Deli Readers,

I know, it seems like we put our latest issue out just the other day – but no, we haven’t switched to monthly. It’s just that the fall in NYC is a busy time for us, and with CMJ week and our NYC Synth Expo (linked to BEMF) coming up, there’s a lot to write about.

Here’s our 44th issue of The Deli NYC (one of our finest!). Check out cover band Stolen Jars, they’ll be performing at one of the (several) Deli CMJ 2015 shows!

READ THE DELI NYC’S 44TH ISSUE HERE!

The Deli’s Staff

Deli Readers,

I know, it seems like we put our latest issue out just the other day – but no, we haven’t switched to monthly. It’s just that the fall in NYC is a busy time for us, and with CMJ week and our NYC Synth Expo (linked to BEMF) coming up, there’s a lot to write about.

Here’s our 44th issue of The Deli NYC (one of our finest!). Check out cover band Stolen Jars, they’ll be performing at one of the (several) Deli CMJ 2015 shows!

READ THE DELI NYC’S 44TH ISSUE HERE!

The Deli’s Staff

 

We’re definitely city people, but Son Little‘s new music video for the single "Lay Down" has us longing for a more secluded life with our loved ones. As he shared with Vibe, “I wrote this song lying in bed with my lady, listening to the tea kettle whistle. I think about how complicated our lives are, all the ones and zeros distract us from what we really need and want. Sometimes I just want to take your love and hide.” The track is off his forthcoming self-titled debut album, due out October 16 via Anti-. Son Little will also be headlining Johnny Brenda’s on November 13.Until then, get lost in this video that was directed by Kevin Clark.

If their name gives any indication, The Great Heights Band clearly have set their sights for the skies, playing sweet rock music that hearkens back to the the early 2000s, the era of skate parks and boomboxes. The bass lines are classic, but the key are contemporary, mixing for a radio-ready ensemble. Their new album, Songs in Eastern Standard Timing, is dropping 10/16 and the band is celebrating with a show at Ottobar to boot. You’ll be jumping and dancing from start to finish, so don’t miss it. -Jonathan Goodwin

Many musicians – electric guitarists and drummers in particular – dream of creating an insanely explosive sound, and often look for names that can express that effort. Enter NYC trio Blasteroid, a band that keeps its moniker’s promises in the 20 seconds long, truly blasting intro to their – so far – only single available for streaming, entitled ‘Oaf.’ We can pretty much see the three of them, in awe, while listening for the first time to the finished song through the studio monitors, high fiving each other second later. After the intro, the song settles into a more tranquil psych pop territory, with a gentle, almost childish Barrettesque melody leading to a dreamy chorus drenched in reverb. The contrast – defined by the band as "equal parts ethereal and outrageous" – has the effect to make every section more enjoyable. Now… give us more please!

We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best Psych Rock songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!

NYC’s Gina Turner, besides being an innovative contemporary EDM artist, is also a deejay/host on Sirius XM. Husband Laidback Luke shares side-project Nouveau Yorican with Turner, who recently collaborated with Sweden hitmmaker Style of the Eye too. She’s everywhere! She recently released this jazzy sounding track with Tony Quattro (also a NYC based artist) and will be performing at the upcoming Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival (date to be announced) – Brian Chidester

Astoria rock quintet Side Saddle‘s music video (playing below) for "Legs for Days" (off its July-released EP ‘Young Professional‘) unravels piercing drama in country sun. To cascading guitars and marching drums, the Lauren Tracy-directed clip intriguingly juxtaposes a tryst and a funeral, close-ups of the smiling protagonist and his mistress intercut with those of his true lover staring out from black garb as she and his friends say their final goodbyes. It isn’t until the music-less final scene when the gravitas of the story becomes really deep as the man, awoken from this nightmare, shares a glance with his partner, the hidden infidelity now heartbreakingly revealed. With a story credited to Side Saddle frontman Ian McGuinness, the crisply-filmed piece is not just a compelling visual accompaniment to the track but a searing portrait of ruptured romance. Side Saddle has several shows coming up, including a slot at The Deli’s CMJ Roots Stage at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 on 10.14. – Zach Weg 

 

Cody Farwell’s music reminisces on Japanese RPGs while seemlessly blending elements from his extensive musical past. The multi-instrumentalist has been a part of numerous projects ranging from ’70s punk to reggae dub and Latin jazz, and his induction to the heady electronic collective TeamSupreme as Snorlax has produced countless Cypher mixes with the likes of Kenny Segal, JNTHN STEIN, Preston Walker (Virtual Boy), and Great Dane.

Now, Farwell is unveiled as Goodnight Cody in his label debut Wide as the Moonlight, Warm as the Sun: 16 levels of textured, contrapuntal melodies that perfectly evoke heroic NES adventures and bright-eyed fantasies. Gameboy atmospherics meets Sesame Street jams meets Steven Universe aesthetics — it’s like everything and nothing you’ve ever heard before. Goodnight Cody plays tonight in an 18+ show with Daedelus, Elusive, and Kodak to Graph along with the Low End Theory mainstays Daddy Kev, Nobody, D-Styles, and Nocando. Listen to the featured track "Alone on this Island" below and find his debut album on Daedelus’ label Magical Properties, out now. – Ryan Mo

In their new video for single "Dreamin" – from upcoming LP "Fire In The Hero Building" – Brooklyn garage pop trio Tuff Sunshine sings: “I’ve got lots of dreamin left to do / And all my dreamin includes you,” while the images portray a young boy enjoying the gift of imagination while playing outdoors, alone. Although this sounds very much like a (Lynchian?) metaphor of the life of the average indie musician in the city, Tuff Sunshine’s song is too sweet to corroborate this theory. We are therefore left with a very enjoyable tune an video taking us back to the days when life was still a book full of blank pages waiting to be written. Hopefully, we all have plenty of half written but still promising pages left – because, without a little bit of dreamin’, things get tuff indeed! Tuff Sunshine will be performing at Union Pool on October 17 within the upcoming CMJ Music Marathon.

Loose Buttons are a young NYC based indie rock quartet bringing some sophistication (in the form of danceable grooves and refined guitars lines and melodies) to the gritty sound of the current local rock scene. Their latest track, released just a few weeks ago, is called "Thrill" (brand new video streaming below), and it’s a radio-ready example of the band’s talent. The guitars shift back and forth between garage-rock grit and reverb-heavy echoes, while Eric Nizgretzky’s vocals carry on in an ever-so-slightly distorted way that works well with the head-bobbing rhythms of the drums and bass. The single is the group’s first release since last year’s second EP, "Damage Gallery," but there has been no word on whether another record is in the works. Loose Buttons will be performing on October 15 – 17, at Alphabet Lounge, Fontana’s, and Rock Shop respectively, as a part of the 2015 CMJ Music Marathon. Check them out! – Patrick Wolff