Good Kids Sprouting Horns from Portland, ME gained the most votes for the open submissions poll amongst New England based artists that submitted to be considered for our Best of New England Poll 2010. They will therefore access the next stage of our poll. The votes were cast by two other Deli editors, the editor of the Los Angeles Deli and the editor of the Chicago Deli out of 25 bands.
Good Kids Sprouting Horns (taken from the lyrics of an Andrew Bird song) are a dreamy, creative indie-folk band from Portland, ME. Good Kids Sprouting Horns is a little keyboard crazy (but in a good way). They’ve recently announced that they will be putting out a new album as soon as (hopefully) Spring.
Here’s how the rest of the bands fared in the Open Submissions voting process:
1. Good Kids Sprouting Horns — NOMINATED FOR NEXT PHASE
2. The Wandas
4. The Luxury
5. Hey Mama
7. VILLANELLES
8. Bobb Trimble’s Flying Spiders
9. Camp Island
10. This Blue Heaven
— Meghan Chiampa