New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
(Pic.© Wandering Hat, 2011 © Eastward Films, 2011) Emerging DC pop rock band The Silver Liners are having a big month. After having their track “Like Clay” featured on Teen Mom 2 last week (more details here,) the band will be performing on Saturday the 21st at Red Palace with fellow DC bands The Riverbreaks and The Young Rapids. Check out more info on their facebook and RSVP for a chance to win tickets here! –Amanda D.
The Silver Liners – Just Like The Rest from The Silver Liners on Vimeo.
Thanks to all the bands that submitted through our SonicBids Open Submission, and congrats to the following bands that made it through to the final round of voting (which you can check out now in the right column!)
The Great Unknowns (pic above) are an alt-country band situated out of DC who describe their sound as "rock music for the open road." The title track (below) off their most recent release Homefront, (out January 2012,) was named one of the winners in the Washington Area Music Association’s (WAMA) 3rd annual P.A.S.S. awards. And the track "I Wish I Was the Girl I Was" just won the grand prize in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest!
And The Will To Survive, our most recent Band of the Month winners (interview still to come!) also made it through to the readers poll via Sonicbids. These indie rockers, based out of Harrisonburg Virginia, said it best: "Think back to a time when you were truly happy, The Will To Survive was there." Check out tracks from The Teeth Chattering Demos on their FB page now!
On Thursday 1/19, DC’s own up and coming country rock group the Morrison Brothers Band, will be hitting the 9:30 stage with tracks from their 2011 indie release "Shotgun Silhouette" and their 2010 debut "Midnight in Virginia." And the 9:30 Club wants to make sure that you are there for the fun, so we’ve got a couple passes to give away! Just email us here by 3 PM on Thursday 1/18 and let us know your fav song by the MBB, and why. (Please include your first and last name.) The winner will be chosen at random and emailed back.
Winning tickets is awesome, and supporting locals is awesomer- so if you don’t wanna chance missing out, get your tix here now! And check out their video for "Still Want You Back" below.
You’d really never guess that DC’s indie rockers Redline Graffiti came together as a whole only a few months ago. Having already released an EP in December About and Because, acquiring gigs at some of DC’s best clubs, and conquering the top of our recent band of the month poll (in one of the hugest turnouts all around,) we should be expecting to hear a lot more from Drew Moten (Vocals/Bass/Synth keyboard,) Ajene Harly (guitar), Ebony Smith (drums,) and Donald Martin (Vocals/Keyboard/drums) in 2012. And right now, we wanted to know more about them. So we got a hold of Drew, Ebony, and Donald who filled us in on everything from diversity, Synecdoche, New York, and the "inclined to be musical" vs. the musically inclined. Get ready for some truth in our first interview of the year...
Check out some tracks from their EP About and Because below, and own it via their site.
After a European tour last summer, Lightfoot is finally back in D.C. They’re up to their usual sexy-60s-pop antics and happen to also be releasing an official EP today titled "Scarlet Sails." You can download the album here. Or, even better, you can plan to attend the album release show at Black Cat later this month and receive a totally free 7" vinyl record! Nice! Here are the details:
Friday, January 27
Black Cat Main Stage
with Loose Lips (last show), Ugly Purple Sweater, and Paperhaus
$10 – Buy Tickets Here
I’ll be reviewing this album later, but since I know just how impatient you all can be, here’s a sneak peak at the video for the first single, "1963."
–Jarrett
Arlington VA’s darkwave duo Screen Vinyl Image emerge again with electronic shoegaze splendor in Strange Behavior (released Dec 2011.) IMO, Kim and Jake Ried are at the top of the leader-board when it comes to their genre, and after a listen- I think the SVI audience would agree.
One could simply spin this entire record at a Goth Prom night and have the place jumping with doom & gloom in SVI’s catchy rhythms as heard in "Revival", a gothic boom layered in pumping beats and fuzzy guitars. And "Rx" hits even darker notes, welcoming a good ol’fashioned blood rave.
"Stay Asleep" gets beautiful with lush guitars oozing over that beat that keeps you swaying on the dancefloor, before pushing through into another realm of intoxicating synth swirls and hallucinogenic vocal reverbs. Acoustic guitars come in on "My Confession" as Jake’s echoes melt into the atmosphere that remains from "Stay Asleep." Chilling yet soothing, and dark as all hell. –Dawn
The results are in from the Open Submissions stage for our DC/Baltimore Year End Poll for Emerging Artists. All of the submissions were ranked by Deli Editors from other cities and the list of acts that have advanced to our Readers’ Poll phase are below. We will also be releasing the list of nominees chosen by our local jurors very soon. We would like to thank all of the talented artists who submitted. It was our largest Open Submissions pool yet! (Pic: Satori Trova)
Gauchiste, a metal trio composed of Tannon Penland (of Loincloth), Tomas Phillips and Craig Hilton, will be releasing their self-titled debut album on Little Black Cloud Records. The band, though based in black metal, describes the album and their music as more of a sonic exploration of the “otherness” or other types of music in the world. After meeting in North Carolina, the three members of Gauchiste created the band and made it into their “everyday routine” , adding composing and making the music into a crucial part of their lives.
Gauchiste will be released on January 17th digitally and with a limited edition physical run of 100 records and 100 CDs. Go to gauchiste.bandcamp.com for more info. -Amanda
VA’s indie rockers Mokey Doris have been putting out their sound since 2010 when the quartet of Kalem Jones, Cody Jones, Michael Pion, and Robert Mays originally formed. With a solid self/titled album released this month (now available), they’ve gone on to gather a super strong fanbase that easily pushed them to the top of our recent poll, voting them as the Band of the Month. So we got a hold of Kalem (singer/songwriter) to find out more about the good vibrations backing Mokey Doris. Here he tells us about Aunt Mokey & Aunt Doris, an upcoming tour, and hopes for the next big wave in the DC scene. Now onto the interview...
Catch Mokey Doris at Axum DC Lounge on Saturday Jan. 28, @9 PM!
On Friday 12/30, Drive-By Truckers will be on there 2nd night of a 3 night residency at the 9:30 Club. And on this night they will be joined by the ever-rising Baltimore based americana-rockers J Roddy Walston and The Business! And the 9:30 Club wants to make sure that happens, so we’ve got a couple passes to give away! Just email us here by 5 PM on Thursday 12/29 and let us know your fav song by J Roddy Walston and the Business. (Please include your first and last name.) The winner will be chosen at random and emailed back.
Tickets are going fast (one night sold out already at time of publishing,) but you can still get them here. For now, check out their video for "Used to Did" from their album Hail Mega Boys, below.
Season greetings from Mittenfields! The DC based rock quintet have a ‘name your price’ deal going on over at their site for their self-released EP The Fresh Sum (released July 2011) until the end of the year! The five tracks highlight their impressively huge sound in the vein of Pixies and Pavement. Get a taste of the excellence below! They’ve started working on their new full-length album due out in 2012, so stay tuned.
Catch them live at the Velvet Lounge on Jan. 2 2012!
DC’s experimental trip-hop project Pressure Theif is the sole creation of Geoff Simons who likes to "wail on a mic and bang out chords on a guitar." And he does it well- with a discography of 4 EPs put out this year alone! No wonder he was our most recent poll winner for Band/Artist of the month. Relatively new to the scene as a solo project, we wanted to find out more about Pressure Theif, so we got in touch with Geoff who tells us about love for his hometown, seeing the Pixies, and his first band- 2214. Onto the interview…
Pressure Theif just released his 4th EP, The Tourist, which you can check out below.
