A kind of indie rock that seeps into your subconscious, Cotillon's music is the background to a sunny day in the park - or maybe it just triggers that thought. It's fresh and sweet but also nostalgic and blue. Even on a first listen, you intuitively feel like you've heard it somewhere before. Blending groovy, irresistible hooks with acoustic-heavy instrumentation, and production from the likes of Al Carlson (St. Vincent, Wild Nothing, Ariel Pink) and Shane Butler (Quilt), Jordan Caros, the man behind the Cotillon moniker, offers us a classic sound we've all been missing - without knowing it. The band will be performing several shows in Austin during SXSW, including one at Hotel Vegas on 03.18. - Andrew Strader

We added this song to The Deli's playlist of Best songs by emerging NYC artists - check it out!

Computers sometimes make us do things we don't mean to do - and that's not always bad. I meant to assign a blurb about band Hiccup to our contributor Dave Cromwell, but my email was hijacked by an auto-complete function... the message reached instead Sonicscoop.com's founder/editor David Weiss (who never writes for us about bands). Unexpectedly, he went ahead and replied with this:

"Ready for some rockin’ rockin’ ROCK? Hold on to your rearview mirrors and prepare for a fast ride of poppy punk!!!!! 'Imaginary Enemies' by NYC trio Hiccup is FOR REAL, all drums guitar grit and gorgeous that descends on your ears like a beehive buzzzzzzzzzzzin’ with it.

Alex! Hallie! Piyal! Catch them on March 10th at SXSW, March 14th at Sidewinder in Austin, or back in our little cow town of NYC March 26th at Rough Trade. The latter especially apropos, because if you like it ROUGH – and lovely – then Hiccup is what’s up. And don’t keep that on the down low." - David Weiss (Sonicscoop.com)

P.S. Thanks David!

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We've been following harpist Pamela Martinez's project Teletextile for a while now (check out this interview from 2009), and it's great to see good things happening for an artist that has always been pushing the envelop and trying new things. Pamela recently started performing in British songwriter Chad Valley's band, and joined him on a tour spanning from the Philipines to Austin for SXSW, and to Europe later in the spring. Just before the tour, Teletextile released an EP entitled The Lark, accompanied by a series of videos, the first one of which we are premiering below. Expect more music and videos from this project later in 2016.