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The Deli Staff

Deli Readers,

We've been working very hard to take as many bands as possible to this year's CMJ Music Marathon. As a matter of fact we aren't 100% finished with booking yet, but close enough to announce that we will have 6 shows and 7 stages during CMJ 2010 - in 5 different venues on 4 different days! As usual, there will be a smosgarboard of bands (around 50) mostly from NYC - including Keepaway, Oberhofer, Brahms, Bear Hands, Anni Rossi, Buke and Gass, The Rassle, The Living Days, Electric Tickle Machine, Chappo... and a welcome bunch of "foreigners" from other scenes we cover, like buzz-bands Blackbird Blackbird (SF), Bad Cop (Nashville), and Strand of Oaks (Philly).

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We would also like to thank the 950+ artists that submitted through The Deli to play one of our CMJ parties - a dozen of them were selected by us and the venues. We really wish we could have picked more, it was a heart breaking process...

By the way, if your band wasn't selected for CMJ 2010, you may want to check out this article we wrote just for you, about how to improve your chances to be part of it next year. Hope you find it helpful!

Cheers!
The Deli Staff
 

Portland, Maine's Brenda have had a pretty intense summer. They played the Nateva festival and they released Silver Tower, a energizing collection of songs influenced by late 90's rock. Chock-full of delicious and emotional melodies, Silver Tower is a perfect road trip album. Some of the songs have a haunting aura to them while others are more fast-paced and dancy making a great contrast in over-all sound (think The Strokes). Brenda have a bunch of shows coming up around New England including the Wilco Solid Sound Festival at Mass MOCA.

Jul 30 2010 10:00P Bayside Bowl w/ the Rattlesnakes Portland, Maine

Aug 10 2010 7:00P hallowell waterfront Hallowell, Maine

Aug 14 2010 1:30P MASS MoCA, Solid Sound Festival North Adams, MA

Aug 27 2010 9:00P Empire w/ Metal Feathers and Doomstar! Portland, Maine

Aug 30 2010 9:00P The Red Door Portsmouth, NH

You can buy Silver Tower HERE

--The Deli Staff
 

Are you a New England band or musician?  Have you toured through Boston?  Then I'm willing to wager that unless you were put on an existing bill elsewhere in Boston, you've played at All Asia Bar in Cambridge's Central Square.  Marc Shulman, the owner, is famous for letting just about anyone onto his club's humble stage.  He also gives the hosting band each night more freedom to do what they want with their time than many other club owners in Boston would be comfortable even considering.

So it is in true Marc fashion that he embarks on a new project, entertainment-minded for him and exposure-minded for the musicians he's hosted:  a playlist, indeed a mighty one, featuring every band and musician that has played there (and who have recorded music, of course).  The playlist will then be played over the house speakers at both All Asia and Marc's restaurant in Taiwan.  That's right - passive exposure both at home and overseas.

So, if you've played All Asia in the past and would like selections of your music to be involved, head over to this blog posting to find the link and password to a web drop box to which you can submit some or all of your music.  Marc has also offered to dig through all music submitted to find his favorites, so if you don't have the time to pick any "single(s)," Marc will do so for you.  So here's hoping you trust his taste.

- The Deli Staff