The Crocodile will play host to a lineup of local indie bands for a holiday cover show tonight, featuring the talents of Kris Orlowski, Eternal Fair, Exohxo, the First Times and Elk and Boar. Advocate for the everyman, Orlowski has taken to the stage around town following the late November release of his newest four-song album, Warsaw. The EP builds on the songwriting of last year’s full-length, Happiness is Waiting, which succeeded two previous albums (including a Christmas album to mark last year’s holiday season). Orlowski will apply his skills to some holiday classics again this evening, and is set to play a sold-out show at the Neptune on Jan. 4, along with Allen Stone.

Jingle Bell Indie Rock Holiday Cover Show

Doors: 8 p.m.

Tickets: $10

21+

-Kate Shepherd

Dinowalrus – a Brooklyn band with a great name indeed – just announced the release of their sophomore release, scheduled for March 2003 on Kanine, and shared with the public a preview track ("What Now", streaming below) which discloses more fluid sonics and an increased focus on songwriting. The band’s new sound seems to leave behind the harsh and sometimes quirky psychedelic experimentation of their beginnings and find inspiration instead in the British psych-pop wave of the late 80s.

MP3: Dinowalrus – "What Now"

Brainchild of guitarist O.J. San Felipe and bassist Carly Rabalais – also involved in garage rock juggernaut Golden Triangle – NYC’s psych-fuzz champions Xray Eyeballs aren’t wasting any time. After releasing their debut album on Kanine Records in April this year, the band just announced the release of their sophomore full length scheduled for next February. Now that’s how you keep the buzz going – one release per year! Unaware fans of The Jesus & Mary Chain and Crystal Stilts are invited to check these guys out at Mercury Lounge on January 2nd … Streaming here the "Sundae" single they released in August.

JP & the Gilberts, a Brooklyn’s up-and-coming alt-country outfit, will "challenge" veteran NYC folkster Alex Battles during the release party of their album "Introducing… JP & the Gilberts" on Friday, December 16 at their own Brooklyn basement turned DIY venue, called The Rad Pad. Battles, who also hosts the Johnny Cash Birthday Bash and the Brooklyn Country Music Festival, will also be releasing not one, not two but FOUR albums of original music he recorded in 2011. All four albums will be available in a handmade ‘manila folder set’ at the release. RSVP through the band website for the address! – (as posted in The Deli’s Open Blog – post your band’s entries, videos, and Mp3s here). The Deli’s NYC Open Blog is powered by The Music Building and APS Mastering.

Go Folk Yourself and Erin and her Cello premiered this charming music video for "Sober!" Frequent to the NYC music scene, Erin and her Cello – Erin Hall’s brainchild – is a full band offering quirky rootsy pop with jazzy tinges. Hall plays her cello like an upright bass, plucking bass lines while singing quirky ditties about NYC life. They joined forces with Go Folk Yourself, raising the finances to produce this video via Kickstarter.com. Erin and her Cello’s next show will be Saturday, December 17th, 8pm at Rockwood Music Hall. – (as posted in The Deli’s Open Blog – post your band’s entries, videos, and Mp3s here). The Deli’s NYC Open Blog is powered by The Music Building and APS Mastering.

Our Philly editor QD pointed us towards Wild Vibes‘ music and we soon realized we plugged them already once, last summer, here, with a hilarious blurb (just nod and smile now…) This emerging synth-psych-pop Brooklyn based group belongs to an international collective of artists and musicians called Deerhaus, whose rather vague mission is "to affect peoples’ interaction in the world." Well, I guess their music affected the way QD and I interacted… They released 2 CDs in 2011, the second one in October. They also just premiered this cute but disturbing video of the opener track "Molly", a quirky, super-catchy pop gem that should have been released in the summer, when people normally commit suicide – during the day – in Coney Island’s beaches.

Dreamy instrumentalists Corespondents will play tonight at The Sunset Tavern, sharing an opening slot with Shana Cleveland and the Sandcastles, and followed by Colt Kraft. After touring last year, the band returned to the northwest, armed with soft-edged lullaby-like tunes that mix eastern influences with a west coast sensibility. Plucked strings float over bouncy yet understated bass lines; muffled crooning and hazy guitars suggest cowboys’ heady daydreams. The combination culminates in a textured layering of sounds that, despite its ethereal quality, is far from boring, and should warm up tonight’s crowd with the same apparent ease expressed in their songwriting.

Doors: 9 p.m.

Tickets: $6

-Kate Shepherd

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Here at the Deli’s headquarters (our homes) we are spending hours browsing through and listening to the submissions we received for our year end poll, and thisNYC based singer called Xenia Rubinos stood out as something quite different and interesting. It sound like world music with an indie, electronic edge. Xenia released an album in November, check out the track streaming below.

Intriguingly mixing orchestral pop with progressive indie elements, Brooklyn-based trio Apollo Run enjoys giving birth to musical babies named “Here Be Dragons.” Last summer, they released the first one, and this past month, they welcomed their second, featuring five beautifully crafted tracks. Multifaceted musicians with a knack for memorable and mesmeric melodies, the band showcases their pitch perfect vocals and orchestral dynamics on highlights opener, “City Lights,” sultry “Fireman,” and spooky “H B D” with a surprise ending. Apollo Run is celebrating this release with a “Dragon Party” tonight at Mercury Lounge. It’s an early show, with doors opening at 7pm. After this, the band heads back to the studio to work on their third born, maniacs! – Meijin Bruttomesso

Before the iconic Fat Beats on 6th Ave closed, you could find Creature and his rapper cohorts perched on its stoop pushing their CDs hand-to-hand. Despite his personal accessibility, Creature is an artist whose legacy reaches deep into the archives of independent Hip Hop. His collaborations are many and varied, and his skills as an MC reflect the hustle he has repeatedly invoked as his credo. The "Chester Himes" EP, with production by glitch-hop dynamo Prefuse 73, finds Creature’s signature New York flow presented with an equally engrossing musical backdrop. Creature has always been a thoughtful beast, and the ethereal synth-driven beats complement his vibe perfectly. The only mystery is why it ends so soon! – BrokeMC

Electronic Renaissance-woman Anomie Belle is poised to release her fifth album, Machine, at a free event at The Tractor Tavern on Dec. 14. With a musical pedigree that includes both multi-instrumental proficiency and studio know-how, the diversely-talented artist has already prompted positive responses from critics across the country. Machine’s marriage of synthetic backdrops, organic flourishes and haunting vocals creates an aesthetic that is at once eerie, melodious and at times, a little disconcerting, but is invariably unique. In the album’s title track, featuring Boston-born hip hop artist Mr. Lif, the songstress dissects the dangers of ambition based on materiality and self-absorption, over deceptively smooth beats and tastefully applied instrumentation. Anomie Belle will take the stage on Wednesday with her string quartet, Cataldo, and Michel Navedo.

Doors: 8 p.m.

No Cover

21+

-Kate Shepherd

Brooklyn psych pop trio Bear In Heaven, who after placing 3rd in The Deli’s Best of NYC poll for emerging artists in 2010 was blessed with enough recognition to tour almost incessantly for 18 months (sounds like a nightmare!) will be streaming their upcoming 2012 record, "I Love You, It’s Cool", from start to finish starting this Monday (today) until April third at midnight. The band has slowed down their LP by nearly 400,000% to play exactly once starting today and ending on the day the album is released. In case you are wondering, yeah, at that speed the record doesn’t sound that interesting. It’s some kind of dadaist marketing operation, and we like dada. Although since the file is also on Youtube you MIGHT be able to download it and then speed it up with an audio editor… we are not sure, but if you are a fan you may want to look into it. And in the meantime enjoy the Sun Airway remix of their track "You Do You", streaming below.