The Deli is an independently owned music magazine and online website/blog started by Paolo De Gregorio. The project is based out of Brooklyn, New York and currently covers multiples cities and multiples musical genres.

History and Function

The Deli began in 2004 as a continuation of a previous local fanzine. It covers in print independent bands and artists relevant to the different areas and scenes. Although bands that have been featured in the past when they were independent have since moved onto to record labels, only independent bands, or bands without a record label, are covered in the print issues. The print edition of the magazine is quarterly. Both the magazine and online versions include editorial on the current music scene, band and industry interviews,classified ads and album and gear reviews each relevant to their specific city.

In addition to covering the local music scene, The Deli also hosts live music events through the cities it covers. The most relevant is The Deli's Best of NYC Fest, happening in the Spring in NYC and tied to the publication's Best of NYC Yearly Poll, whose jury is comprise NYC booking agents, bloggers and scenemakers.

Cities covered by The Deli

The Deli website has expanded between 2007 and 2009, covering music scenes in multiple cities with daily updated blogs, polls, charts and live listings. The cities include: New York City, Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, Chicago, Illinois, San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

, Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

, Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

 and Burlington, Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal....

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Deli Iconography

The Deli uses their own icon coding on their website for the genres that they cover. Keeping in line with their food-oriented moniker, they use food to represent different genres of music; like a Hamburger to represent rock or Hash Brownie to represent Psychedelia. A fish is used to represent electronic music or a soup can for ambient, etc.

Issue History

Featured Artists

Issue #1 Grizzly Bear (band)

Grizzly Bear (band)

Grizzly Bear is a Brooklyn-based indie rock band, composed of Edward Droste , Daniel Rossen , Chris Taylor and Christopher Bear . The band employs traditional and electronic instruments...

 

Issue #2 Hopewell

Issue #3 Nicole Atkins

Nicole Atkins

Nicole Atkins is an American singer-songwriter. She has been compared to Roy Orbison and singers from the Brill Building era.-Early life:...

/Sylvie Lewis

Issue #4 Diamond Nights

Issue #5 The Occasion

Issue #6 The Negatones

Issue #7 The Jealous Girlfriends

Issue #8 The Big Sleep (band)

The Big Sleep (band)

The Big Sleep are a three piece band based in Brooklyn, New York. The band consists of Sonya Balchandani , Danny Barria , and Gabe Rhodes...

Issue #9 Professor Murder

Professor Murder

Professor Murder is a dance punk quartet from New York City that mixes synthesizers and percussion-based compositions in a method that has drawn comparison to post-punk and new-wave bands of the early 1980s and late '70s. They released their critically hailed debut EP, Professor Murder Rides the...

Issue #10 Arizona

Issue #11 Parts and Labor

Issue #12 The XYZ Affair (band)

The XYZ Affair (band)

The XYZ Affair is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The band consists of Alex Feder , Chris Bonner , and Russ Maschmeyer , who met while attending New York University...

Issue #13 Claire and the Reasons

Issue #14 Yeasayer

Yeasayer

-History:The band's three core members, Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, and Anand Wilder, first came to attention after appearing at the SXSW festival in early 2007. Their first single consisted of a double A-side of the tracks "Sunrise" and "2080"...

Issue #15 Apes and Androids

Issue #16 Semi Precious Weapons

Semi Precious Weapons

Semi Precious Weapons is a rock band from New York City consisting of Justin Tranter on vocals, Stevy Pyne on guitar, Cole Whittle on bass and Dan Crean on drums. Pyne replaced former guitarist, Aaron Lee Tasjan, in November 2008...

Issue #17 Crystal Stilts

Crystal Stilts

-History:Crystal Stilts was formed in 2003 by Brad Hargett and JB Townsend. After releasing one single and an EP, the pair expanded to five members before signing to Slumberland Records in the US and Angular Recording Corporation in Europe and releasing their debut, Alight of Night, in 2008...

Issue #18 Chairlift (band)

Chairlift (band)

Chairlift is an American electronic pop Duo.Based in Brooklyn, New York, Chairlift consists of members Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly .-History:...

External links

• The Deli - official website