Doveman is one of the artists who best incarnates the Deli-invented genre of "Mellow Core" – see our Top 300 mellow Core chart here. His songs are too slow and moody to be affiliated with the simple "Pop" genre, but too sophisticatedly poppy to be categorized under the "Singer Songrwriter" label. One thing is out of doubt though, they are mellow – very mellow for that matter, but with an edge. Now, isn’t "core" a word that has come to express some kind of edge? There you go then, Mellow Core! (Way better than Soft-Core that kinda porny…). The bird man is actually in very good company in the Mellow Core NYC "niche" – featuring other incredibly talented artists we love like Lia Ices, Chris Garneau, Dark Dark Dark, and Twin Sister.
Doveman just announced that he will be taking part to "The Burgundy Stain Sessions" at Le Poisson Rouge, a monthly series of collaborative concerts featuring Doveman and friends. These shows will be a forum for the artist and his friends to try out new material, showcase new bands, explore new collaborations, and drink. Each month there will be a different set of guests (although there will be plenty of repeat performers) a completely new show, and as the series goes on, expect to see not just other musicians, but writers, filmmakers, visual artists and more.
P.S. By the way, while I was writing this blurb for some reason I ended up Googling "Mellow Core" to discover that… Reverb Nation now has it among their genres!!! Not only, there is a website called "mellowcore.com"; a band on PureVolume.com says that "they helped pioneer the latest musical genre, Mellow Core" – say what? There’s even a band called "Mellow Core" – although they say they are a mellow punk band – that’s no "mellow core" according to the inventors of the genre, punks!