Just a quick blast to drop the new Keeper track that came out this week, which is some deliciously smooth-bass-heavy R&B that sees the group (who came in 3rd in our 2014 Artist of the Year Poll and whose jams have been gettin' major notice around the nation since, even showing up as an opener track on a Broad City episode) continuing its mastery of the three-voiced future music front. They're also keeping steady on the collaboration front, adding San Antonio producer MoonDoctoR to their list of producers who have dropped a hell of an electronic beat to accompany the sultry sirens in doin' what they do, a list that is quickly becoming a who's who of Texas producers who themselves are set to break out on the big scene. Do just what the song say and get sweatin' out your clothes, as the girls put it, with "Next to Me" below y'all.

Deli Nation,

Our Year End Poll for Emerging Austin Artists was - as usual - a painstaking (and somewhat excruciating) process, but we pulled it off with remarkable flair!

Kudos to intense rockers Löwin (pictured and streaming) for winning the poll, check out their noteworthy last single "Best Laid Plans," released just a month ago.

Thumbs up also to wicked electro-choral trio Keeper (we featured them in this blog a few days ago) who placed second, and to textural and adventurous post rockers Chipper Jones, who came in third. Here's some of these folks music:

Here is how it all went down: first, we let the local bands submit their music (for free), and got our Deli editors to pick the nominees. Then we polled a list of 15+ Austin scene expert (our jury) and asked them to nominate 3 more bands of their choice each. Then we polled our writers, then we polled our readers. We tried to keep things open for each single genre, from Indie Rock to Roots Music to Hip Hop.

If you are a geek interested in all the subtelties related to how this poll works, you can read its rules here (happy reading!). But if all you care about is the awesome new music Austin produced in the year 2013, this list is all you need. Enjoy!

BEST OF 2014 POLL FOR EMERGING AUSTIN ARTISTS ****** FINAL RESULTS ******

ARTIST   J OS R TOT   1 Löwin   7.5   0.5 8 2 Keeper   4.5   0.014 4.514 3 Chipper Jones   4.5   0.005 4.505 4 Skyline   2   2 4 5 Comforter   2   1.5 3.5 6 Grace London     3 0.5 3.5 7 Illustrations   3   0.019 3.019 8 Sphynx   3   0.013 3.013 9 Robert Banta   3   0.009 3.009 10 Other Lovers   3   0.003 3.003 11 The Golden Dawn Arkestra   3   0.002 3.002 12 Applied Pressure   3   0.001 3.001 13 Modern Medicine   3   0.001 3.001 14 Eyelid Kid   3   0 3 15 The Boxing Lesson   3   0 3 16 Zettajoule   3   0 3 17 Leah Nobel     1.5 1 2.5 18 The Stargazers   2   0.027 2.027 19 Popper Burns   2   0.017 2.017 20 A. Sinclair   2   0.009 2.009 21 Timberos Del Norte   2   0.008 2.008 22 Kalu James   2   0.007 2.007 23 Casual Strangers   2   0.006 2.006 24 Night Drive   2   0.005 2.005 25 Crooked Bangs   2   0.004 2.004 26 Roger Sellers   2   0.004 2.004 27 Peterson Brothers Band   2   0.003 2.003 28 Sweet Spirit   2   0.003 2.003 29 Other Lovers   2   0.003 2.003 30 Beat Imprint   2   0.002 2.002 31 Tameca Jones   2   0.002 2.002 32 Tele Novella   2   0.002 2.002 33 Holiday Mountain   2   0.001 2.001 34 Magna Carda   2   0.001 2.001 35 Taylor & the Wild Now     2 0.001 2.001 36 Hard Proof   2   0 2 37 The Ghost Wolves   2   0 2 38 Whiite Walls   2   0 2 39 Anya   1   0.02 1.02 40 The Nightowls   1   0.007 1.007 41 Molybden   1   0.005 1.005 42 Emily Wolfe     1 0.001 1.001 43 Gold Beach   1   0.001 1.001 44 Gumbo Ce Soir   1   0.001 1.001 45 Young Tongue   1   0.001 1.001 46 Ben Ballinger   1   0 1 47 Dark West   1   0 1 48 Que Pasa   1   0 1 49 Wrenfro   1   0 1 Legend: J = Jurors, W = Deli Writers, R = Deli Readers, OS = Open Submissions

Jurors List: Tyson J Swindell (Red7), Howdy Darrell (White Horse), Dianne Scott (Continental Club), John Laird (Side One Track One), Adam Mason (Scoot Inn), Amanda Garcia (austintexas.org), Brian DiFrank (Wet Stone Audio), Marcus Lawyer (Mohawk), Margaret Galton (C3 Presents), Gillian Driscoll (Sound Dessert), Eva Mueller (Spider House Ballroom), Jeff McCord (KUTX), Maggie Lea (CheerUp Charlie's), Brittany Campbell (The Parish).

Hope you'll find some awesome new artists you weren't aware of!

The Deli's Staff

Vocal group Keeper is next up in our look at the four artists nominated for Artist of the Month. Keeper is three Austin ladies, and they are undoubtedly leading the way when it comes to local singing talent collaborating with ATX beatmakers. Working from the premise of creating interesting harmonies to complement production by some of our most quality hiphop and electronic music producers like Pagame, Anna Love and Boombaptist, Keeper are giving local tracks stunning local vocals. It's nice when you can source that shit from the home team, and even nicer when you end up with a quality sound like Keeper's, which floats somewhere between pop and old R&B, but with a definite awareness of the electronic music vocalists of the past. It's not hard to imagine that some upcoming track collab between an Austin producer on top of their game and Keeper on theirs will get some major national attention pretty soon. Keep an ear on these guys, and vote for em to the right if you're so inclined.