A band eight years in the making, Brooklyn’s Twiga is obviously not in a hurry. Although complex in both structure and lyrics, their music is catchy indie pop full of lazy but beautiful melodies a little reminiscent of Grandaddy, minus the whacky synths – like in streaming track "Girls."  Check out their latest EP,  "Fledglings" and – if you dig their sound – don’t miss them at the upcoming CMJ Music Marathon, they are an official band!

Mixing a distinct melodic flair with the sonic bombast of new techno, NYC emerging EDM artist Julia Govor pushes dancing and fun to the very edge, reveling in hallucinogenic textures that suggest not sleeping is its own form of dreaming. Julia will be performing on November 5 at Output within the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival. Check out her break out single "A Regret," cooked up in collaboration with London based DJ Rashid Ajami.  – Brian Chidester

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

Brooklyn singer Sonia Kreitzer, formerly of Sonia’s Party, has recently moved to her new home in Los Angeles as Doe Paoro, her soul/R&B alter ego. It’s cause for celebration — Paoro has a new album that’s about to be released, and LA locals get an exclusive chance to hear it live first.

After (out September 25th via ANTI- Records) has been a three-year effort with producers Just Vernon (Bon Iver) and BJ Burton, a definite maturation of Paoro’s cabin-fevered opus, the sublime debut Slow to Love. Torch songs like the latest single "Nostalgia" embroiders synthwave textures with candid, disconsolate lyrics. With a voice that’s been compared to Lykke Li, Zola Jesus, and James Blake, Paoro connects memorable pop hooks to deeper musings on seasonality and the cyclical nature of time.

"The record is a meditation on time, and its illusions — the way each ending is simultaneously a beginning; its ability to speed up, drag or stand still; contract or expand a moment — and the only awareness of what it had been coming retrospectively, or After."

Doe Paoro is holding an exclusive free release party for her label debut After tomorrow night at the Dirty Laundry, touring North America soon after with Little May and Givers. RSVP to celebrate with Paoro, and listen to RAC’s remix of "Nostalgia" below. – Ryan Mo

BAEB RXXTH’s first single “Gutter” blew up their Soundcloud page with over 15K hits. Now, with the release of “STRP,” the duo, consisting of vocalist Nasimiyu and co-producer Devon C. Johnson, once again aim their Trap pedigree directly at your hips. Nasimiyu, who won critical acclaim in 2014 from Vogue, Nylon, Afropunk, and SPIN for her solo project “Dirt,” pairs silky vocals with playfully clever lyrics while Devon C Johnson conjures 808-laced production that thumps with a diamond veneer just south of saccharinity. Hot on the spiked heels of NY Fashion Week, “STRP” demands the industry to “Take it off: your apathy, your suit of armor… I wanna see what’s beneath your fashion sense.” Their album OMW is out 11/13.

Sitting on a porch with a cold glass of lemonade at sunset, one could hardly imagine it getting any better. However, with the classic bluegrass twang of Baltimore-based The Manly Deeds, perfect somehow manages to get better. Capturing the old-timey vibes of backwater jug bands, The Manly Deeds is polished yet authentic and invokes woodsy feelings of being at home. They have mandolins, banjos, kazoos, harmonicas, and sheer talent at keeping their music fresh. You’ll find this fantastic folk foursome at Baltimore Folk Fest, 10/24, at Ottobar. The festival is driven by community support and needs your help! Check out their Indiegogo for some awesome sponsorship opportunities. -Jonathan Goodwin

The debut album from Real life Building’s, a project founded by Baby Mollusk’s Matt van Asselt, is a collection of folk-tinged indie-rock songs, with ever-so-slight hints of punk, that was recorded over the course of "four days on a porch and in a barn in Maine." The music on "It Snowed" certainly seems to reflect the simplicity and pleasantness of its recording location. Van Asselt’s voice on songs such as "Your Toothbrush" and the opening track, "In The Sky Today," emanates an air of serentiy over the laid-back instrumentals, and manages to do so even when the energy of the rest of the band rises on songs like "Thaw" (streaming below). The lyrics themselves sound like an experiment in stream-of-conciousness songwriting, meandering through a series of seemingly mundane developments that are presented in such a delicate and wistful manner that they become intriguing and even compelling. The record is currently available on Bandcamp and as a cassette through Mt. Home Arts, which Van Asselt helps run. You can check out Real Life Buildings on October 2nd when they’ll be performing at Baby’s All Right. – Patrick Wolff

Do you yearn for the days when rock n’ roll ruled the airwaves? When riffs were as big as the hair on the heads that wrote them? If so, then New York’s The Tye Trybe might be just what you’re looking for. Born out of the South Bronx and Spanish Harlem, this self-described rock and soul trio brings a raw power that harkens back to the blues-steeped music of artists like Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. The group’s debut EP, "Word is Born," was released just over a year ago, and, while it runs a bit on the short side as far as EPs are concerned (its 4 tracks go just over the 10 minute mark), it packs a big punch. The opening track, "Shine Them Shoes" (streaming below), kicks off the record with an intense and distorted blues riff that leads into the head-banging attack of the drums and Joseph Hernandez’s gritty vocals. The energy of the group never relents over the course of the next three songs, and their rock and roll spirit is both infectious and fun to listen to. The Tye Trybe currently has no scheduled shows, but they’re definitely a band to keep your ear on. – Patrick Wolff

For guitarist/vocalist Gregory Cole of Crescendo, summer’s been a windfall of great opportunities — his band went through a lineup change that has positively impacted their live sound, slayed the second night of Echo Park Rising, and threw down the third iteration of the DreamGaze Festival, playing out to Los Angeles and San Francisco crowds.

2015 is drawing to a close, and it’s still uncertain if we’ll see Crescendo’s sophomore album release this year. But for those of you who missed out this summer, you’re in luck: hear the five piece’s brand of cerulean dreamgaze at two back-to-back shows for free! Crescendo are up tonight at the local pub Lot 1 with Littlest Sister (acoustic instrumental), The Bees and Bones (garage blues), Wild Year (synthpop), and touring Seattle band Pitschouse (dreampop). They’ll also perform at Harvard & Stone’s on Wednesday with new talent Glasz and Nashville-blooded headliner Reno Bo. Get tight and dance with them: listen to "Gatsby" from Crescendo’s debut album Lost Thoughts. – Ryan Mo

New York rock band Mainland‘s latest single "Not As Cool As Me" (streaming below) off forthcoming debut album ‘Night Trials’ is an unabashed screw-you to a former lover. Excitingly mixing the nerd rock of Weezer and the rebel punk of The Clash, the guitar-fuzzed track refreshingly bats away the remorse or melancholy that attends many songs about broken romances in order to burn a sure, hot anger. Frontman Jordan Topf’s rattling voice itself makes the song distinguishable, perhaps elevating it from a break-up track to a war cry about intimacy. Mainland plays the Music Hall of Williamsburg on 9.29. – Zach Weg – photo by Rachel Cabitt

Here it is folks, the full schedule of The Deli’s CMJ Music Marathon 2015 Showcases!

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The Deli NYC’s staff.

No Regular Play is comprised of two musicians that were strongly drawn to the flexibility of electronic music; Greg Paulus (a Manhattan School of Music alumni) and Nick DeBruyn, pulling from their inspirations (which include J Dilla and John Coltrane, among others) have created music that defies categorization. In addition to performing live around the world, the duo released their latest EP, "Too Dramatic," in 2014. Maintaining a quality suitable for both your living room and the dance floor, their music offers hypnotic synth grooves, minimal lyrics, and instrumentation that surprises the ear with every beat change and trumpet croon. The band will be touring Europe in October – Isabel Rolston

On Tuesday Brooklyn-to-LA’s Ghost Pavilion is hosting a show at the La Cita in Downtown Los Angeles. The band’s synth-rich, lo-fi atmospheric sound started as the side project of James Higgs, multi-instrumentalist of Brooklyn’s cozy dreampop foursome Spanish Prisoners. Two previously earmarked bands will start the show off: Grave School and Last Canyon. Both have released new EPs over the summer — the "Grave School" EP hummed ’80s alt-rock cool, while "gold, sight and silver" featured a loftier sound than Last Canyon’s debut. Psych-pop duo Inspired & the Sleep drives up from Oceanside to support at 10:00pm, too.

Grave School is on at 8:30pm — the beer’s cheap and happy hour’s until nine so of course this is going to be a 21+ gig. With free admission. – Ryan Mo