We like ArpLine a lot – that’s why we invited them to play our CMJ party at Spike Lee a few weeks ago. There are traces of early MGMT, but mixed with Kraut Rock and Post Punk influences, creating a feeling of club basement badass mixed with synthesizers, distorted guitars and dance jam goodies. ArpLine’s set to release their debut full-length “Travel Book” in early 2011. For a taste, listen to the upcoming record’s first single, "Fold Up Like a Piece of Paper", one of the most tense and cathartic tunesyou may find yourself dancing to. Please do that at Glasslands on 11.17, as the band will be playing with other Deli favorites like The Big Sleep, Chappo and Red Wire Black Wire. – read Vann Alex’s interview with the band here.

This new Chromeo video really got my attention for some reason, but then at the end I didn’t really understand it. Why are all the police women mad at the guys? Because they went in the female section of the police-sauna? I mean they weren’t that outraged when they saw them there… Does the police have private spas? Dudes, i have no time to watch it again, this video is just a "Hot Mess". Anyway, the band hit it pretty big this year, with their dancey tunes inspired to the ex-uncool decade that’s cool again (the Eighties). The band is currently touring Europe and Australia – they’ll be back in North America with an extensive set of dates in early 2011.

NICKCASEY is a solid folk-rock musical partnership between Brooklyn singer/songwriters Casey Spindler and Nicholas Webber. Backed by bassist Tim Luntzel (Rosanne Cash, Bright Eyes) and drummer Dan Rieser (Norah Jones, Marcy Playground) the band is set to release the debut album "Can’t Reason Through Love" with a show at The Living Room, where videos for the songs “Medicine” and “Bandages” will be also premiered. The date is 11.21

Sick of frontmen lacking stage presence, making you question if they even enjoy their own music? Francis Farewell Starlite may be the cure. Fellow scenemaker and Cantora Records labelmate, William Johnson of Gordon Voidwell, once said in a Deli interview that Starlite “is easily the most impressive dancer I’ve played a show with.” A quick search on YouTube renders numerous live videos of him showing off some sweet dance moves, opening for no-big-deal acts Drake and MGMT. Starlite heads Francis and the Lights, a band that successfully fuses funk, soul, country and electropop. His malleable voice that often soars into falsetto ties these often opposing forces together. To get an idea of this conflicting yet satisfying sound, think of the best possible result of a Prince and Phil Collins collaboration. The band has a good amount of cred as they can count Kanye West and Drake as fans. They covered West’s “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” which was posted on the artist’s notoriously ridiculous blog last year, and the band not only opened for Drake earlier this year, but Starlite also helped produced “Karaoke” off of his latest album, “Thank Me Later.” Bring your dancing shoes and head over to Terminal 5 on November 17 to catch Francis and the Lights open for Brit synthpoppers La Roux. – Nancy Chow

This Saturday, DC’s experimental indie rockers, the Vita Ruins, return to their hometown (at the Red Palace,) after a couple months of shows up and down the east coast.  Their first LP, A Day Without A Name, (released in March), is hands down one of the best albums of the year, so expect to be shaken to your knees with gorgeous tracks like "Coffin Dodgers" and "I Was Hoping That Our Stardust Was In Someway Connected." Recently, they’ve let loose a demo of a new tune to be featured on their upcoming EP to be released in early 2011.  Super excited over here! (photo credit Colleen Vivori)

  The Vita Ruins – The Towns (Demo) by thevitaruins

Droney, dark electronic project Warm Ghost is the brainchild of musician Paul Duncan. After releasing a debut EP, Claws Overhead, on the label Geographic North on May 11th, 2010, Warm Ghost has now signed with Partisan Records, where they will be releasing an expanded version of the Claws Overhead EP, with four additional songs. The band is already recording a follow-up full-length to be released in 2011.

Psych-Folk lovers may want to Dylan Trees tonight at Molly Malones. The band released The Charlie Horse EP in late 2008, opened for Echo and The Bunnymen at SXSW 2009, and In 2010, they were invited to contribute to Beat LA, a charity compilation of covers that will include contributions from No Age and Crystal Antlers. Dylan Trees offered up a glacial reworking of Kathy Smith’s Topanga. The upcoming full length release Victoryville is due for release later this year. On the bill also out of towners Kris Gruen, Captain Danger and Son Ark & Coyote.

The Young Friends – the rock group with the second most generic name ever after "The The" – ise a fun party band that recently relocated from Phoenex to Brooklyn. So far the Big Apple treated them well: they played this year’s NYC PopFest, and got blogged by Brooklyn Vegan like… 2 hours after they moved here  (something that will surely irritate many long time NY based artists).
Their story actually bears surprising similarities with the one of NYC’s own beach boys The Drums, a band that’s been very supportive with them (Holiday Records, run in part by Jacob of The Drums, released YF’s first single) and with whom they seem to have a lot in common also on a musical level: fast paced, bouncy rhythms + ultra catchy melodies + sparse, simple arrangements + preference for clean guitar tones + alto male vocals. The Young Friends are actually very young (the core duo is 17 years old) and surely talented, and they have plenty of time to work on their sound in a more personal direction – before they’ll have to change the band name… I mean, I don’t think anybody over 25 would wanto to play in a band with that name, right? The band will play Glasslands tonight with Warm Ghost and Grand Children.

Long Island, New York’s Exemption has done more than mature their sound on their sophomore full-length, and third self-released disc, Public Cemetery Party. Each of the nine tracks not only differs uniquely from one another but sets the band far apart from the current trends of today’s rock and metal bands. The songs are a kaleidoscope of musical styles: thick stoner metal mudslides slam head on into psychedelic landscapes; antehemic pop hooks give way to fiery surf-rock riffs, and crusty blues jams become violent exercises in aggressive funk. The first track “Hyperspiral” is a perfect example of this, moving seamlessly from Mastodon & Torche-esque riffage to euphoric melodies and hooks reminiscent of Rubber Soul. Like Torche, Exemption is not afraid to combine spine-cracking heaviness with bubbly pop-hook sweetness to create moods not often tapped into by new bands. Public Cemetery Party goes on to demonstrate the power trio’s skills as musicians. Their progressive side has earned them comparisons to The Mars Volta, Rush, and King Crimson, but this musical ability combined with their sense of humor at times is more in the vein of Frank Zappa. The band is currently touring the north part of the East coast – they’ll be back in NYC with a show at matchless on 12.15. Stream their album for free here. – (as posted in The Deli’s Open Blog – post your band’s entries, videos, and Mp3s here).

The Americans, who are New Yorkers by way of many states, produce a smooth sound that channels piano-driven pop, British Invasion psychedelia, and the delicateness of easy-listening. The band’s new “White EP” opens with a gospel -tinged, elevating “Try (Nobody Wants To),” featuring Daniel Merriweather and sampling Jackie Wilson’s “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher." “The Antidote” and “Not Still in Love” add doo-wop to the mix and are followed by “Diamond,” which intertwines twinkling piano chords and elongated country twangs. “Rooftop Love” alternates between soulful multi-vocal harmonies and call and responses with hymn-like cadences. The Americans will be headlining Rockwood Music Hall this Friday, November 12 for the release of their "White EP" and the music video for "Requiem," the album’s first single and final track, which showcases Sean Lennon. The official celebration begins when The Americans hit the stage at midnight. – Meijin Bruttomesso