NJ melodic prog rock band Days Before Tomorrow recently won Record of the Year in the 2009 Los Angeles Music Awards. Their CD, The Sky Is Falling, produced by rock industry legend Ron Nevison (Led Zeppelin, Heart, Jefferson Starship, Survivor, Kiss, Europe, Damn Yankees, Ozzy, and more) combines huge multi-part vocal harmonies with big hooks and intricate musicianship like classic 70s and 80s arena bands, but with a modern songwriting approach.

One of our favorite hobbies here at The Deli is to brag about how much earlier we covered and/or booked some local bands that were later blessed by international recognition... Here we go, then: we first covered Au Revoir Simone in 2005 - the band also played a Deli show at quaint and cozy Pete's Candy's Store in Brooklyn. They were a brand new band at the time... we knew they were good, but we weren't expecting that they would sell out arenas in Japan and China within a few years...
The three charming ladies will be back in their hometown in early 2010 for a show at Highline Ballroom on Thursday January 7. We have a bunch of free tickets available for readers: to enter the contest send us a 3 to 5 word description (or, better yet - make a Haiku) about the music of your favorite 3-girl-armed-with-synths band to this address: info [at] thedelimagazine.com. The 2 best entries will win 2 tickets to the show.

Submission Deadline December 11. Good luck!

The Deli Staff

Scrambler Seequill announce their debut LP "Secret Passageways" on Layered Records, and are offering four free downloads from the album. Accompanying the downloads is the debut music video for "One Design", produced, directed and visually designed by Seequill - which was made with a $200 budget - and as much invested in beer and coffee.

Frenchkiss/Mom+Pop Records just announced the signing of Freelance Whales - who packed the house at our CMJ Saturday afternoon party at the Delancey. The band will leave on a winter tour with Fanfarlo and play Webster Hall on December 18.