Emerging NYC based electro rock trio Brahms just announced at Pianos for 3 weeks in may and June with an exciting line up including – among others – Bell, Gordon Voidwell, Das Racist and Class Actress.
Chicago
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Giant System
Giant System Chicago is quickly documenting the Chicago music scene and their latest film features Love Of Everything. I just have to say that Elisse La Roche is incredible in every way. The track they are performing is called "Fear of Missing Out". Giant Systems’ past projects include Aleks and The Drummer, White/Light, Black Math, and Locks. I can wait to see what is next.
Love of Everything will be playing on April 17th (Record Store Day) at Reckless Records in the Loop at 1pm.
NYC
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Weekly Feature #200b: North Highlands – Live at Union Hall, 04.15
Gathered around a table at Macri Park, the five amiable members of North Highlands reflect on their whirlwind experience since the band’s inception in May. At their three-month mark, they had written and recorded a six-song EP that they have likened to a Chili’s sample starter platter for its eclectic nature. By October, they booked an unofficial CMJ show that drew a mesmerized crowd, who raved about it seconds later, thanks to the Internet. In December, they played an uncomfortably packed show at the Cake Shop and acquired a van to gear up for a future tour. – Read Nancy Chow’s interview with the band here.
NYC
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Weekly Feature #200a: Beach Fossils – live at Deli Best of NYC Fest, 05.13
Dustin Payseur’s cloudy voice over his soft surfer rock guitar is classic. Classic in the sense that it transcends any sort of trendy indie music movement that at this point has become tired and formulaic. Beach Fossils is a refreshing revisit to the lo-fi quality music of 60s rock. The record could easily be a found treasure from your father’s old stored away box of vinyls. The so cal vibe mixes well with Dustin’s distorted vocals and makes for sincere, oft sad songs that remain lively with a pinch of pop. – Read Chloe Schildhause’s interview with the band here. Beach Fossils will headline the Deli’s Best of NYC Fest show at Brooklyn Bowl on Thursday May 13.
Chicago
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Kick Cancer In The Balls Benefit
On April 21st at Empty Bottle the coolest benefit concert ever will take place and proceeds will go to the Nicest Man in Chicago. That man is David Thomas and he has cancer, but has had some success with treatment. However, he has been dropped from insurance and has a massive amount of medical bills. The event features music from Amalea Tshilds, Follows, and The Record Low. They will also have a bunch of cool items to auction of from local shops and publishers. It is the Kick Cancer In The Balls Benefit and tickets can only be purchased at the door for $12.
Philadelphia
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U.S. Girls Back from Europe at DDG April 14
U.S. Girls’ (a.k.a. Meghan Remy a.k.a. Meghan Uremovich) songs contain that beautiful primal instinct inside man and in this case woman to make music. It’s that moment of inspiration by the first person to use a log or a couple of stones as an instrument to joyously express how he or she felt inside. It’s that dire need to create and invent separating the artists from the wannabes. So welcome Remy back from her 2-month jaunt through the U.K., Italy, France and Sweden tonight at Danger Danger Gallery with the always sinister Hot Guts, rockin’ My Mind and interstellar grooves of Mi Ami. You can catch up with her about all the hot topics that she might have missed on the road in Europe like flash mobs, healthcare reform and the recent step closer to the legalization of pot in Philly! Danger Danger Gallery, 5013 Baltimore Ave., 8pm, $5 – $10 donation, All Ages myspace.com/usgirlsss (Photo by Jessica Kourkounis from this week’s City Paper cover story) – H.M. Kauffman
Portland
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Blue Giant free April happy hour residency at Laurelthirst
The best 5 bucks you’ll spend all week will be on a beer at the Laurelthirst…while Blue Giant is knocking the electric blues piss outta ya for free!
The band will be holding down a residency at the LaurelThrist Public House from 6 to 8 p.m. every Wednesday in April…
Wait, wait, wait. "What’s a residency?" asked singer and country guitar slanger Kevin Robinson. Well, it’s where you show up and play to the people that are already in the bar. Okay, that sounds pretty good to The Robinsons and Co. because Blue Giant will be trying out new material and jamming with old friends alongside their normal arsenal of slide and steel guitars, and anything that you can strum in between. Bring a mandolin or banjo.
But honestly, Blue Giant doesn’t strum. Sometimes it’s mellow and folky acoustic, sometimes slightly psychedelic. Lots of Southern twang with a fiddle here, then electric riffs and ass-kickin’ harmonica there – Bringing It All Back Home-era Dylan.
"Got to pay your dues if you want to play the blues, you know it don’t come easy," sings Kevin Robinson.
But it’s damn easy to enjoy Blue Giant for free.
– Chris Young
Austin
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From the Open Blog: Crooks
A country band in the original and truest sense of the term, you won’t find Crooks trafficking in piano bar anthems or boot scoot boogies. Not content to further clog CMT with radio-ready schmaltz, rural sentimentality, or nostalgia for a simpler time, these hounds are out to tree a different animal altogether. If you play a Crooks song backwards, you won’t get your dog, truck, and woman back. Though you might get your morality, humanity and sobriety. The good geologist, like the musicologist, knows that to unearth the best rock, one must look underground. And this holds just as true for outlaw country. So if you’re looking to wet your whistle in an undiscovered watering hole, give Crooks country a try. It’s just down the road apiece, off the well-worn path.
(this post taken from Crooks’ post on our DIY Open Blog, check out other Open Blog posts in the Deli Kitchen. As for Crooks – check them out at Mohawk with James ‘Slim’ Hand, Friday, April 16th. Pic above by Davis Ayer)
L.A.
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Best of LA #17- Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
Here it is! The video you have been waiting for is here and awaiting for eager eyes. Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros not only know how to formulate very alluring band names, but they are quite talented musicians as well. Their debut album, "Up From Below" is available via itunes. They are also touring the hell out of the good ol’ U S of A in the coming months, so keep an eye out on your impending vacations.
San Francisco
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The Deli SF’s Weekend Highlights For 4/15-4/17
Sitting restless two days into the work week, we have much hope that it will not require a boat to traverse the city this coming weekend (much as it was last), and while we await the final verdict on that there are a few shows that are worth adding to your calender coming up in the next few days.
Should you find yourself out and about this Thursday night make your way deep into the Mission to El Rio where Tokyo Raid will be playing with shoegazers Foreign Cinema, 9pm.
For something perhaps a little more upbeat and electronic, head over to the Rickshaw on Friday the 16th where Butterfly Bones (who recently played one of Epic Sauce‘s Milk showcases) will be laying down grooves with Princeton and the Swedish band Love is All, 8:30pm.
If nothing else, Hemlock should once again be your Saturday evening destination where psyche rockers Paranoids will be playing with Pets and Midnight Strangers, who are celebrating their CD release, 9pm.
That should about cover it for this week. Let’s hope it stays dry otherwise, screw it, show up drenched. Otherwise, check back again next week.
–Ada Lann
New England
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Interview with Margaret Glaspy
Singer/songwriter, Margaret Glaspy came to Boston three years ago on a grant from the National Foundation for the Advancement of Arts. Since then, she’s been rocking the folk scene, regularly headlining at Club Passim, who has just given her an Iguana Music Award. As she settles into a Tuesday night residency at the Lizard Lounge for April, Glaspy talked to the Deli about the Boston scene, finding her voice as a songwriter and the power of acoustic music.
DELI: You come from California?
Margaret Glaspy: Red Bluff. It’s this tiny little town in northern California, kind of conservative and…interesting (laughs). We were definitely the weird family.
DELI: How so?
MG: It was definitely a small town vibe, lots of cattle and county fairs and rodeos and stuff…not that all that stuff isn’t great but we were kind of on a different path.
Read the whole interview by Jason Rabin HERE