Joseph Chilliams has released a new single called "Snow Cones". This is the fourth single of 2022 from this prolific Pivot Gang member.
You can catch Chilliams performing with Pivot Gang at Metro on November 26th.
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Alex Banin “Halfway”
Chicago native Alex Banin has released a new single called "Halfway".
This is the first new music from the now LA based singer since the release of her debut EP "Did I Imagine" last year.
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Elijah Berlow “Put out Fires” EP
Singer/Songwriter Elijah Berlow recently released his debut EP, "Put out Fires".
The EP’s lead single is called "Friends in Distant Galaxies" and is accompanied by the beautiful created video courtesy String and Shadow Puppet Theater.
The album release event will take place on November 8th at Golden Dagger.
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Pivot Gang “Aang”
Pivot Gang has released a new single called "Aang". This is the work of Joseph Chilliams, Saba, MFnMelo, and Frsh Waters.
The group will be performing at Metro on November 26th to honor the fifth anniversary of John Walt Day.
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Fran “Limousine”
Fran has released the latest single, "Limousine", from their forthcoming sophomore album, Leaving, which is due out via Fire Talk Records on January 20th. The new single is accompanied by the Reilly Drew directed video below.
This is the project fronted by the talented singer/songwriter Maria Jacobson. For this album she enlisted the help of Brian Sulpizio, Bret Koontz, Jake Acosta, Ashley Guerrero, Macie Stewart, Whitney Johnson, and more.
You can catch Fran at Golden Dagger on November 16th with Bloomsday.
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Elizabeth Moen “Wherever You Aren’t”
Elizabeth Moen has released the latest single and title track, "Wherever You Aren’t", from her forthcoming album which is due out on November 11th.
“This song is about coming back to a place you know someone from your past will be,” Moen says. “As good as it would be to run into them, striking up a conversation would only strike up old pain. Sometimes the best thing is to just smile and keep trying to move forward. Wherever you are, wherever you aren’t, that’s okay.”
You can help Moen celebrate the release of the album at the Hideout on December 9th with Free Range.
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Maya Ruth unveils debut solo single “bell jar”
photo by Vincent Schaffer
It may be a controversial position to hold especially amongst all the One Directioners out there watching with growing dismay as Harry Styles racks up number-one hit songs and Grammy noms (and to think he was expected to be the next AJ McLean!) thus making a 1D reunion ever more unlikely by the day…
…but boy band stans be damned The Deli Inc. fully endorses the efforts of band-affiliated musicians who choose to explore side projects and/or solo projects seeing as how we can’t imagine a world without the Tom Tom Club or the Breeders or Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes’s criminally underrated solo album or George Harrison’s early solo work or the Postal Service or Run the Jewels (hell, even Dee Dee Ramone’s rap album had it’s moments!) and besides the more musical seeds sown the better the odds of a good musical harvest…
…and I’m guessing Maya Ruth concurs because despite playing guitar in the up-and-coming NYC outfit known as Homade (a band already featured in the Deli no less!) she recently put out her debut solo single “bell jar” (well, ok, she’s already released a short vibey instrumental “ditmars blvd” named after the Astoria thruway but this is her first full-on song) and whereas if “bell jar” were a Homade song I’d expect to be a whimsically-satirical-sing-songy-Seussian tale of a high-school classroom science experiment gone awry…
…but Maya Ruth instead goes full on possessed-by-the-ghost-of-Sylvia-Plath with lyrics about how “in our minds we scream alone” seeing as “ this is life and not a song / in life nobody sings along”…
and instead of Homade’s Au Pairs meets Slits meets Flipper meets Josie Cotten on a blind date with Avril Lavigne kinda vibe, Maya Ruth goes for more of a Superunknown-era Soundgarden meets Julie Cruise meets Dum Dum Girls meets Broadcast meets Elliott Smith out on a date with Alice In Chains in "Nutshell" mode vibe and I hope you’ll excuse my when-X-meets-Y-meets-Z Tourettes syndrome…
…so in other words we’re talking a heavy-psych-laced-melancholic-etherial-slow-jam with a pretty sweet outro solo that’ll have you doing your best face-grimacing air guitar routine and should Homade as an entity decide to go all in on the side projects I’m hoping they’ll “pull a KISS” and put out one solo album a piece all to be released on the same day (except with far less filler!) because if it produces even one “New York Groove” or heck even a head-scratching, left-field Disney cover it’ll all have been worth it. (Jason Lee)
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Joshua Virtue “RAMA”
Joshua Virtue of Free Snacks and UDABABY recently released his third solo album, RAMA. Virtue does it all on this album, but is assisted on two tracks by Skech185 (vocals), Lyn Rye (bass), and Brianna Tong (Cordoba) (vocals).
Virtue is currently on tour with NNAMDÏ, and this is a pairing that may just define the future of Hip Hop in Chicago.
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Modern Wing “No Better Love”
Indie Pop duo Modern Wing are back with a new EP called "No Better Love". This is the for new music from the duo of Michael Mazza and Emily Quinn since their debut back in 2018.
This is catchy Indie Rock with a touch of dream pop, and heavy nods to the early ’90’s.
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The Nancy Downs “Twisted”
The Nancy Downs (of Club Drugs) has released a haunting, Pet Sematary inspired, single called "Twisted".
This is her second single of 2022, and a perfect track for this time of year.
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Paul Moody “By Your Side”
Singer/Songwriter Paul Moody has released his latest album, By Your Side.
Moody relocate to Woodstock, New York back in 2020, but we will always remember his time in the Chicago scene.
This new album feels like it has been born of the woods he now finds himself surrounded by and exploring.