Deli Nation,

Our Year End Poll for Emerging SF Bay Area Artists was - as usual - a painstaking (and somewhat excruciating) process, but we pulled it off with remarkable flair!

Kudos to vintage sounding psych rockers Down Dirty Shake (pictured) for winning it! Thumbs up also to dissonance masters Disappearing People (ion second place) and to bronze medal winners indie pop high fivers French Cassettes who bring a wave of optimism to this truly out there top 3... but it's SF, baby! (Oh and there's no medal, really...)

Here is how it all went down: first, we let the local bands submit their music (for free), and got our Deli editors to pick the nominees. Then we polled a list of 15+ SF Bay Area scene expert (our jury, list at the bottom) and asked them to nominate 3 more bands of their choice each. Then we polled our writers, then we polled our readers. We tried to keep things open for each single genre, from Indie Rock to Roots Music to Hip Hop.

If you are a geek interested in all the subtelties related to how this poll works, you can read its rules here (happy reading!). But if all you care about is the awesome new music SF Bay Area produced in the year 2013, this list is all you need. Enjoy!

BEST OF 2013 POLL FOR EMERGING SF BAY AREA ARTISTS ****** FINAL RESULTS ******

ARTIST J W OS R TOT   1 Down Dirty Shake 7     1.5 8.5 2 Disappearing People 6 1   0.003 7.003 3 French Cassettes 3   3 0.051 6.051 4 The Love Dimension 6     0.015 6.015 5 Chasms 6     0.006 6.006 6 8th Grader 3 1   0.052 4.052 7 Meat Market 3 1   0.012 4.012 8 JAM 2   2 0.004 4.004 9 Everyone is Dirty 3     0.096 3.096 10 Sea Dramas     3 0.045 3.045 11 Twin Steps 2 1   0.037 3.037 12 Black Cobra Vipers 3     0.008 3.008 13 Cellar Doors 3     0.005 3.005 14 Happy Fangs 3     0.001 3.001 15 Major Powers & The Lo-Fi...     1 2 3   California Honeydrops 2     1 3   Koruscant Weekend 2 1   0 3 18 False Priest 1   1 0.091 2.091 19 Range of Light Wilderness 2     0.046 2.046 20 Miserable 2     0.011 2.011 21 Fuzz 2     0.009 2.009 22 Fine Steps 2     0.007 2.007   Warm Soda 2     0.007 2.007 24 Gitter Wizard 2     0.005 2.005 25 Cold Beat 1 1   0.004 2.004   Asteroid #4 2     0.004 2.004   The Family Crest 2     0.004 2.004   There's Talk 1 1   0.004 2.004 29 Blackbird Blackbird 2     0.003 2.003 30 Art Elliot     1.5 0.024 1.524 31 Devin Farney     1.5 0.018 1.518 32 Agony Aunts     1 0.5 1.5   Airs 1     0.5 1.5 34 Owl Paws     1 0.092 1.092 35 Down and Outlaws 1     0.082 1.082 36 Seshen 1     0.069 1.069 37 The She's 1     0.053 1.053 38 Chris Klippel     1 0.035 1.035 39 Fritz Montana     1 0.027 1.027   Religious Girls 1     0.027 1.027 41 Hot Lunch 1     0.025 1.025 42 Electric Shepherd 1     0.016 1.016   Spider Heart 1     0.016 1.016 44 Psychic Jiu Jitsu 1     0.015 1.015   Scraper 1     0.015 1.015 46 Front Country 1     0.004 1.004 47 Churches 1     0.003 1.003

Hope you'll find some awesome new artists you weren't aware of!

The Deli's Staff