Portland

Deli Portland Presents: Intimate Exposures with GRANDPARENTS

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The Deli Magazine would love to incite more rowdy into your summer.

To that end, on Saturday, July 26th at 2pm, we are kicking off the first installment of what will be an ongoing audio/video series that we’ve dubbed, Intimate Exposures, featuring interviews and live performances by Portland’s best bands in varying intimate settings, and we invite you all to come be a part of it! Saturday’s inaugural event will be a pot-luck style brunch house show at the Aquarium Garden House, awesomely located on the corner of Alberta and NE 6th, featuring one of our absolute favorite bands, GRANDPARENTS: a psych-pop band full of amazing musicians who, in collaboration, are known to invoke mindgasms over and over again. SS Curmudgeon will open the afternoon at 2pm with Grandparents to follow at 3pm.

Audio from Grandparents set will be recorded by Adam Harney, one of the sound engineer geniouses behind Banana Stand Media. Additionally, the party will be filmed by a team of five talented cameramen and women, with direction and editing by local videographers gurus Alexei Shishkin and Nick Gattman.

We invite you to bring some variation of food or drink to share with the party. Beer will be aplenty and FREE thanks to Salem sudster sweethearts, Gilgamesh Brewering, and local snow cone experts, Fancy Ice, will be there to help you cool down with handcrafted flavors and booze infused cones! Corn-hole will be setup in the yard, but please feel free to bring any other yard games you’ll want to get down on. 

We are excited to present this series as a snapshot of the best local music, fans and culture in Portland’s ever evolving music scene, during a time when change appears more evident than ever in this Rose City we love.  
 
Click here for more information and to RSVP to the event. 
 
– Colette Pomerleau
 

Philadelphia

New Track: “Dream House” – Amanda X

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Garage-pop trio Amanda X is getting ready for the release of its debut LP Amnesia, which was with Uniform Recording’s Jeff Zeigler and will be available this Saturday, June 28 via Siltbreeze Records. They’ll also be celebrating the momentous occasion the same evening at the Philadelphia Record Exchange, which is run by Siltbreeze head honcho Tom Lax. Below is the band’s latest single entitled "Dream House."

Philadelphia

Free Pop-up Concert w/Purling Hiss and Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band at Spruce St. Harbor Park July 24

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This evening, the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation will erect a stage at Spruce Street Harbor Park for a free pop-up concert that will be benefit Vox Populi Gallery and will include video projections and sculptures from some of its artist-members. The show features a duel-headed juggernaut of local psych-rock in Purling Hiss as well as Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel. The trio of Purling Hiss explores and bends the boundaries, placing themselves somewhere that pulls elements from the noise, shoegaze, psych scenarios, while also incorporating delicate melodies with a take it or leave it garage aesthetic and raunchy instrumentation that include monsterous extended guitar jams. It’s a complex sound that when boiled down tastes like what rock ‘n’ roll is all about. Speaking of going out there, Chris Forsyth and company dare (guitar in hand) to push those concepts. Tearing down artificial walls as part of what becomes a sonic journey organically stretching the fabric of convention with elongated instrumental charges, revealing what lies just beyond the edge. This will be nice warm-up for their set tomorrow night at The Boot & Saddle opening for Oneida. (If necessary, the rain date is scheduled for this Sunday, July 27th at 7:30pm.) Spruce Street Harbor Park, (Spruce St. & Columbus Ave.) 7:30pm, Free, All Ages – Michael Colavita

San Francisco

Astronauts, etc. Releases New Single – Fuss

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We mentioned last week that we’d share Bay Area based experimental hip hop – psych artist, Astronauts, etc.‘s new single, Fuss…so now is the time.

This smooth and sensually cathartic track kind of brings sexy back to the Bay Area experimental synth scene. Everyone needs a little slowcore, tripped out synth music in their lives once in a while, and this musical project creates a potent atmosphere with style and grace. We’re always happy to sit back and not have our heads jarred every second with new music, so we invite a grooved out psych track to calm our nerves and to change the pace a little bit. (PS: continue to send us loud, intense music because tomorrow it may be time to rage).  

With touches of R&B and neo soul, Astronauts, ect is definitely onto something great.

NYC

From The Deli Submissions: Greasy Hearts play Silent Barn tonight (07.24)

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"Lost Dog", the single off the upcoming EP by a band called Greasy Hearts is a seriously good jam.  It’s got everything you need in a good garage-punk song: Fuzzy, howling vocals, a foot-stomping rhythm, and enough distortion to stick your cat’s fur straight up.  We always breath a sigh of relief when I come across a band who seemingly is doing the garage-rock shtick right; it’s not easy to work within a genre where basically every possible riff and rhythm has been used before.  Nevertheless, Greasy Hearts pulls it off with "Lost Dog", and now you’ll have to check them out live to get the full picture.  They’re playing The Silent Barn TONIGHT (7/24), and The Rock Shop in October.  Stream "Lost Dog" below.  – Jake Saunders

This band submitted their music for coverage here.

NYC

Tonight at Velvet Lounge: Virginia Invades DC! w/ Fall Seattle, Real Clothes, and A MARC Train Home.

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Tonight, 7/24, go to Velvet Lounge to see a stellar lineup of bands from Northern Virginia. Fall Seattle from Reston headlines a bill including DC Deli Artist of the Month winner Real Clothes, and A MARC Train Home from Fairfax. Fall Seattle drenches your ears in gorgeous dream-pop: sparkling guitars, and reverbed vocals telling you how much they love you (listen to their new single below). Readers of the Deli will be familiar with Real Clothes‘ surprising and charming combination of sweet melodic vocals backed by a band drawing from a wide variety of influences, combining rootsy appalachia, electronic bedroom pop, and mathy indie-rock. Opening the night, A MARC Train Home is an exciting indie-rock combo, combining everything good about the 90’s, with angular guitars swirling together into crescendos of shoegazy fuzz within dramatic alt-rock songs. Doors at 7:30, $8, 18+.

NYC

Journalism brings their chilled vibes to Palisades on 07.25 with EP Release Party

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Journalism is a fresh Brooklyn band that we’re sure is going to catch some ears in the coming years – at least if they keep making music like the last couple singles they’ve released.  We got a chance to sneak a peak at their upcoming debut EP, 1324, and it is indeed a contender.  Their first single, "A Thousand Pricks", has this infectiously catchy guitar melody that inducts a beautiful underwater vibe, but each song has something unique about it that’s worthy of the head-tilt.  Influence from bands like Real Estate and Spoon are present, but there’s not much to say other than that this band has got some great jams and some really catchy grooves.  Their release show is TOMORROW (7/25) at Palisades with a killer lineup including Turnip King, Onwe and Honduras. – Jake Saunders

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

NYC

Grand Cousin celebrates at once farewell and release show at Arlene’s (07.27)

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“Bands are unstable molecules, bands don’t want to be bands, they want to fly apart. There’s always tension; I think a lot of that’s where the music comes from." You can find these words in the Mishka Shubali feature on our recent Ten Year Anniversary issue, and they certainly hit the nail on the head when applied to CT/NYC based indie pop band Grand Cousin, who find themselves in the peculiar position of celebrating – on the same night – an EP release show and a farewell party. The trio plays an intense brand of pop with folk tinges that’s partly reminiscent of Jeff Buckley. Check out the recent video for single ‘Oxygen’ and – if you dig – enjoy the band’s last show at Arlene’s on 07.27 

Philadelphia

This Is Hardcore Fest 2014!

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Homegrown This Is Hardcore Fest kicks off today! Going on its 9th year, the brainchild of Joe Hardcore has blossomed into the premier hardcore event in the world. (Yeah, I said it – WORLD!) It will also be the first year that the fest will be presented by Noisey. TIH will be taking place over the next four days (July 24 – 27) at the Electric Factory and Voltage Lounge with after-parties around the city if you feel like you haven’t released enough aggression yet. PA acts that you’ll want to check out are Blacklisted (of course), Title Fight, Turmoil, and Code Orange Kids with plethora of badass transient groups like Converge, Madball, UltraMantis Black, and Ringworm to help send the pits into a frenzy. The Electric Factory’s parking lot will also host a gathering of food vendors and booths featuring eclectic goods and social causes to get involve with. And yes, there is re-entry you jagaloons!

Nashville

Show Alert: Kelly Ruth at fooBar 7.24

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Kelly Ruth was mentioned here early this past spring, as she took up a residency at the East Room, and subsequently transformed it.  She had a hand in involving a number of local artists that we love (Honey Locust and Phantom Farmer, to name a few) for the month of April, and has earned a place in our hearts for that, because beneath our thin candy shell runs a neverending reel of new and emerging artists.  She’s been playing her sweetly vintage folk rock around Nashville since, with her next performance this evening at fooBar as part of Palaver Records weekly showcase.  The evening’s well-curated lineup also includes Juliana Daily and Midnight Pilot; it’s going to be a great show.  Watch Ruth perform "Blue-eyed Lover" below and get a concentrated hit of her throwback style (and see if she doesn’t rival Zooey Deshanel in adorable dissaffection.) Tonight’s show starts at 9pm, and cover is $5.  -Terra James-Jura

http://www.kellyruthmusic.com/index