It’s always fun to go through The L Magazine’s yearly appointment with the "8 NYC Bands You Need to Hear." We won’t deny that we see this list like some sort of test for us, to see how many of those artists we covered already and how many we missed.
This year we did pretty well – as usual actually – with 6 hits and 2 misses. We abundantly covered in this blog and in our magazine Slothrust (Artist of the Month some time last year), Gondola, YVETTE (Deli NYC Record of the Month back in May 2011), Porches (Record of the Month a few months ago), WET (also a Record of the Month last year and 3rd best emerging NYC band in our latest Year End Poll), and Teen Girl Scientist Monthly (NYC Artist of the Month some time in 2012). So 5 out of 6 were not only covered but also rewarded with our semi-prestigius titles! A self-pat on the back is due right here, right now.
We totally missed in the blog post punk minimalists The Flag and electro rapper Cities Aviv, although our new – and rad – live listings section picked them up here and here. We’ll cover both these artists soon with dedicated posts.