After 12 days of voting, the wondrous, female driven, rootsy-pop band Lucius was voted by Deli readers and music fans as The Deli’s Best Emerging NYC Artist of 2011. We’ve been big fans of this group since we first booked them at our B.E.A.F. party in May 2011 – we recommend you to see them live at The Mercury Lounge on January 25, they put together one of the most fun live shows in town.
In the last couple of months we’ve been talking a lot about Stephie Koplan & The Pedestrian, a female fronted pop rock band with tons of potential that recently moved from New England to the NYC area. Their recent video of their power pop single "Jerk!" – inspired to the atmospheres of the TV show "Madmen" – casts singer Stephie as an adorably sassy housewife and was featured by Spinner as their "Video of the Day" in December. They placed second in our fans’ and readers’ poll.
A band we haven’t covered before, Brothers – 3rd in this poll – play Rock’n’Roll drenched in southern twang (and probably also Jack Daniels). The band is currently putting the final touches on their debut full length, but if you are in the mood for an unpretentious and in your face rock party, don’t wait any longer and check them out live – or at least watch this teaser of their single "Real Long Way to Go".
Big kudos also to Futurist and Merrily & the Poison Orchard, respectively 4th and 5th. Here’s the Readers’ and Fans Poll Top 20, full results here.
The overall results of our Year End Poll (including jurors’ and Deli writers’ votes) will be released very soon, stay tuned!
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