Deli Readers!

Every spring we organize our little fest involving as many artists as we can book from our latest Year End Best of NYC Poll. It's called The Deli's NYC B.E.A.F. - as in Best of Emerging Artists Fest!

Click here for the full schedule - Facebook Event here.

The Deli's Staff

NYC Deli Readers,

The Deli NYC's Best of 2012 Readers and Fans' Poll for local emerging artists is over, thanks to all those who cast their vote in support of the emerging local bands and artists in our list of nominees.

Congrats to electro pop ladies Frances Rose (pictured and streaming) for being The Deli Readers' Best Emerging NYC Artist of 2012!

Kudos also to alt rockers Apollo Run and folk-poppers Julian Fulton & the Zombie Gospel who placed second and third.

Here's this poll's top 15 chart, full results can be found here. We'll soon celebrate the artists that won the genre polls.

BEST OF NYC 2012 - READERS' POLL RESULTS   Artists Votes   1 Frances Rose 911 2 Apollo Run 818 3 Julian Fulton & the Zombie Gospel 563 4 The Henry Millers 367 5 Chron Turbine 332 6 Ludwig Persik 293 7 Napoleon 259 8 Sorcha Richardson 250 9 Great Elk 218 10 Melissa Czarnik 198 11 Modern Rivals 178 12 The Priggs 161 13 Clementine & The Galaxy 156 14 Eastern Hollows 145   Lora Faye 145

MOST IMPORTANTLY THOUGH! Stay tuned for the composite chart, to be released soon, which will include the point nominees accumulated from the jurors and Deli writers' votes, and will crown The Deli's Best Emerging NYC Artist of 2012.

The Deli's Staff

Our year end polls closed yesterday and the results are coming in! As you may have noticed, our artist pool this year was so massive we had to organize qualifying bands by genre. While the end results were based off most overall votes, regardless of category, each genre had it's own winner as well. Apollo Run took first place in our Alt Rock category. 

The entire universe often wonders what the difference is between Alt Rock and Indie Rock. Here at The Deli we call "Alt" that kind of Rock music that's inspired to a more classic concept of Rock'n'Roll or Pop-Rock, or any rock genre that was commercially successful before the aughts - think about bands reminiscent of anything from Led Zeppeling to Aerosmith, Weezer or Nirvana. While Indie Rock tends to be a little more experimental and dark, Alt Rock is (at least in our vocabulary) more traditional and a little more accessible - without being just "pop".

Total submissions in this category: 38

Artists Qualified to the Poll's Next Stage (starting around 01.15):

1. Apollo Run - 7.66 (out of 10)
2. BLACK TAXI - 7.33

Honorable Mentions (scores above 6.5):

Outernational, Late Cambrian, Viva Mayday, Wyldlife, Only Living Boy, Von Shakes, Raccoon Fighter, The Clox, Noble Hunter.

Jurors: Michelle Turner (Deli Nashville), Brandi Lukas (Deli Contributor), QD Tran (Deli Philly) 

The Deli's Staff

When you listen to Apollo Run, you can easily get the impression that their music just keeps growing and growing to impossible heights, even when their harmonies are already lost in the clouds. In the space of just one song, John McGrew and crew take you up to a furtive hook, then proceed to throw in a trumpet, raise the harmonies up by a couple more octaves, and proceed to play everything again with only cardboard instruments... At least that's what the video for new single 'The Inevitable Small Rebellions' (streaming below) from new album 'HBDVIII' would have us believe. See them live on Friday 01.11 when they play The Mercury Lounge and let me know how they do it yourself. - Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)