New York transplants Barnaby Bright has a lot to look forward to this month. The Brooklyn-via-Kansas married duo of Nathan and Rebecca Bliss will not only release their second full-length album, “The Longest Day” on October 23, but just a few days prior are set to compete in NPR’s Mountain Stage Songwriting Contest at Lincoln Center on October 20. Their music is traditional folk centered on intense melodies and Rebecca’s mature, regal vocal style. Barnaby Bright, a medieval term for the summer solstice, will celebrate “The Longest Day” release at Joe’s Pub on October 23 after competing against the 11 other regional finalists for the NPR songwriting contest.Check out the brand new video for the song "Old Coats" here.  – Devon Antonetti

Of all bands you’ll praise for putting a new spin on the old, Foxygen stands out as the wildest recent answer to our post-everything inferiority complex. Where many have tried to bridge the gap between past and future, these two guys are just dancing in it, carelessly, cooking up from scratch some wicked psychedelic potions to transport today’s twenty-somethings into their romanticised fantasies of a glamorous, hedonistic past. Their album ‘Take The Kids Off Broadway’, released in August via Jagjaguwar, played it just right; it dove head first into baby boomers’ turf, passing Shangri-Las, Stones, Lennon, Velvet, Roxy Music and more, and carved along the way a niche where ‘old’ and ‘new’ are anything BUT mutually exclusive – out of which came this deliciously retro-fitted DIY extravaganza, paying playful tribute to the 60/70s rock&roll circus whilst creating something both unique and fun. Foxygen just released the track streaming below from their upcoming album to be released in January 2013, and will be co-headlining our "Mostly Psych" stage at Pianos during the CMJ festivities with previous Deli cover bands Snowmine and Ava Luna, and also other noteworthy non NYC artists like Hundred Waters and Murals at Pianos on Friday, October 19th. – Full details about The Deli’s CMJ show schedule can be found here. Tickets for the Pianos shows can be purchased here. – Tracy Mamoun

Lord knows it’s not easy to start a record label these days. But you could start one for worse reasons than as a way to both immortalize your cat and release singles from Natureboy at the same time. This seems to be the logical explanation behind Kevin Serra’s new Bleek Records. Containing an intimate set of heart-on-sleeve artists including Natureboy, Eden Sela (pictured), Cloud Seeding and Heart of Hearts, the label is a home for many of the musical misfits striking a unique path distinct from obvious kinds of representation.

But don’t take my word for it. Check out the label’s new compilation streaming below and download a fantastic set of songs, many of which appear exclusively here. It’s got tracks from Masterface, House of Wolves, my personal fave (for any fan of TV on the Radio) Two Twins, and lots of other stuff your friends probably don’t know about yet. – Mike Levine

“To A City I Have Known” opens Sons Of Great Dane’s newest release You Can’t Lose It All, All At Once. It begins with an up-tempo drum beat and throbbing guitars that almost instantly drag out my favorite pastime: nostalgia. I’m eighteen again, I’m on a road trip, and all I want to do is drive and let my mind wander. I know already that this album is a soundtrack to those moments.

–Megan Zander

Megan fronts ProgPop band Dream Wolf. Loves her cat, scootering, and dancing. Hates horses.

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Jason Brody is a man full of contradictions. Born to deaf parents, his music is a melodic landscape as rich as Jeff Buckley’s vocabulary. A Brooklynite for years, his music is frequently mistaken as belonging to the west coast. For someone who staged his own death in order to expand his palette past a strict ‘singer-songwriter’ brand of guitar playing, the man who now fronts this band At Sea explores all these rich complexities throughout his upcoming debut full-length ‘A New Machine.’

Sometimes angry, sometimes full of joy, Brody always reaches his target with a direct earnestness frequently lacking from Brooklyn’s rock. Maybe that’s why he’s often mistaken for an import. Catch him at his album release party this Thursday 10.04 at The Bowery Electric at 8:30 pm. Streaming below, the band’s preview single from the upcoming album.

If you haven’t seen (the)medicine theory recently, or at all, here’s a quick primer: for quite some time, this experimental noise-rock band played upon a well-earned reputation for scaring the bejeezus out of unsuspecting audiences with their hyper-aggressive and antagonistic approach to music, daring those in attendance to endure their onslaught (a challenge this reviewer is proud to say he completed on more than one occasion). With the release of their new EP, What The Fuck Are You Lookin At, Jeff Irvine and Tyson Schroeder are still trying to take control of your soul, but their approach has taken a 180-degree turn: they now do so with subtlety rather than sledgehammer blows… vocal distortion rather than primal screams… assimilation rather than terrorization.

WTFAYLA offers music that is industrial, futuristic, and robotic—all of which are highlighted in the opening track, “The Fall": 87 seconds of the sounds of war being waged in the listener’s mind by battle machines of great menace. The next song, “I Killed Amanda,” is the most up-tempo of the EP; this and a brief section toward the end of "Summer" are the only hints at the previous intensity and fury of (the)medicine theory. WTFAYLA contains seven tracks and clocks in at a bit more than twenty minutes, seven-and-a-half of which comprise “Wash," which is a brilliant demonstration of the sinister slow-burn. Area haunted house mainstay The Edge of Hell would be well-advised to license this track and play it on an unending loop.

The album closes with another sub-two-minute experience, “Stair Chase." After lighting a cigarette, Schroeder walks into a stream-of-consciousness monologue which one would picture Professor Stephen Hawking delivering after being fed a steady diet of Bauhaus and Kerouac. The oration of the lyrics and the sound of a piano being played in every non-traditional way you can imagine battle for the attention of the listener until the very end, concluding with the words “and then he tore apart my throat” …

… and (the) silence is deafening.

(the)medicine theory is currently working on Versificator, its new album, and will be taking a short hiatus from playing shows for a bit. For now, check out the current album on Bandcamp.

–Michael Byars

Michael is the host of The Mailbox, a weekly podcast that offers new music, concert info and news about the Kansas City area and more. In his spare time you might find him looking for some good live music, particularly at a certain bar that has lots of records.

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As we mourn the end of summer, let us not forget the good things about autumn… seasonal beer, the return of leather jackets, and the sun going down just a bit earlier, which means you can party through the night just a little bit longer! Wyldlife is four 70’s-styled pop/garage rockers who swear by foot stomping, hard drinking, mic swinging, and all forms of delinquency. Currently working on a new album, they’ll be playing their next show on October 20th, for the CMJ marathon, at Brooklyn’s Grand Victory – come out, shout, and forget about the summertime blues, ‘ya dig? (Posted in The Deli’s Open Blog – post your band’s entries, videos, and Mp3s here). The Deli NYC Open Blog is powered by The Music Building. 

Next on a recent string of awkward dance solos: watch granny get her groove on at the park in Fast Years‘ new music video for ‘Stolen Love’ (streaming below), revealed a few days ago. Three minutes of hip grinding and contortions later, if you’re not up for partying yet, there’s probably something wrong with you. Hey, she’s probably about seventy, and may look like some sweatpants-wearing lunatic out of a Monty Python sketch show, but she got moves! Enjoy. Stolen Love was taken off Fast Years’ debut EP ‘Women’, which they released in June, the latest output from these five Brooklyn up-and-comers to keep an eye out for – they’ll be playing The Deli’s CMJ Indie Pop stage, on Wednesday October 17th at Spike Hill, alongside Eytan and The Embassy, The Last Royals  & more.

Don’t call it a "side project." Or even worse a "supergroup." Much like The Divine Fits, the members from the band Diamond Rugs think of it as just that – a "band." The personnel may pull double duty in other formidables like Black Lips (Ian Saint Pe), Deer Tick (John McCauley and Rob Crowell), Los Lobos (Steve Berlin), and Dead Confederate (Hardy Morris), but this is most certainly a rock n’ roll unit in the tightest sense of the word. Their hard-charging self-titled debut was released on Brooklyn’s own Partisan Records earlier this year, and the band has just announced some live dates this Fall. Before heading South, the tour kicks off with the Rugs’ only current Northeast appearance at Carnegie Hall on Sat. 10/27, where John McCauley will play with collaborators past and present. – Ryan Henriquez

(Photo of Everyday/Everynight)

More often than not, a bill of diverse acts just doesn’t work. When you’re a show promoter, you typically don’t set up a group of guylined cock rockers with a charming folk duo. 

–Michelle Bacon

Michelle is editor-in-chief of The Deli – Kansas City. She also has a weekly column with The Kansas City Star and reviews music for Ink. She plays with Deco Auto, Drew Black and Dirty Electric, and Dolls on Fire. She flosses daily. Do you?

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Hailed by The Deli as "The Best NYC Band of the New Millennium (so far)" and also as "the NYC band with the worst name ever" (please note they recently changed Gass to Gase, which slightly improves things), Buke and Gase are a creative force of epic proportions. The duo builds and master to perfection their own crazy sounding instruments and forges a musical style that’s hard to pintpoint: I guess "electric-industrial-noise-rock" (since industrial is normally an electronic genre) gets very close to the substance of their music. The band was on the cover of the summer 2009 issue of The Deli, but didn’t make Pitchfork’s "Best New Music" only because the reviewer (who shouldn’t have reviewed that album) thought their songs weren’t structured enough. While that’s a critique that makes sense for your regular indie pop or indie rock band, a different set of criteria should be used for an act so obviously (and so efficiently) experimental. 

This being said, the preview track from the upcoming album ("Hiccup," streaming below), besides showcasing once again Arone Dyer’s melodic talent and the band’s imaginative "anti-funk" tendencies, also betrays signs of coming to terms with a more "classic" song structure, which is something that can take this band to the next level in their career, since we all enjoy the tension and release qualities of more traditional pop songs.

For some more crazy goodness, check out the video for "Misshaping Introduction" here.

Buke and Gase is a band that will be remembered, and is best enjoyed live (Arone is also very entertaining on stage), so do not them at Mercury Lounge on October 12, and we mean it! – PDG