This morning I checked our drop box to look through our daily load of submissions and I found an email from an Austin,Tx artist named M.i who, for the past week has been on my radar after seeing some of his music on our friend Ashley Outrageous' blog. As fate should have it M.i. hit us up to post his newest video from his Mixtape "The Coldplay Sessions" and I am really happy he did cause this dudes music is really on point. S/O to M.i keep doing your thing I hope some A&R's catch wind of your talent dude.

Deli Readers, Here are the final results of The Deli's Best of Austin 2011 Poll for Emerging Artists. As you may know, this poll is the result of a 2 month long process during which we asked local scenemakers, Deli writers and readers their opinion about the best emerging local bands of the year that just ended. The chart below is the summary of all these votes. 1. EQUALS Congrats - again - to Equals , whose [...]

Here's a song called 'Aliens Enter' from a UK artist signed to the ever-excellent Tru Thoughts. This song features Austin-native T Fly rapping over the top of a bottom heavy, breaks influenced production that sounds grimey. Her flow is lazy and and the slow BPM makes this a track to listen to loud while driving slow. Actually, I think I want to hear this on a soundsystem at Carnival or something. It's sick. It's the first song off his new album Daily Intake which is due to come out on 19th March. [...]

It seems like it's been ages, years even, since I last heard word from the local group The Laughing . I was always a fan of the band's tunes, but sort of just assumed that they had moved on to other things. Well, imagine my surprise today when I get a random email from the band promoting a new song entitled "Disappear". It shows tons of promise for one of Austin's finest bands that was dormant for too long. A new album from the band, Oscillation , is said to be on the way [...]
ARAB SPRING by Literature Literature is a pop rock group whose sound has a lotta jangle and a little lo-fi. It's a familiar angle, but the songwriting is too catchy for me to ignore, reminding me a lot of groups like Smith Westerns. While most tracks on this Literature LP have a happy-go-lucky vibe, they never stray too far from their rough and sorta rowdy rock attitude, keeping these tracks from getting too sweet. The band is currently allowing a digital download of this LP for whatever price you'd like. Grab the [...]
Bug Machine - Sympathy The synths are chunky enough to leave dents in the wall, the vocals smooth enough to seep through the subsequent cracks. Bug Machine combines harsh with resonant; gentle with aggressive, on his ' Disconnect' E.P . " We have selfish needs ", the anonymous vocalist claims atop a towering wall of sky-reaching synths - indeed, my desire is for this guy to be played on the radio as I drive in blistering temperates through the heart of the Australian outback, but we can't have it all. This guy [...]
Date Saturday, Feb 11th Location St. David's Episcopal Church Doors 730 pm Tickets $17 from Transmission Make no mistake about it, Saturday has a lot of great shows, but one of the places to be has to be St . David's Episcopal Church where you can catch one of the legends of indie rock. Things seem [...]

I came away from listening to Jack Wilson 's new self-titled album believing that he truly has a very personal way of coating a rust tinged world with some beautiful colors, and a seemingly infinite amount of them. Trying to distance himself from the idea of making a concept album, he really gave himself the opportunity to sing in many voices. This approach allows the emotional ride of this album to be as unpredictable and varying as the course of any other natural human life, allowing it to breathe. Jack is about to release his debut album on Portland [...]
They Might Be Giants played to a sold-out audience at the La Zona Rosa in Austin, Texas.

I've been waiting for this video to debut for awhile, and it's exactly as fantastic as I expected it to be (entirely unsurprising considering the degree of excellence everything they've done so far has reached). Here it is, Quiet Company 's "You, Me & the Boatman," from 20112s We Are All Where We Belong (one of our Best Album picks, for good reason):

We last heard from Memo Guerra a few weeks ago when he delivered a dreamy pop track by the name of "Separate Leaves/This Is the Line." This time around, he's bringing the noise back onto the dancefloor under his Cheap Talk moniker. "Ocarina of the Spheres" is not only a reference to a fine video game, it is a supremely clever, groovy on a few levels, and yes, actually danceable. Though the sounds that build the track themselves would be at home in bounce, juke, ghetto bass, electronic cumbia, and many other modern dance genres, they arrive in different [...]
Últimamente hemos venido hablando bastante de Austin City Limits , debido tal vez a la calidad y rabiosa actualidad en la que están sus últimos artistas invitados. Austin City Limits es uno de esos shows que todo artista que se precie está obligado a ganarse, ya que se trata de un programa que se emite desde hace más de 35 años (1976) y ha contribuido entre otras cosas a que Austin, en Texas, se haya convertido en la capital mundial de la música en directo. Arcade Fire , Florence And The Machine [...]

Emily Beanblossom's a bit of a roamer, and we're happy to have her find a home here in Austin, for the time being at least. She's about to release her new album, Pith , via K Records on March 15th (if you buy straight from K, all money goes to Emily!) under the Ruby Fray moniker. There's a nice bit of difference in the two tracks, one featuring a heavy-handed guitar backbone, the other more gentle and quirky. You'll enjoy a similar [...]
Ex-Sound Team members Matt Oliver and Jordan Johns have been releasing music as TV Torso over the...

In two months time Real Estate will be hitting the road for a Spring tour. I don't believe we've caught them in concert yet, but lucky for us, they'll be stopping by here in Austin on Wednesday, April 11th. Tickets are already on sale for the show for the low, low price of $13. Seriously a steal! Purchase them here . Real Estate | [ Facebook ] [ Twitter ] Real Estate 2012 U.S. Spring Tour Dates : 04/03 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church 04/04 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar 04/05 [...]
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Independent Bands and Artists, We have a 2 stages night show booked at the Gypsy Lounge in Austin's East Side on Thursday 03.15, with Reptar and Body Language confirmed amongst others. We have a couple of opening/closing slots available and we are looking for artists interested in playing. If you are, please go HERE . P.S. The Deli this year will be in Austin with a magazine (10k copies, all glossy!). If you are interested in promoting your show with an ad please contact as at rates [...]

We are honored to present the return of arguably the tightest live band in the world at the moment, Austin's White Denim - who are currently in the midst of a West Coast tour with Wilco - live at the esteemed Granada Theater on Thursday, April 5 . Our friends at the Granada have hooked us up with 5 pairs of tickets to give away for this one: just leave your name in the comments or over on our FB page to enter. You [...]
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There's really not that many electro artists that can really go without vocals and pull it off. Tracks tend to get boring and monotonous without at least a little vocal sampling thrown in. That said, Wolfgang Gartner is of the select few who can go do just fine without it. In his latest beast, "There And Back" gets us fist pumping more & more throughout its six minutes of glory. I do have to admit that it goes a little long for my idle worship, but bring me to the club and I'll want this [...]