If dreamy Alt-Folk (as we call it) and rabbit ears are your cup of tea, you'll have to go to Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg on January 22 to check out Sticklips, led by a smooth voiced young lady who goes under the pseudonym Little Girl Blue. The band's sound blends acoustic, sometimes jazzy lullabies a la Suzanne Vega with dreamy atmospheric background noises. Exactly what we need after two stressfull days spent dealing with the chaos generated by our server giving up on us. If you go to the show, please DEMAND the rabbit ears, they are like part of the package at this point.

Brooklyn's Cruel Black Dove mash shoegazer, goth and industrial influences into a personal, sultry indie rock sound. The band - around since 2007 - will release their sophomore EP "The Myth and the Sum" with a show at Mercury on 01.14. Beginning in 2010, the band is planning more dates nationally and internationally in support of the release.

Boy Genius will release a new version of their single "Blame Love" (featured in the upcoming new album "Staggering") on January 26, 2010, via Greenpop Recordings - you can preview it here. Brooklyn Vegan said about their music: "Boy Genius are definitely within the indiepop realm but not too sugary, not too precious, relying on well-crafted melodies and gentle, mostly-acoustic instrumentation to carry the songs...Boy Genius deserve more attention than they've gotten, hopefully that will come soon." Boy Genius also announced dates for a Eest Coast tour mostly happening between the end of January and the Beginning of February. You can catch them live at Fort Useless in Brooklyn on 01.09.

Deli Readers,

The Year End Polls are bringing in a lot of traffic and our server provider doesn't like that - they suspended our account for a few hours because of eccessive load on their server's CPU. We tweaked the site's settings on our end and hopefully we won't have this problem again.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience!

Paolo
www.thedelimagazine.com

Democracy loving peoples,

The last phase of our exhausting Year End Best of NYC vote has begun - each one of you can now let us know what their favorite emerging NYC band of 2009 is. Don't miss this opportunity to change the world! - Hey, maybe this year for the first time an African American artist will win our contest???

VOTE HERE!
***Poll closes on January 15***
 

As you should all know by now, the winner of the Composite Chart (the one including votes from Jury, Deli Writers and Deli Readers) will get the cover of The Deli's Spring issue + prizes from our sponsors including free studio and mastering time, audio plug ins, music store vouchers, musical instrument insurance etc.

The 2nd and 3rd artists will also be rewarded with a smaller picture on that issue's cover + some prizes from our sponsors. All bands in the list on the right will get a writeup in that issue as well.

But what about the Readers' Polls winners? There you go:

POOL OF PRIZES FOR THE TOP 3 BANDS IN THE READERS' POLL

1. 12 hours of free recording studio
2. 6 free mastered songs
3. 4 Audio Plug Ins
4. $150 in vouchers for local Guitar Store
5. Full print feature on The Deli (winner only)
6. Artist of the Month Banner on The Deli's website for 2 weeks (winner only)

Have fun!

The Deli's Staff