The Beets’ Jaun Walters just came out with this uber lo-fi but rather funny video for ‘Sanity,’ from his recent solo records. Only ladies with a sense of humor will appreciate. The video is said to be a tribute to the late prankster/entertainer Andy Kaufman. See Jaun Wauters at Shea Stadium on July 09.

You know those days you just want to totally flip out without having to explain yourself? Well goddammit… you now have Palm to thank for making it happen for you. Lead singer Gerasimos Livitsanos barely has time to extract her thoughts from the page in the EP’s titular track and opener ‘Ode to Scott’ before the band kicks into high gear. And that’s pretty much what you can expect from the noise-rock quartet. Lots of fuzz, lots of mayhem, tension you can cut with a knife, and plenty to shake the walls apart. Check out their new EP and get your destruction on. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

This band submitted their music for consideration here

We blogged yesterday about Lora Faye, who will be playing our mellow folk bill tomorrow at Spike Hill. While we were "looking her up" we stumbled upon this remarkable video of her single ‘Old Gas Station,’ debuted this past October. Wow, now we can’t wait to see her performance!

For anyone like me who’s been slightly disappointed with the Strokes’ weird new direction, The Rotaries are here for you. An angular band playing a sort of Strokes-meets-REM brand of campus rock, The Rotaries have plenty to get off their chest, and songs like ‘Red Letter Day’ and opener ‘Tomorrow’s Game’ (streaming below) from latest LP ‘Before Leaving,’ will be too much fun for you to realize they’re actually working through some intense therapy sessions too. See the band live when they play The Knitting Factory on July 20. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

The opening night of our NYC B.E.A.F. 2013 at Spike Hill in Williamsburg won’t be a very loud one, showcasing a selection of truly gifted emerging singer songwriters and rootsy acts featuring a gentle sound. A lot of women on this bill, headlined by St. Claire and Wilsen (pictured, Deli Record of the Month last September) and their beautiful dream folk. On similarly ethereal coordinates dwells the trio now known as Basinger (formerly Makeout Room), who will open the show at 7.15pm. Lora Faye will bring a darker vein to the night with her country ballads tinged with jazzy noir elements. Songwriters Lisa Jaeggi (and her new band So So Apropos), sami.the.great, and French import Kiddo, will bring their personal approach to the genre, featuring varying degrees of pop influences.

Times, ticket prices and full fest schedule can be found here.

Featuring 36 emerging NYC artists includiung Spirit Family Reunion (currently on the cover of our Best of NYC print issue), The Stationary Set, Mree, Apollo Run, Manicanparty, Modern Rivals, Cultfever, Beast Patrol and Wilsen, The Deli NYC’s Best of Emering Artists Fest is set to begin on Wednesday June 5 and end on Saturday 06.08 – full schedule here.

We won’t claim we have all the best emerging local artists booked for this fest, but definitely a fair amount of them.

Hope to see you!

The Deli’s Staff

Bluffing is exactly the right way to deliver solid indie rock anthems. Fast, dirty, and as big as possible. This Brooklyn band is a whirlwind of stormy distortion and muddled vocals (Olivia Drusin and guitarist/singer J. Boxer) coming at you from all directions at once. Sorta like NY’s recent locust storm… but much, much prettier. I’m looking forward to more of these tasty little nuggets when the band releases more singles soon from upcoming EP "sugar coated pills of wisdom." – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

This band submitted their music for review here

Many of the tracks on ‘Secondhand Rapture,’ the debut album by MS MR, have already trickled out in a series of hotly-anticipated singles, music videos and on the overplayed trailer for season 3 of HBO’s Games of Thrones (that song is titled “Bones”). So getting twelve big ones in long-player format feels almost like a greatest hits package. The album’s opener, “Hurricane,” is still MS MR’s strongest number. Its forceful soul vocal laments the moment when dreamers have to become, um, well, working stiffs and go make a real living – hopefully not too soon! “Dark Doo Wop” (Chet Faker remix streaming below) is one of Secondhand’s best surprises. A finger-poppin’ ballad here dares to reinvent the girl-group genre by using a dramatic bolero beat to build up the apocalyptically romantic chorus: “This world is gonna burn.” By the time of the album’s closer, “This Isn’t Control,” an illusionless gloom hangs over the entire affair with all the heaviness of deeply-felt experience. No over-singing or long-winded vocal runs here. Just evenhanded soul vocals that also manage to sound inspired. See the band live in NYC at Governors Ball on June 8. – Brian Chidester

“Hello Virginia” is the new video by NYC goth revivalist, I, Synthesist (nee Chris Ianuzzi). The video features weather-worn pedestrians suffering through this year’s oppressive winter, a middle-aged male wearing some kind of steampunk eyeglass contraption and a young blonde punk girl who climbs stairwells looking generally forlorn. There’s also a little girl that appears about 3/4th of the way in, a point at which I truthfully gave up on narrative altogether. Luckily, the actual music from the video was more interesting. A menacing darkwave beat convulses underneath a buzzsaw of synth loops in typical goth fashion. When its gravely-voiced singer croaks out his dramatic exordium to the elusive Virginia, things feel icy and chilly, not unlike the weather. Dark, moreover… like the world. Beware the non-conformist. – Brian Chidester

Mp3 – I, Synthesist : "Hello, Virginia"

Tonight, MidCoast Cares (who also raised money for the relief effort in the 2011 Joplin tornado) presents Rock For Relief: A Benefit for Moore, Oklahoma, which was recently devastated by a tornado.

Doors open at 5:30 and the show starts at 6, beginning with Ghost Town Heart, then She’s A Keeper, Not A Planet, Antennas Up, Beautiful Bodies, and closing out with Cover Me Badd. The event is at KC Live! in the Power & Light District. There are NO presale tickets. General admission is $10; $20 will get you entry, two drink tickets, and access to the VIP Lounge. All proceeds will go to benefit the tornado recovery in Moore through Heart to Heart International. A silent auction will also be held, and the first 200 attendees will receive a buy-one-get-one-free card from Chipotle.

Join the Kansas City music community for a great cause to help our neighbors in Oklahoma. Here’s the Facebook event page.

–Michelle Bacon

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Since we are in an "apocalyptic mood" – see previous post about KNTRLR – we might as well highlight this new Brooklyn band called Columboid, which just debuted the bizarrely unsettling video below – vocals start at minute 3, and the simple fact that we stuck around until then implies we dug what we heard: i.e. a lot of dissonance, a lot of tension, and a lot of hopelessness –  think of an electric, well orchestrated sonic version of Edvard Much’s "The Scream."

The band has sophomore album ‘Monster Vision’ (their second after their 2010 debut) scheduled for release on June 18th. See them at St. Vitus in Greenpoint on June 19th.