New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
Singer-songerwriter Luke Mitchem from Virginia by way of Missouri has just released the second single from his forthcoming 4th album Winter Kissing on the Spring due out Oct. 23. The track "Driving Through Illinois with Josh Ritter" showcases Mitchem’s indie folk soundscape paired with a lyrical tale inspired by a motivating conversation he once had with Ritter.
Check it out below, and catch him live Thursday 10/18 @ the Camel in Richmond, VA.
In a very short time, St. Joseph brothers Radkey has taken the Kansas City area by storm, and beyond. They recently wrapped up a headlining show in Lawrence, just finished a music video in Brooklyn, and played the Afro-Punk Festival. A third of the band’s success is due to Solomon Radke, who pummels the drums with purpose and can show up any veteran drummer. Find out a little more about one of the youngest, most talented drummers on the scene right here!
On The Beat is typically brought to you by Sergio Moreno, but has been overtaken this week by editor Michelle Bacon. This weekly interview features some of the many talented drummers in the area.
Squirting little doses of filth on a dirty canvas, the mOrgans are out to prove that obscene marries many colours beyond the obscure, violent ends of the rock spectrum. There’s glamorous, there’s good old swinging rock&roll, there’s a stubborn blues, and it’s by playfully pasting their phallic rock songs over enticing loops and pleasing patterns that the trio manage to turn ‘Kentucky Fried Semen‘ or the ‘Texas Hot Link’ into friendly hooks you’ll get the hang of in no time. That thing the Cramps did so well, topped wth a coat of ridiculous. Hailing from Brooklyn, The mOrgans are that new little pill to get the blood pumping across the scene; and if you like what you hear, you can go get nasty with them next Saturday, October 13th at King Killer Studios for an intimate ‘Enter the mOrgans’ EP release party – check their Facebook page for more details.
We can finally announce The Deli’s CMJ 2012 shows! All the links to the bands’ music profiles are here. We booked 82 bands!!!
The Deli’s Staff
The shortest day of the year may not be until December, but here in New York, the nights can get awful cold starting as early as October. In the immortal words of Eddard Stark: winter is coming. If you need a break from the dropping temperature, then allow the ever-charming Jaymay to warm your heart. Starting October 26th, NY based singer-songwriter Jamie Seerman will bring her musical project back home for a residency at Rockwood Music Hall’s Stage 2. She will be playing every Friday through November 16th. Listen to Jaymay’s latest EP, “10UNDER2,” streaming below. – Josh Johnson
Photo Source: Witch Gardens
Witch Gardens will be hitting the stage at the Rendezvous this weekend along with Hive Dwellers, Craig Extine, and the Exiles.
The quartet’s last EP R-I-P came out in April of this year, a three song bundle of jagged charm and cheer. Their music is refreshingly melodic and graceful without nosediving into twee pop’s precarious land of the saccarhine.
Lead track "Aunt Shae/Mean Colleen" is a natural spotlight grabber for the release, with its multi-faceted songwriting and suprisingly driving grooves. The start of the song begins as a softly materializing dream, harkening comparison to Sung Tongs-era Animal Collective or Women. The drums gallop; the guitarwork hastens; the vocals chime sweetly and matter-of-factly.
The closing song "Bakers Dozen" is more deliberate in its pacing. It possesses the twang of older Modest Mouse material while retaining their ’60s sunshine pop clarity. An enjoyable, lo-fi reverie through and through.
Doo-wop harmonies meet fuzzy rock with moments of freak folk affinity. In otherwords, ignore the catch-all words and just give them a prompt listen. Expect a genuine smile to pop up in no time.
Visit the Rendezvous this Sunday, October 7th to see the show for $7 with doors at 7pm. This is the venue’s first all-ages show, ever! Listen to "Aunt Shae/Mean Colleen" below and carry onto their bandcamp to hear the rest. You can purchase a copy of the 7” record over at Waterwing Records for $7. So many sevens; I wonder if they would conclude that, in the fabled words of the Pixies, "God is seven."
– Cameron LaFlam
DC based indie pop duo PLOY (Gil Wojcik & Justin Victoria) had been in other bands togther over the past few years, but decided to manoeuvre their sound into the electronic atmosphere back in March. The result was truly eclectic and can be heard in their self-titled EP, and has undoubtedly garnered the attention of fans who voted them band of the month. We wanted to find out more about these guys, so got a hold of Gil who tells us here about the Starbucks think-tank, the upcoming SxSW fest, and planning a DC gig this month! Now onto the interview…
Check out their latest single "Fool" below!
The Record Machine has released the new video from Making Movies, "Hangover Blues." The video gives us a snippet of the band’s exhilirating, sexy, costumed live shows and highlights some of the best features of Kansas City. Watch it for cameos from KC musicians Mark Lowrey and Hermon Mehari, and appearances from venues like CrossroadsKC at Grinder’s, Czar, The Union, The Cigar Box, Gusto, Mutual Musician’s Foundation, and YJ’s.
For a short time, you can also download Making Movies’ EP Aguardiente for free at the link below.
Check out the band’s upcoming tour dates:
10/4 Columbia, MO – The Bridge
10/11 Chicago, IL – Subterranean
10/12 North Liberty, IA – The Palms
10/13 St. Louis, MO – Plush w/Los Lobos
10/14 Dayton, OH – Blind Bob’s
10/16 Brooklyn, NY – The Rockshop / Mecca Lecca & The Record Machine CMJ Party
10/20 Burtonsville, MD – Blue Beetle Rock Bar
If you don’t happen to be in any of these locations, be sure to head to recordBar on Saturday, October 26, where the band will be playing and celebrating Dia de los Muertos. DJ Brent Tactic will also be spinning tunes. Facebook event page.
–Michelle Bacon
White Girl is:
Martin Bush: Vocals/guitars/keys
Skylar Mcclun: Keys/guitars/vocals
Matt Epstein: Guitars/vocals
Nick Organ: Drums
EP Two will be released tomorrow, October 5. You can catch White Girl at the album release party on Friday, October 25 at The Union with special guests The Atlantic and Sphynx. The band will be touring the East coast this fall, and you can find their tour dates at http://www.whitegirl.org.
—Eric Fain
| Eric plays a mean bass for The Atlantic. |
—Mike Tipton
| Mike is a KC native that enjoys new music and playing with his band, Molly Picture Club. He also enjoys people watching and documentaries by Ken Burns. |
The land that gave us Gotye and Kimbra has now unleashed up-and-comer pop crooner Lips. From Auckland, New Zealand to Brooklyn, NY, singer/songwriter Steph Brown knows how to take a slick, sexy groove and work her voice through sometimes failed, and more times unrequited, relationships. Through a candy-coated alto not unlike Imogen Heap or Frou Frou, there’s a superficial cutesiness you’ll get fooled by, until you start really listening closely. New single ‘We Don’t Have Much Time’ sounds fun enough, but there’s an abiding sadness here as Brown deals with an infatuated love doomed to end. But then, these New Zealanders seem to have a way of dancing off any pain. Look for Lips new EP ‘Look, Listen’ available October 25. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)
Those of you that have met singer Marta DeLeon already know it doesn’t take long before you feel like you’ve known her for years. For those of you that haven’t met her, this is the feeling you’ll get after checking out her new band The Meaning of Life. A three piece made up from the spirit of Jesus and the Mary Chain, The Cult, and pretty much any band that landed on the soundtrack to ‘Lost in Translation,’ Meaning of Life celebrates the people you meet along your path… and cranks their stories up to a percolated boil. Mixing shimmering gems written by guitarist (and Chilean explorer) Christian Gallardo with Marta’s transcendent soprano (and love of cats), newest single Laura V. (off new EP ‘Play Fuego’) will have you leaping up into the air ready to proclaim the answer to everything… or at least have you leaping up into the air for the hell of it.
See the band when they play with Black Salad and Wojick on October 13, at Fort Useless. – Mike Levine (@goldnuggets)
