San Francisco based experimental pop band Talk of Shamans will be playing an East Bay show tomorrow night at The Night Light. Oakland based experimental garage band, Repeater Pan will be headlining the evening while Zip Zilch Nada will start the night off with their debut live performance.

The Night Light hosts some of the best up and coming East Bay bands and Bay Area line ups. This show is a great example of a coherent, genre-centric line up that will flow super well. Be sure to head out to the show tomorrow night!

Deli Readers,

The Deli SF Bay Area’s Best of 2014 Readers and Fans’ Poll for local emerging artists is over! Thanks to all those who cast their vote in support of the emerging local bands and artists in our list of nominees.

Here are the top ten bands and streaming tracks of the top three bands – which we congratulate! Take a listen to David Brookings, Meet Me In Orbit and The Classical!

1. David Brookings & the Average Lookings

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2. Meet Me In Orbit

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3. The Classical

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Here’s the poll’s top 10 chart, full results can be found here.

THE DELI’S BEST OF SF BAY AREA 2014 – READERS’ POLL RESULTS –   Artists Votes   1  David Brookings & the Average Lookings 488 2  Meet Me in Orbit   366 3  The Classical   175 4  Unconditional Arms   155 5  Luke Sweeney   118 6  Friends Without Benefits 82   7  Miss March   76 8  Before the Brave 69   9  Builders   57 10  Breakdown Valentine 50

Stay tuned for the composite chart, with will be released soon. The chart will include details about the point nominees accumulated from the jurors and Deli writers’ votes, and will crown The Deli’s Best Emerging SF Bay Area Artist of 2014.

The Deli’s Staff

The Bay Area based music collective, Seaweed Sway will be putting on their first event of the year at Amnesia Music Hall in the Mission District in San Francisco. This event will be a benefit show for sound engineer and avid music community supporter, Kyle Lesley who was recently diagnosed with stage four metastatic melanoma.

Lesley is known for his volunteer work for causes like Occupy Wall Street SF and the Clarion Alley Mural Project. He inspires everyone who comes into contact with him to connect with and support the local music and arts community.

Mariee Sioux, Future Twin, T.V. Mike and the Scarecrowes and Michael Musika will perform at the benefit show on January 30th. It’s great to see bands come together to help their friend while he suffers through a difficult time. Give back to Kyle Lesley because he is a person who has given so much to others. 

To contribute to the fundraiser for his treatment, click here.

The San Francisco based avant-noise post punk band, Buzzmutt has released a new music video for their single, Stumble Forward. The song is a track off their entrancing 2014 release, Strange Planes of Surveillance.

The Stumble Forward music video is a crisp pastiche of images starring an oddly charming robot. The video looks great and shares a number of clips from Buzzmutt’s local live performances. Watch the video and see if you can make out where the band is playing. If you go to enough shows, you can recognize any stage! We like robots, dioramas, cardboard cities and rock and roll! Stumble Forward has it all!

Oakland based indie-folk artist, Empty Moon recorded a live Daytrotter session featuring a number of songs from his album, The Shark. You can check out the live session here. If you’re looking for some Empty Moon sounds to envelop your ear drums a bit closer to home and far away from the internet, you can attend their upcoming show at Hotel Utah Saloon in San Francisco on January 29th!

On January 22nd, The Independent will be hosting a psychedelic music showcase featuring Brian Jonestown Massacre’s charismatic percussion extraordinaire, Joel Gion and his band The Primary Colours, San Francisco’s premiere psych revivalist band, The Love Dimension, psych pop/post punk band, Cellar Doors and psych soul band, Down Dirty Shake. You don’t see too many full local line ups play The Independent, so do your best to attend to ensure these bands have a successful show. The more we help local bands fill larger venues, the more the venues will be inclined to give Bay Area bands a chance to shine.

Not only is the line up local, but the bands are seasoned and absolutely stellar. We love a big shows just as much as we love bands straight out of the garage. Make your way out to the Independent and have a blast!

The San Francisco based downtempo folk rock band, Hidden in the Sun has released their new album, Seven Seasons today. To promote their upcoming album, they’ve shared the somberly crisp blues ballad, San Francisco Blues. You can hear the song below and if you find it as moving as we do, you can see Hidden in the Sun perform at their album release show at Viracocha in the Mission District of San Francisco on January 31st. We’re glad they’ve come on our radar. Support new music and emerging bands!

Are you a morning person? It’s pretty standard to go out late in the evening and party until the first few hours of the morning, but how about heading out to a party at 6 am? SoMa’s Supperclub will be hosing DAYBREAKER: The Last Supper Edition.

DAYBREAKER is a morning movement that will start your day off unlike anything else. It is about being in the here and now, surrounded by amazing people, beautiful music, and an incredible vibe. It is about dancing your face off before work and feeling gloriously healthy while doing so. It is about love, it is about mindfulness, and it is about mischief.

This event starts at 7:30 am tomorrow morning. It’s a holiday, so hit the bed early and check out one of Supperclub’s final events!

A great local line up has been put together for tonight’s show at Rickshaw Stop. O (formally known as Black Cobra Vipers) will be headlining the show with critically acclaimed local bands, Annie Girl & the Flight and Balms. These bands are a few of the cream of crop in the Bay Area music scene. We’re excited to highlight this show because we’ve been listening to and watching these bands grow for some time.

San Francisco based R&B soul group, Con Brio is preparing to release a six track EP this winter. Their new release, Kiss The Sun is due out on February 3rd and is a smooth and sensual R&B album that is perfect for chilling with friends in an intimate setting or creating the mood for some baby makin’!

We don’t get too much local rhythm and blues music that we really dig, but Con Brio’s Kiss the Sun is impressively produced, sexy and modern. They’re a sizzling musical group and you’ll have a chance to see them perform live at their album release show on Valentine’s Day (2/14), 2015!

San Francisco based soul funk band, Hibbity Dibbty are releasing a single entitled, State Trooper and they’ll be performing at the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco on January 22nd to celebrate! The San Francisco based garage rock band, Hungry Skinny will be the special guest of the show! We think it is safe to assume the bands are going to play long and invigorating sets, so you certainly won’t want to miss this show!

Accompanied by local Bay Area band, Hot Pocket singer/songwriter, STELLA will showcase her downtempo R&B pop sounds on January 21st at The Addition in San Francisco. Stella Santana released her first single, The Reason in the summer of 2014 and continues to release music and play shows. SF is STELLA’s hometown so you should take this opportunity to invest your time and funds into a fellow local artist. This will also be a good chance to check her out before she gets too big to experience her in an intimate setting.