This Saturday (12/2), DC’s alt. rockers Oh So Peligroso take the Red Palace stage for their S/T CD release party. Formed back in 2009 by a group of UMW college friends, Oh So Peligroso mix uber-chant vocals and harmonic driven guitars with rocked and rugged bass lines, very apparent in the track "Suitcase" featured below. Also on the bill is the Laughing Man– so get there early (doors at 8:30) to be amazed. Lifted from the OSP invite: "You better put your 3-D glasses on ’cause we got some holiday shit comin’ straight at ya." Word.

Oh So Peligroso – Suitcase by user4670251

September Deli Artist of the Month Doppelganger play a refreshing brand of rock and roll that is smart, riff-based and with a healthy dose of swagger. R. Francis (guitar), Ryan Oh-No (drums / vocals) and Joey Hamm (bass) seem to draw their inspiration from classic guitar bands of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Their debut EP "Get It Over With Already" is chock full of this vibe. "Breaks My Head" comes at you initially with a start/stop guitar pattern, morphing into something more cohesive. If the verses reference The Strokes, the chorus bursts large like the best 80’s Guitar Hero band. A clever nod is also made to The Beach Boys or perhaps Plastic Bertrand’s "Ca Plane Pour Moi." The ghost of Billy Idol’s "Dancing With Myself" walk hand-in-hand with lyrics stating "but you don’t listen, when I say, hey let’s go." – Dave Cromwell

Tonight at Cameo Gallery, EMEFE will transport its audience out of Williamsburg into a distant place, resonating with Afrobeat sounds, infused with funk, soul and jazz. Phonetically, the pronunciation of the band’s name is M-F-A and according to its members it stands for "Music Frees All." The young guys in EMEFE take that idea to heart with songs like "Free Your Self" and "The Night" that are as groovy as hits from the late James Brown. Hearing and seeing one of EMEFE’s members play the shekere, a West African insturment made from a gourd covered with a net of beads authenticates the experience even more. EMEFE shares the bill tonight with two Latin-influenced bands Spanglish Fly and Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra. – Abigail P. Devora

Brooklynites Aaron Mendelsohn (vocals, guitar), Nick Burleigh (guitar, violin, bass, keyboard, vocals), Mike Drucker (bass, guitar, violin, vocals), and Jesse Bilotta (drums, vocals) collaborate on a pleasantly pop-rock project, The Yes Way. Although active around town and in recording, the multi-instrumental pack has yet to say, “yes,” to an official release date of any type of album – they have a demo out though (which can be listened to and purchased here), and you can always check them out live – they are playing The Delancey on 12.04 and Bowery Electric on 12.09.

Formed in 2009, Neighbors is led by Williamsburg stoop-dweller and former Jacksonknife founder Noah Stitelman. The band’s debut EP "Hooligans" is out on Paper Brigade, and was written and recorded by Stitelman in his Brooklyn apartment. Evan Johnson, Brian Harney, Steph McParty, and Anne Minor join him to create a rich assault of synth and guitar with brooding vintage pop sensibilities, right down to Stitelman’s lyrics about the small failures of daily life. – Read Whitney Phaneuf’s Q&A with Noah here.

Kudos to Here We Go Magic for this video they premiered on Biatchfork (that’s how we’ll start calling the Chicago site after they gave a miserable 6.8 to the best band in the world – Buke and Gass). Anyway, I think it’s the first musical video I see that tackles deeply disturbing issues like death, injury and… the (weird) cycle of life and death – that part is towards the end of the clip, don’t miss it! The band is currently touring Canada.

Jesse Malin, Queens-based singer/songwriter has a new album out, “Love It To Life,” and a new band, The St. Marks Social, by his side, just in time for a UK Tour beginning December 2. The new record’s single, “Burning the Bowery” embodies Malin’s classic rock roots, power chord-driven modulations, uplifting nature, and the Southern rock-twangs of his vocals. Standout track, “Disco Ghetto” is danceable and far from rundown. Joining Jesse Malin and his band on the tour across the pond will be A Million Years. These four Brooklynites’ debut full-length album, “Mischief Maker,” caught Jesse Malin’s ear with their tense harmonies, crisp guitars, and flowing vocals. Notable tracks include bubbly “By Yourself,” sultry “Suspicious,” and explosive “California Smile.” Jesse Malin and The St. Marks Social, and A Million Years play off each other gracefully, and the two will certainly leave the UK with a great impression of New York music. www.jessemalin.com www.myspace.com/amillionyearsmusic – Meijin Bruttomesso

Lo-Fi for choice well before the music became lo-fi with the advent of mp3s, under the pen name East River Pipe, F.M. Cornog has made six albums, all recorded and mixed entirely on a cheap multi-track mini-studio, with a bare minimum of outboard gear. These biting, ruminative micro-masterpieces, reminiscent of the more introspective works of Pavement and Robyn Hitchcock, have won Cornog much critical praise, but never fame and fortune. He has painted his America as a neon-lit wasteland filled with deluded losers, cheats, junkies, ultra-capitalist businessmen, freeway-roaming dreamers, and the tragically fated. "We Live in Rented Rooms", the new album scheduled for release in February 2011, continues Cornog’s journey into America’s dark-lands. It is a world that he has documented in minuscule detail since he first started recording in the early nineties, and one that he knows far too well. As a younger man, Cornog’s appetite for self-destruction was Dionysian. Alcohol, depression, and drugs landed him in the Hoboken train station, until Barbara Powers heard some of his songs, took him in, and provided him with the TASCAM mini-studio that would prove to be his new drug of choice.

In late September, Hurricane Bells released the Down Comes The Rain EP. Schiltz (also longtime front man for Longwave) wrote, recorded, played, and produced the EP entirely himself, this time with backing vocals from Hurricane Bells touring mainstay Ashen Keilyn (of Scout). Hurricane Bells are currently on the road in support of KT Tunstall through December 1st, when they will wrap up the tour with a hometown show at Terminal 5 in New York, NY. The band currently has a bunch of contests happening, including one offering a free pair of tickets to each show daily via Twitter and their Facebook page.

Like baseball and hot dogs or Hulk Hogan and steroids, some things are meant for each other. Brooklyn party rappers Das Racist and alt-hopper Homeboy Sandman prove their pairing is as natural as Texas and tacos on the jovial “I’m Up on That”, a three minute romp of free associative word play over jazzy production. “So Wesley Willis, but we’ll kill it on the charts,” quips Sandman, a comparison more apt than it sounds. Like prime Ghostface “I’m Up on That” manages to channel abstract imagery into a meaningful recording that even a casual listener can appreciate. Check out the song here. – Nick Haycock

Das Racist – Homeboy Sandman

Soft Circle started as a solo project of Hisham Bharoocha, the former drummer of experimental rock bands Lightning Bolt and Black Dice, recently became a duo with the addition of Ben Vida (Town and Country/Singer/Bird Show). Soft Circle’s new work is blissed-out minimal electronic music with sparse arrangements that would fit in with the catalog of Bharoocha’s former label, DFA. Earlier this month, Soft Circle released a new track, "Treading Water" a blast of electronic indie pop full of catchy synth loops and a beat so infectious that although the lyrics are about drowning it’s still incredibly danceable. The song is available on "Shore Obsessed", Soft Circle’s new album on the Post Present Medium label. You can also stream it down here. – Nick Haycock

Soft Circle – Treading Water.

This past summer recording engineer and Delicious Audio contributor Shane O’Connor took six bands of his choice into Monsterland Recording Studio in Brooklyn. Each band recorded one song in one day, and the result is Brooklyn Heat 2010, a compilation featuring up-and-coming Brooklyn acts Shark?, Quilty (top picture), Quiet Loudly, Little Racer, Magnetic Island (in the picture below) and GunFight! The compilation features no-frills indie rock that runs the gamut from rowdy rock n’ roll sing-alongs (Shark?’s “You Ignore Me” and GunFight!’s “I Would Be Your Man”), to dissonant and spacey pop (Quiet Loudly’s “Be My Baby Mama” and Quilty’s “In the Guts”), and infectious, angular post-punk (Magnetic Island’s “Shake the Fog” and Little Racer’s “On The Run”). According to O’Connor, the bands were chosen without a specific theme, but simply because they each offer “exciting live shows, [and] were willing to promote themselves in interesting ways, and were open to collaboration with other artists.” Each song on Brooklyn Heat 2010 compliments the next perfectly, providing for an undeniably fun and engaging listen. And yes, it’s free to download, so go grab these tracks right now.