Girl powered synth pop/rock trio New Myths, a band we’ve been following (and booking) since its inception, is about to celebrate the release of their debut LP ‘Give Me Noise‘ with a show at Cameo Gallery on Friday October 17 – you can also catch them during CMJ at Union Hall on 10.21. At first listen, the new material in the album gives the impression of a more driven sound, where distorted guitars match in volume and presence the signature analog synths (like in "Howl" and "The End"). The record also features the noteworthy single "False Gold" from the 2012 self titled debut EP. We are streaming here our favorite new track, the atmospheric ‘Edge of the World.’

Music Bones‘ recently released EP The Scratch Tape ranges from DIY Punk to AniDifrancoesque (that’s a phrase now, I promise). "Tell Me Sweetly" opens the album with disonant guitar riffs that transform from rock to an almost twinkley sound and back. The song "Quarter Afternoon," my personal favorite, begins mid-album. It’s a simple song with bright guitar arpeggios, beautiful, full vocals, and a pleasantly sedating effect. You can catch Music Bones live, Sunday October 19th at Club K in Baltimore, Oct. 21 at The Black Squirrel in DC, and Oct. 25 at The Green Island in DC. –Hannah Brady

“Rolling Stone” magazine declared last year’s Joshua Light Show at NYU’s Skirball Center “the most psychedelic light show of all-time.” It doesn’t mean we necessarily trust their judgment. However, the three-day music and light fest returns to Skirball this October 23-25th, where you can judge for yourself.

LA electro chanteuse Glasser and midwest free-jazz trio Bad Plus play opening night, where the latter is slated to perform Ornette Coleman’s understated 1972 masterpiece “Science Fiction” in its entirety. Television, as well as J. Spaceman & Kid Millions, fill the Saturday night bill (10/25). But it’s the middle show that “The Deli” is most interested in, where NYC psych-folk duo Woods bring their latest song cycle — the appropriately titled “With Light and with Love” — to glow beneath the shimmering colors on Friday the 24th.

For those unaware, “With Light” is Woods’ eighth full-length since its inception in 2006. Mixing a steady diet of Grateful Dead-like jams with indie pop-vocals (think the Shins), the album spreads out into odd new directions this time around. From Bowie-like lyrical couplets to the occasional prog-rock trill, it is the band’s crystalline effort to date. One which is sure to require more than a duo for the stage performance.

As to the Joshua Light Show, its most famous residency came at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East rock club on “freaky Second Avenue,” where from March ’68 ’till it closed in June 1971, Joshua Light produced “Mondrianesque checkerboards, strawberry fields, orchards of lime, antique jewels, galaxies of light over a pure black void and, often, abstract, erotic, totally absorbing shapes and colors.” That’s what the “New York Times” saw, at least. Founder Joshua White came to NYC after graduating from film school at USC in 1965. (Classmate George Lucas stayed on the West Coast and ran experimental light shows at Frank Zappa’s Shrine Auditorium freak-outs of 1966-67.) White & co. re-emerged more recently as lighting designers for the 2008-11 Broadway revival of “Hair.” This latest fest showcases their ephemeral cinema with a well-deserved top-billing. – Brian Chidester

NYC/LA electronic muse Ryn Weaver pretty much lived through what most emerging musicians dream about each time they post a song on Soundcloud: instant fame! We are often suprprised when a song by a new act gets 10k plays – her single OctaHate got over TWO MILLION! (Check out the video below). The next challange for artists lucky enough to have earned some recognition through the web is always to follow up with a live show that can support a longer career in music. Ryn Weaver will be playing Baby’s All Right tonight (10.14); it will be a good opportunity to see where she’s at in that department.

Walking Shapes is the sort of band we would task with converting even the most die-hard dance adverse. Their songs tow that careful line between electronic and instrumental dance pop, and while meticulously programmed still manage to capture the electricity of a live band. Walking Shapes is thus an incredibly fluid band. The songs they play can begin ebullient and bubbly, then take a sudden turn towards the explosively propellant, before exploding into bright and spacey fractals, the sonic equivalent of closed eyed kaleidoscope. The result is songs hopeful and earnest with a broad vision.

Read Emilio Herce’s Interview with Walkling Shapes
See Walking Shapes live at The Deli’s Indie Pop CMJ Stage on Saturday 10.25 at Spike Hill 

Bowieball is an annual, one-day freak-out soiree honoring the king of glam, David Bowie. This year’s edition was hosted at Le Poisson Rouge on Sunday, 10/12 by artist/fashionista/all-around-flaneur Deryck Todd, and featured a diverse array of NYC acts such as DJ Frankie Sharp, the Toilet Boys, Matt Katz-Bowen (of Blondie), Militia Vox, the Vangeline Theater, and Keenan Duffty (among others). "The Deli" recently sat down with Todd to catch-up on the evolution of Bowieball, and to see who’s grabbing who’s ass. Brian Chidester asked Todd a few questions about the event in this interview.

Next week is CMJ week folks! As you may have noticed, The Deli – as usual – has some kind of mini-festival within the festival, with seven stages and about fifty bands booked. Oh, and there’s one more! The provocative, rigorously Japanese female quartet known as Hard Nips will be closing our Garage/Psych/DIY show at Spike Hill on Thursday 10.23 with their… (can we say sexy? ok…) sexy brand of garage rock. Definitely the right way to end a crazy night of music in NYC, they’ll hit the stage just after 1am.

After Septebmer it becomes increasingly difficult for us to check the music that’s sent to us for coverage consideration, but this weekend we found the energy to go through a bunch of them, here’s a bands we feel deserve to be highlighted.

NYC quartet Captain Baby offers forward looking pop/rock, ta times reminiscent of that incredible NYC band that was Soul Coughing ("I Say You" – streaming), at others the more progressive David Bowie albums ("Be Ashamed"). Their full length "Sugar Ox" is a raw cross genre exploration and features a lot of interesting ideas and sonics. 

This band submitted their music for coverage here.

Queens-born folk rock band Hollis Brown has a 1960’s heart powered by the seamless recording techniques of 2014, and we love that they’re keeping that rich, old-timey, American folk sound in the contemporary mix. Their latest release “Gets Loaded” nods at the drug-heavy tunes of the 60s by delivering their own rootsy take of The Velvet Underground’s classic 1970 album Loaded from back-to-front. From its opening “Oh Sweet Nuthin’,” powered by a blues-based lead guitar line, to it’s closing “Who Loves The Sun,” driven by a truly harmonic chorus, the release is worth a good, listen, as it adds beauty to already powerful songwriting. The band is about to start recording a new album and will be touring the UK this Fall, but be sure to catch them live when they’re back in the local rotation. – Jillian Dooley

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

Tei Shi – one of our favorite NYC based electronic artists – just released this single, quite upbeat for what she got us used to. It’s climbing the Hype Machine charts, check it out.

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

Have you ever wonderend if a band releasing a split 7" with an artist that was featured on the cover of The Deli NYC automatically gets them coverage on our NYC blog? (Twisted phrasing!) Well, the answer is yes. The band in question is slacker rock duo Washer, who just released a split single with post hardcore maniacs Big Ups, who graced the cover of The Deli’s Spring issue 2014. We wish we could stream a song from that single but the function isn’t enabled, so we’ll have to settle for this rather entertaining tune that marries punk sonics, post punk melodies and lo-fi attitude, entitled ‘Lady Limp,’ featured in the band’s latest EP ‘Bighead.’ You can see Washer live tonight at Paragon Sports for this benefit show.