The Deli will be sponsoring the 6th Annual LC Fest, organized by Local Correspondents, a Brooklyn-based independent music community. This year’s fest runs from Wednesday, June 6 through Saturday, June 9 at Bar4 in Park Slope (444 7th Avenue). The free four-night festival features twelve 20-minute sets each night, and performances are from 8 p.m. to midnight, with doors at 6 p.m.

Here’s a shortlist of recommended performances: Jodi Shaw (June 6), Matt Singer (June 7), Paul Basile of Great Elk (also June 7), Shannon Pelcher (June 8) and Bryan Dunn (also June 8) have all just recently released new albums, while The Bright Silence (June 9) opened for Spacehog in February. Plus, Heidi Sidelinker (also June 9) is most well-known for being in Lowry, but is playing a rare solo set at this free festival, as is Casey Shea (June 7), who almost always plays with a band and has been touring almost non-stop since his new album came out earlier this year.

A full schedule of performers is available here.

Local Correspondents (LC) is a supportive Brooklyn-based community for independent artists. In addition to its annual festival, LC hosts weekly showcases and open mic nights at venues throughout New York City, bringing together an extremely talented and diverse group of performers. LC offers a helping hand to performers who live and visit the NYC area by providing them with advice, tips and opportunities to play.

Skaters is one of the most interesting new indie rock bands highlighted in our latest year end Best of NYC Emerging Artists Poll. The band was formed less than one year ago and consists of Michael Cummings and Noah Rubin (The Dead Trees, Adam Green, Little Joy), who spent a year trading demos back and forth from Los Angeles to London with Guitarist Joshua Hubbard (The Paddingtons, Dirty Pretty Things). The three met in the middle to record an EP in a Manhattan loft, and never left the city.Skaters just released this video of the song "Done for Good" from their debut "SCHEMERS" EP – which can be downloaded for free here.

A bit of advice: If you’ve just listened to the first track off Foxygen‘s debut LP ‘Take The Kids Off Broadway’ and are a bit puzzled, don’t worry! That’s just the band shifting your brain cells around to prepare you for what comes next. ‘Make it Known’ makes Ariel Pink’s ‘Hold On’ sound halfhearted… hell, this song could be our new anthem if we’re not careful.

But that’s probably not what they had in mind. A lot of this duo’s music feels entirely off the cuff, even while sounding like a lot of time was spent on these tracks. Occupying that historical space somewhere between hippie psychedelia like 13th Floor Elevators, and glam rock like Roxy Music/early Bowie, it’s hard to tell what era this music was conceived in – which is the very prerequisite of timeless records. Frankly, this is a band that can’t seem to make up their mind about much of anything, and it’s probably for the best. The twin vocals of songwriting team Sam France and Jonathan Rado seem to switch genre entirely mid-verse or mid-hook, going from a tumult of horns and organs to jangly guitar and back again. Leader-of-the-pack motorcycle rock n’ roll gives way to Shirelles fanfare and viceversa, all fronted by something close to Mick Jagger… it’s retrolicious, through and through.

If all this sounds looney tunes, well… it kinda is. But maybe I’m just being old-fashioned. As Foxygen says themselves: "How could I love someone if I’m not willing to change?" Bedroom production aside, this is the clearest representation of something new I’ve heard in quite some time. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

Making music is an act of devotion for Seattle’s Subaqueous, who brings the mysteries of the subconscious to light in his second full-length album "Immerge". Working with a variety of guest artists from vocalists to udu players, Subaqueous creates fluid downtempo electronica inhabited by tribal drums, deep grooves and vagrant melodies. Using gypsy scales and the blues to create an enigmatic vibe, "Immerge" evokes an inner journey through trance-inducing basslines that roll beneath a heavy beauty.

A staple of the NYC scene with his ambient collective Aarktica, Jon DeRosa – when solo – croons with a resonant bariton and raconteur draw reminiscent of a less dramatic Nick Cave. The current Brooklynite and New Jersey native will celebrate the release of his full-length solo debut “A Wolf In Preacher’s Clothes” on June 3rd at Rockwood Music Hall. Unlike in some of his previous endeavors, Jon is bringing out his finely tuned vocals, emerging more and more as a singer-songwriter with songs like “Who Decides?” – one of the album’s more upbeat fixtures. The album is marked by an orchestral pop production, where each tune explores a diverse sound structure including, alternatively, layered accordions, piano,  steel guitar, strings and horns. Stand out songs like “Teenage Goths” and “Birds of Brooklyn” will intrigue fans of Beirut.

A rounded artist who isn’t happy to stick with one formula, Jon DeRosa is somewhat of a musical enigma, taking inspiration from his diverse background and branding everything he produces with a sense of old world wisdom. – Devon Antonetti

Port St. Willow is the solo work of Brooklyn singer-songwriter Nick Principe. Even though Principe heads the band himself, Port St. Willow’s music takes on grandiosity much fuller than the lone musician. The band’s recent full- length debut “Holiday,” recorded in Portland, Oregon, where Principe was previously based, plays more like one long dream, with ambient vocal whispers and ethereal melodies bleeding into each other like one long song. Tracks like “Amawalk” and Five Give Two Five” stand out with sounds of echoes in a howling wind, both chilling and soporific. Port St. Willow is performing around New York this summer, with an upcoming show at Spike Hill in Brooklyn on June 14. – Devon Antonetti

Surely few things are more provocative, in a NYC scene dominated by the humble lo-fi attitude, than a frontman who sees himself in grandiose terms. An actual descendant of German knights, Neon Legion (the project of Phillip Kressin) approaches rock in the same serious terms as Classical music, which Phillip studied while going to school abroad in England.

While it may be hard to hear some of these ideas initially, spend some time with Kressin, and you’ll hear an ambitious take on historical events with the capacity to conjure even some of Goethe’s metaphysics (yes, I went there). The man’s take on world events is unsettling and, combined with his penchant for tense atmospheres, places this music within the tradition of the dark, angular Teutonic culture.

Neon Legion’s latest ‘La Revolución, ‘ takes on these subjects with aplomb in haunting tracks like Empire’ and ‘Time to Feed.’ See the German knight himself when he returns from his tour of Argentina. – Neon Legion submitted their music to The Deli digitally here. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets), photo by Shervin Lainez

Tonight is the final night of our NYC B.E.A.F. (Best of Emerging Artists Fest). If you like alt rawk, don’t miss the show at Spike Hill!

Spike Hill – $5
ALT ROCK STAGE

12:45 Ellis Ashbrook
12:00 Bugs in the Dark
11:10 Apollo Run (pictured)
10:20 Dead Exs
9:30 Brothers
8:40 Thinning the Herd
7:50  Nico Blues

Fort Lean conceptualizes sonic escape in a parallel utopian world where you can still see the skyline but not hear any cars, and the weather is always perfect. Isn’t that Portlandia? The band just announced that they will join Deli NYC favorite Bear Hands on a summer west coast tour – they’ll be playing The Knit on July 20. – Read Dave Cromwell‘s interview with the band here.

It was great to see ohnomoon live again last night at our B.E.A.F. Psych Rock stage at Public Assembly. Hit hard by the sudden death of their bassist Raymond Blanco towards the end of the year, OhNoMoon’s 2011 was bittersweet at best. Until then, this Astoria-based psych rock band had released the single “Sleeping Limbs” and an outstanding cover of Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes” (streaming below) laying a fast path around town, which culminated in a sold out Deli show at CMJ. Hopefully they’ll give us some new recordings soon. Their somnambulant dream-rock, whose pace is dictated by Kat Lee’s softly pedaling, is rich in hooks and well structured. – Read Ed Guardaro and Dave Cromwell interview with the band here.