Today was…interesting. This may be a rather less in-depth recap than my previous two. I got distracted. A couple of times. I had a plenty early start to the day. Unshowered, my head in a fog, I met my buds from Vomitface in Williamsburg to go see Whiskey Bitches (pictured) at Knitting Factory. But Whiskey Bitches weren’t playing Knitting Factory. At least not today. We got our dates confused, and they were playing there the following day. Whoops! So where else to but Baby’s All Right! I feel like this place is becoming a home away from home. - Keep reading JP Basileo's report of day 4 of the CMJ Music Marathon 2014

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Spring 2014. NYC Issue #38 (Best of NYC)
Read it here

Since forming at the beginning of 2013, Bushwick based all girl punk rock band Whiskey Bitches (who placed fourth in our recent Year End Poll for emerging NYC artists) has released a single entitled “Wasted” while keeping a busy live show schedule in the NYC area. Founding members Madge and Kate Black have solidified their current lineup with Eli Lopez on drums, and have plans to unveil new material in the coming months. 

LINKS: Dave Cromwell's interview with Whiskey Bitches
EVENTS: Whiskey Bitches live at The Deli's NYC B.E.A.F./Northside Fest Everything Stage on 06.15 at Silent Barn

NYC Deli Readers,

The Deli's Best of NYC 2013 Readers and Fans' Poll for 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 Brooklyn's power pop trio Late Cambrian (pictured and streaming) for being The Deli Readers' Best Emerging NYC Artist of 2013!

Kudos also to Rap-Metal outfit PUSHMETHOD and lo-fi soul talent I/O (both bands spelled rigorously in all caps!) who placed second and third.

Here's this poll's top 15 chart, full results organized by genre can be found on the right hand side of this page.

BEST OF NYC 2013 - READERS' POLL RESULTS   Artists Reader Votes   1 Late Cambrian 1260 2 PUSHMETHOD 1037 3 I/O 813 4 NGHBRS 756 5 Whiskey Bitches 678 6 Active Bird Community 496 7 Dear Georgiana 482 8 Tall Tall Trees 417 9 Maginot 272 10 The Lovehowl 244 11 Stargazy 233 12 Twintapes 195 13 oddlogic 176 14 Bridget Davis + the Viking Kings 168 15  Belle Mare 132

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 2013.

The Deli's Staff

We can finally begin to publish the results of the open submissions for our Best of NYC 2013 Poll for Emerging Artists, starting with the Revival Rock category! FYI, all our local branches are running a Year End Poll right now, so check them out in the next 3-4 weeks (only Austin has released some results so far).

Since in NYC we always get hundreds of submissions for this yearly poll, we organize these results by genre. It's the first year that we feature a Revival Rock category (it used to be bundled together with Alt Rock), which includes mostly Garage, Punk and Classic Rock bands.

As always, more than 2 bands deserved to go through to the poll's next phase, but unfortunately we have to put a limit to the band that qualify (we already have too many!). Here we go then: 

Total submissions in this category: 13

Artists Qualified to the next stage (Readers' Poll, starting around 01.15):

1. Whiskey Bitches - 8.33
2. Wyldlife - 7.83

Honorable Mentions (scores above 6.5):

Sharkmuffin, Sylvana Joyce & The Moment, Swanky Tiger, WIFEY, Crazy Pills.

Jurors: Charise Sowells (Deli Austin), Terra James-Jura (Deli Nashville), Paolo De Gregorio (Deli NYC)

Stay tuned for more results, and then for the final poll - this is just the beginning of a month long process!

The Deli's Staff