Look What I Did hit you without mercy like a professional boxer - but they do it in a very sophisticated way, they're no thugs, they are like... artsy fighters. The band somehow manages to mix math rock with post punk energy and grandiose melodies sometime reminiscent of Enon and/or the later Faith No More. The band (that placed 17th in our Best of Nashville's Poll for emerging artists recently released this new video - a low budget thing that works perfectly in showcasing their spazzy charm. The band will be playing live at The End on February 5. Highly recommended!

Rockers, Folkers and Poppers of all ages, sexes and hair colors,

The Deli's regional Year End Best of Polls for emerging artists are finally over and it's time to have a quick look at what's going on outside your local scene. Here's a recap of the winners of our nine polls with links to overall charts and readers' polls results:

AUSTIN - Winner: Stereo Is a Lie
Overall Chart - Readers Chart - list of jurors

CHICAGO - Winner: I Fight Dragons
Overall Chart - Readers Chart

LOS ANGELES - Winner: Local Natives
Overall Chart - Readers Chart

NASHVILLE - Winner: Those Darlins
Overall Chart - Readers Chart

NEW ENGLAND- Winner: Mean Creek
Overall Chart - Readers Chart - list of jurors

NYC - Winner: Talk Normal
Overall Chart - Readers Chart - list of jurors

PORTLAND - Winner: Explode into Colors
Overall Chart - Readers Chart - list of jurors

PHILLY - Winner: Reading Rainbow
Overall Chart - Readers Chart - list of jurors

SF BAY AREA - Winner: Girls
Overall Chart - Readers Chart - list of jurors

The Deli's Staff

Local benefit show with lots of good Nashville bands this Thursday, January 28th, at YEAH! (an acronym for "Youth Empowerment through Arts and Humanity). It's an 18 and up live event from 9pm-Midnight featuring How I Became The Bomb, Shoot The Mountain and Hammertorch. Your $5 cover and the beer you buy will be a 100% donation to help keep YEAH! around - so get there thirsty! Enjoy this not too new video of How I Became the Bomb to get an idea of what is waiting for you.

Those Darlins might be remembered one day as the band that reinvented rock'n'roll by replacing the blues element with the garage one - could this sort of genetic mutation have happened in any other place than Nashville, in any other time than the new millennium? The band's musical recipe is as simple as it's effective, and the results are infectiously charming. Congrats to them for winning The Deli's Best of 2009 Poll (full results here), mostly thanks to the vote from our jury, that gave one a 1 point edge over electronic indie poppers The Non Commissioned Officers - a band with an ever growing line up.


 
Third place for theatrical epic video game celebrators The Protomen, who also won our Best of 2009 Fans' Poll (full results here)