Musical peoples from San Francisco and beyond.

A few weeks are left before the end of 2009, and the time has come for our end of year musical "summary". Yes, you got that right: The Deli's "Best of (emerging) San Francisco 2009 Poll" is upon us!

This year we'll have an overall chart including the votes from Jury, Writers and Readers, and a Readers' charts including only the readers' votes.There will be other prizes in vouchers, software and studio time for all the top artists in both charts.

We have a lot to tell you about this, but as this poll couldn't happen without sponsors, we'll start by listing them all, and by thanking them for being part of this.

 Instructions about the poll coming soon!

PREMIUM SPONSORS

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OTHER SPONSORS

Software

providing a total of 18 audio plug in for the pool of prizes (9 iZotope, 9 IK Multimedia) 

Mastering
 
providing free mastered songs for the pool of prizes 

Recording Studios
  
providing free recording for the pool of prizes

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If your company is interested in sponsoring "The Deli Year End Best of Poll" it's not too late! Just contact us here.

The Deli Staff
www.thedelimagazine.com 

It was just announced late last week that Bay Area based bands Wallpaper, John Vanderslice, The Limosines  alongside The Magnetic Fields, Mark Kozelek, Oakland's Rogue Wave and a bunch of others at the 2010 Noise Pop Festival.  The festival, which is now in its 18th year, will run from February 23rd to March 1st 2010 spanning 5 different venues in the city.

For the full lineup check out the Noise Pop site. Festival badges are now on sale for $150

-Nicole

This week Daytrotter released 3 exclusive recordings from San Francisco's psych folk foursome Thee Oh Sees. Two of the recordings, Destroyed Fortress Reappears / Gold and Rudy Go Home are from 2009's Help, while the third recording, Mega Feast, has yet to be released. You can download all of the tracks here.

Thee Oh Sees will be back in San Francisco playing The Eagle Tavern on January 14th.

-Nicole

The community arts space Artists Television Access (ATA) will be celebrating their 25th Anniversary this weekend with two evenings of fantastic entertainment. Friday, December 11, 2009, 7:30 pm at a FREE film & video screening party that includes work by founders, staff and associates from early 80s to the present - 29 different artists in total.

Sunday, December 13, 2009 will be the 25th Anniversary Fundraiser Party. An all-day event with live music from a slew of Bay Area musicians, performances, installations, bbq and a raffle to win stuff from a bunch of local businesses. Bands lined up for the day The Lambs, Jeremy Dalmas and Friends, Young Prisms, Bare Wires, Ash Reiter, Kacey Johansing, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson, Eats Tapes, Psychic Reality and Rank/Xerox. 11am-10pm, $10. Visit their site for a full schedule.

-Nicole

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I have to admit that I haven't watched a lot of the music based prime time TV shows that I hear people talking about. I've never seen an episode of Glee and I think I could name you 2 American Idols, but my ears perked up this week when I heard that a song from Oakland based Oona was featured on So You Think You Can Dance last week. The soulful pop ballad Tore My Heart provides the foundation for a very mysterious and haunting choreographed dance. Since the show aired, the song broke the Top 100 iTunes singles which is a pretty big deal for any independent musician.It's good to know that the big media corporations are paying attention to independent artists in the Bay Area.

-Nicole