of the crop” of San Francisco locals.

It’s nice to see new local bands doing well! Enjoy this summer time rock track that’s perfect for jamming while heading to the beach on (rare) hot days in the Bay Area!

The Oakland based indie dream pop artist, Day Wave (aka Jackson Phillips) has released a new single entitled We Try But We Don’t Fit In. Day Wave is great at writing charming songs about being awkward. We Try But We Don’t Fit In is melodious and pleasing to the ears. The mix of self depricating lyrics and saccharin sweet tonal progressions can be considered a manifestation of what it’s like to posess a soft side while having to endure the prickly, if not sharp edge of the effects of city life and maintaining balance in an outgoingly aggressive social scene. This awesome artist is set to release his debut EP, Headcase on July 17th. Until then, check out this new track.

The Oakland based folk band, Ghost Town Jenny will be supporting a couple of great out-of-town acts at the Swedish American Music Hall in San Francisco on June 17th. Ghost Town Jenny (led by singer/songwriter, Kym Kylland) is one of the rare local acts you can confidently and definitively call, "folk". Kylland’s music is super pretty, simplistic and a joy to listen to.

Smoke Screen is a soulful electro pop duo that’s going to create a nice crescendo as they’ll follow GTJ on the bill. They’ve got a flashy Hollywood pop style, but their sound embodies more of Los Angeles’ local music scene than a homogenized Hollywood version of a style they originally crafted. They’re talented, polished and will be cool to experience live as well.

Brooklyn’s Tor Miller sounds kind of like the Billy Joel of 2025….or Elton John if he grew up in Williamsburg in 1997. That’s pretty cool. Miller’s piano based ballads are haunting but still pop oriented. It’s possible that he’s going to put on a thorough and emotive show that’s going to make you remember his performance for a long time. Don’t miss this line up at Swedish American Music Hall on June 17th!

The San Francisco based indie-pop soul band, Le VICE will be performing live at Bottom of the Hill in support of the Atlanta based grungy soul musical outfit, Algiers. We certainly recommend you attend this show because you’re going to get to experience a night of a super cool pastiche of new American music.

Both band’s musical styles are dipped in soul like a thick layer of chocolate on a Klondike (do they still make Klondike Bars?), but the soft center of Le VICE’s style is more pop-R&B oriented in comparison to Algiers’ who has a very rigid, rough ’round the edges rock style going on within its compostional core. These bands should be experienced live because listening to their recordings is just going to make you sit and ponder what exactly your ear drums are dancing to.

It’s summer time! Make your way out into the fresh night air and check out Algiers and Le VICE’s interpretations of thrilling soul music at Bottom of the Hill on June 23rd!

The Bay Area based post-electro artist, Matrixxman is gearing up to release his debut album entitled Homesick on July 10th. Matrixxman’s style of EDM doesn’t really play by the rules. Its choppily smooth computerized music embodies creative sonic inconsistencies (not the beats but in regards to a fixed genre specific style) that makes his music’s style intriguing and attractive. 

Before digging into the steely, handcrafted technoisms of Homesick, you need to know a few things about Charles Duff, the Bay Area artist behind Matrixxman… He’s also a voracious information junkie, soaking up government conspiracies and contemporary science-fiction like a proper X-Files fanatic. These cultural reference points are as integral to the background of Homesick as Detroit, Chicago, and Berlin’s musical legacies. Across the record’s versatile track list, Matrixxman uses the language of machines and dance floors like a hungry pulp novelist, weaving together his divergent narratives and characters under one sprawling dystopian sky.

Check out the lead single from his upcoming album due out on Ghostly.

The San Francisco based alternative surf rock band, Lemme Adams released a new EP last week. The five track album is entitled Black Flamingo and is a strong follow up to their debut album Gorilla Back.

Lemme Adams, as a band is able to incorporate horns into their dark surf rock sound in a super tasteful manner. The horns never bleed over into playing cheesy ska riffs or come off sounding overly "Mariachi", even when performing music for the Latin themed third track, Venezuela. Jordan Miller’s bassy tribal drum beats and Adams’ signature vocals make the album familiar and warm in regards to the musical style relating to their previous release. Nonetheless, Adams as a songwriter wrote more about what was going on around him while maintaining a bit of subjectiveness in this collection of songs. You can still pinpoint Adams’ perception and opinion about what he’s lyrically describing, but he’s less emotionally direct than his writing was in the last album.

Adams has the ability to write incredibly cynical songs that don’t put you off or seem unnecessarily confrontational. The title track of the album (which houses some nice faux improvised jam outs) along with the second song, Hella seem to be about general disillusionment with social popularity. Both songs talk a lot about friends, and Hella seems to point out "friends" inconsistencies and trivialness. Hella is a Californian slang term that means "a large amount of" and can be easily overused in conversation. The irony of the word is not lost on Adams in regards his parody of how many times the word can be said and heard if one is in a group of young people in Cali.

The third song, Venezuela captures the sunny feel of the South American country as Adams sings about not being able to escape the sharp sunlight. Christmas Spirit goes along with the band’s weird theme of writing and performing Christmas music all year around, and of course, Toys, the song of the band’s award winning music video has finally made its debut on a recording.

Great record. Good job! Take a listen to Black Flamingo!