May is the month of The Deli’s NYC B.E.A.F. – our Best of Emerging Artist Fest! (Check out lat year’s poter here).

As usual, we have scheduled several genre related stages in a few different Williamsburg venues (full schedule and art coming soon) and we are glad to inform you that the Rootsy Stage show will be at Spike Hill on Thursday 05.24, and will be headlined by Tall Tall Trees (pictured), and feature other awesome NYC rootsy bands that made our Best of NYC Emerging Artists Year End Poll in January: Food Will Win the War, Big Wilson River, The Bottom Dollars, Reverend John Delore, Fredericks Brown, and The Due Diligence.

We’ll also take this opportunity to show you this remarkable DIY video Tall Tall Trees premiered a few weeks ago, filmed entirely in the bands’ Bed-Stuy home base and consisting in one long shot conceived and choreographed by the band. The band’s entire latest album "Moment" can be streamed here.

Tatiana Kochkareva discusses regrets and mistakes with the haunting assurance of someone who knows what she’s talking about. On her debut ‘Infinity,’ out April 19th on Moscow Native Records, a baroque-style barroom piano echoes through chambers of shadowy echoes and filtered textures, reminding me a bit of the kind of magic you hear on Antony and the Johnsons’ records. Hailing from Moscow, the artist channels distant lands in songs like ‘Winter’ and ‘Roses’ (streaming below)

See her at the album’s release show at The Living Room on April 19th. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

Cleverly drawing in both new and longstanding fans, Diane Cluck is in full force with her project, “Song of the Week.” For six months she’ll be writing, recording, and distributing a new song each week, bringing a plethora of new music to her catalog and keeping things fresh for listeners and music enthusiasts. Her original folkloric tunes have been featured on BreakThru Radio and her haunting, smooth lyrics keep loyal listeners excited about her running project since it’s inception in March. -CM

Bryan Scary is the most fun you can have without a guitar. The man bangs the piano like a runaway train, utilizing the kind of deft skill usually associated with Elton John concerts and West Village piano bars. Scary packs the soul of Mark Ronson together with the vocal reach of Freddie Mercury… if the two of them decided to write a musical together about umbrellas and gamblers.

His debut record, ‘The Shredding Tears,’ was a breath of fresh air back in 2006, and since then, Scary and his glam-fabulous band have done everything they can to live up to their electro-goth-burlesque persona: From touring the country to readying their latest release.

With Scary’s latest ‘Daffy’s Elixir’ (stream it here) due April 24th on the forward-looking Brooklyn indie label Paper Garden records, it’ll be exciting to see how his mission is extended to include a "Western set during the Industrial Revolution, with an assorted cast of bandits, con men, hucksters, phonies, and all-around bad fellas." His words… not mine.

See the mad man himself when he plays Brooklyn Bowl to celebrate his album’s release, on April 24th. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

Brooklyn electro duo Jonka is back with a brand new single and music video called, "Every Other Day". From their forthcoming album, "Pinks and Blues". A lo-fi beat slowly evolves into a soaring rhythmic landscape, while TV on the Radio-esque "oohs" introduce the dreamy melody.Filmed around Manhattan, the video is a montage of New York City street art and the living, breathing city itself. – (as posted in The Deli’s Open Blog – post your band’s entries, videos, and Mp3s here). The Deli’s NYC Open Blog is powered by The Music Building. 

Spirit Family Reunion (#26 in our latest Best of NYC Emerging Artists Year End Poll) is one of those bands seen playing in the subway, in the back of noisy bars, or on busy street corners, going unnoticed to bright lights and mobs of listless pedestrians with their earbuds at full blast. Or at least that’s what their cracked and weathered sound would make you believe. Their songs are drenched in soul and the twang of the banjo, taking the Brooklyn band far beyond the ordinary bluegrass rock group. Traveling as far south as they do north, Sprit Family Reunion are a gospel-infused reminder of everything that makes roots music great. The band ill make their Newport Folk Festival debut this summer but you can catch them in their hometown on May 12 at Mercury Lounge, playing songs from their forthcoming debut album, which they’re mixing as we speak. – Devon Antonetti

Spring has sprung for well-coiffed 23-year-old Devin (the artist previously known as Devin Therriault). After catching a lot of attention in 2010, the young man took a year off to work on his new record, which was released under the title "Romancing" on April 10th via FrenchKiss records, home to bands such as The Hold Steady, The Drums, and Passion Pit. Unlike the majority of today’s Brooklyn based artists, Devin’s not about "the indie rocks" – and nothing about him is understated. His boisterous rock n’ roll certainly features very NYC garage-rock influences, but retains an old school charm to it. His dapper wardrobe plus the aforementioned hairdo evoke some sort of young Elvis. The details add up: a look which screams late 50s, an energy-packed live performance (backed by a band), a video (streaming below) featuring a lady moving her pelvis, while Devin sings on the vintage mic made famous by many photos of Presley. And, like Elvis, this Brooklyner is not without sex appeal – and neither he’s afraid to talk about the ladies. In promotion of this album, he’ll be touring Europe in May, and will hopefully be back for a show in NYC in the summer. – Corinne Bagish

Brooklyn-based post-rock outfit LUFF will be releasing their new EP, "Maybe It’s Just Sleeping," with a show at Cakeshop on Monday 16. Written in the aftermath of a series of tragic losses suffered by the band members, the EP is a grievous love letter to the lost. The guitars’ elegant interplay, often building towards shoegaze-style sonic "expansions", supports Sheila Sobolewski’s intense vocals and suggestive lyrics.

Freshly formed (and pictureless) LES band Diavel (local Bolognese dialect for “devil”, pronounced Dee-ah-vel) have named themselves after a Ducati for good reason. With just 2 basses and a set of drums, these 3 jazz trained musicians rip instrumental music fast and tight, weaving through musical genres with ease and skill. Having recently returned from SXSW last month (where they played the Deli’s own party at Gypsy Lounge with Reptar and Body Language) they now return to Brooklyn this Monday with a show at Glasslands Gallery on 289 Kent Ave. – Simon Heggie

Lately we’ve been giving a decent amount of exposure to NYC based singer songwriter Charlene Kaye, who showed impressive artistic growth in the last year or so. We are happy to hear that she will be leaving for her first national tour in May. Check out bellow her latest single, "Dress and Tie," a duet with her frequent collaborator, Glee’s Darren Criss.