At The Delancey on Tuesday 10.18 we’ll have a truly fantastic bill with 9 NYC based electro-pop bands – and it’s going to be free!. 21+ – $8.
Full listings of the Deli’s CMJ shows here. See below for the Dream Pop and Alt Rock stages that same night in the same venue (downstairs).

P.S. If you are into Pedal Effects, don’t miss The Deli’s STOMP BOX EXHIBIT at CMJ on Friday and Saturday!!!

ELECTRO STAGE

7.00 – The Casualty Process

7.40 – Illuminator
8.20 – Tiny Victor ies
9.00 – Mitten
9.40 – Computer Magic


10.20 – Psychobuildings

11.00 – Pretty Good Dance Moves

11.40 – Caged Animals

12.20 – Slam Donahue

CMJ dreamers and shoegazers shouldn’t miss this ethereal aural parade of NYC based dream pop bands. 21+ – $8.
Full listings of the Deli’s CMJ shows here. See below for the other stages.

P.S. If you are into Pedal Effects, don’t miss The Deli’s Stomp Box Exhibit at CMJ on Friday and Saturday!!!

7.00 – Spanish Prisoners
7.40 – ohnomoon

8.20 – Mahogany

9.00 – Exitmusic

Under the moniker Perpetual Ritual, Mitchell Saulsberry sings fragile pop songs that come across as both honest and reserved.  Standout track,  “Prayers to Invoke You,” features jangling acoustic guitars that evoke the Kinks and Peter Sarstedt and sparse, yet frantic percussion.  The vocals are well in front of the music, but still distant and reverb laced.  The blown out production should come as no surprise given that Saulsberry plays bass in fellow Seattle lo-fi outfit Grave Babies.  The two bands just toured together, including a Brooklyn date opening for Ganglians and Xray Eyeballs. Saulsberry has posted quite a few tracks on his SoundCloud site. I think the most interesting are among the newest, hopefully this is a sign of more to come. 

Prayers to Invoke You by Perpetual Ritual

New York-based Lily & The Parlour Tricks reinvigorates classic styles with a modern, sexy edge. Combining captivating retro, doo-wop, and three-part harmonies, playful rhythms, and synchronized dance-clap routines, L&TPT have the tricks of the music trade down to a tee, making them a notable group around town. With tracks such as swinging “Gigalo,” slinky “Apples and a Gun,” and tuneful “The Murder Song,” L&TPT envelop listeners in the sextet’s colorful and mysterious aura. The band will be releasing of their self-titled EP, due out on October 18 at The Deli Magazine’s CMJ Alt Rock Stage at The Delancey. Full ineup here. – Meijin Bruttomesso

In Eula’s "Maurice Narcisse" video, Ninjas in animal masks can’t compete with the band’s punk rock princess/lead singer. The noisy bunch will be participating to CMJ with a performance at Tommy’s Tavern on Friday October 21st with Wild Yaks, Ferocious Fucking Teeth and Ritz Riot – sounds like an insane party… This video was selected to be projected in between bands at The Deli/INDMUSIC CMJ Music Marathon Shows.

Shenandoah Ableman has the rare ability to turn any genre into a voluptuous experience. Comfortable singing in front of styles ranging from German cabaret to doo wop, her quintet Shenandoah and the Night creates sultry, decadent torch songs that work as well on the stage as they do in the bedroom – in particular when you are NOT alone in there. The band’s self-titled debut EP showcases this sensuality with deep confidence through a series of songs steeped in the tradition of American folk, but featuring a very un-American, almost overwhelming, nostalgic power – in the most literal and decadent definition of "romanticism". These songs ("So Fine" and "All The Beautiful Ladies" deserve a honorable mention) make us flirt with "dangerous" thoughts like the fragility of love, the desire for the lost past, the unreachability of perfect happiness, our vain but primary quest for beauty. They might not make us jump or feel happy – but they do make us feel alive. Can you afford to ignore it? – Shenandoah and the Night will be playing The Deli’s Deli Rootsy CMJ Stage on 10.19 at Living Room with Lucius, Sydney Wayser, Reverend John Delore, Ursa Minor and mony others. Full lineup here.

Invisible Days blend gentle atmospherics, FX laden guitars, slithering basslines and appropriate rackety-tackety percussion with a vocal harmony that sets them apart from many other bands devoted to the shoegazer genre. Combining that with confident songwriting that shows thought and precision, and it becomes clear (or less invisible) as to why they’ve grabbed The Deli’s attention soon after releasing their debut single. – See the band live at Lit on 10.19, and read Dave Cromwell‘s interview with the band here.

NYC is architecturally grounded on hidden marvels – the solidarity and suspense echoing over the course of chaos, daily. As though the city hides magical abodes from itself to be rediscovered in fits of refurbishment like that 50 bucks you stashed in a French dictionary. With this in mind, I present to you Vaudeville Park.

In the flesh, Vaudeville Park’s a storefront on the corner of Bushwick and Devoe. White walls alternately adorned with art or vivified with the quintessential light of vehicles passing by night. A succulent baby grand in the corner.

Vaudeville Park is the frenetic Ian Colletti. A labor of love and oracular insight into the future of musical presentation. What transpires here self sustains: artistry is the powerful currency, which is to say, it’s not for profit. Reciprocation between artists, organizers, audience in the name of sublime intervention and community involvement, which is to say, contact between these parties is direct, via a collaborative desire to preserve creative constitution.

The artists and curators working within this space are spectral in a way that only develops inside the rushing core of art for art, even if it requires eating icing in a spacesuit. Art for the sake of not only art but the complications of survival, the revelry of urban stenography, the urgency of creating in the moment. Also, this is happening as part of CMJ. Find a list of contributing artists spanning the gamut of classical composition to room-scale installation to hysterical theatrics, on VP’s website.- Valerie Kuehne

Caged Animals, a relatively new project by Soft Black frontman Vincent Cacchione, creates music that is poppy and infectious, yet slightly unsettling under the surface. The songs weave atmospheric flourishes with electronic quirks, pitch-shifted and distorted vocals, and catchy hooks. Although Caged Animals could easily be described as “chill-wave” for its bedroom-recording aesthetic and penchant for synth lines and electronic drums, there’s more to the music then that. Cacchione isn’t afraid to venture into the odd psychedelic landscape here and there, and some of the songs sound almost alien, haunting the listener with otherworldly vocals and odd, discordant bits of noise. Check out “The Way It Feels to Be Hunted” (embedded here) to get an idea. Caged Animals create some forward-thinking pop music, and will hopefully be released into the wild to find a wider audience in the near future. –Bill Dvorak

Caged Animals will headline at The Deli’s CMJ electronic stage at The Delancey on Tuesday October 18 with Computer Magic, Psychobuildings, Pretty Good Dance Moves, and other awesome NYC electronic artists – full lineup here.