Written By: Hunter Stroope

When magic ceases to prevail, the darkness of tragedy overrides. The American born soul singer, PP Arnold seemed to have leapfrogged over destiny into tragedy and back again upon her every motion.

From performing as a back up singer for Ike and Tina, then becoming a label mates with The Rolling Stones by signing with Immediate Records in 1966, she was then forced to surrender her own solo recording attempts to the historically dreadful bureaucracy of the music industry’s interior. Continue reading →

Written By: Lauren Espina

As computers continue to dominate the face of modern music, The Warlocks have been crafting guitar-driven neo-psychedelic tunes since 1998 and has offered consistency to listeners with an affinity for moody, 1960s-inspired rock and roll. Much has been said about the group’s cult status, as they have been described as underrated and underground at the center of many journalistic features.

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I wrote this the day I heard about Seymour Hoffman’s death. It’s part one of a culmination of some things I’ve been thinking about for months. -je

February 2, 2014

A week before Phillip Seymour Hoffman was found dead, I was sitting in my room watching an episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s current web series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. There was one particular episode where Jerry is having coffee with David Letterman, and he talked about how he felt life was very repetitious. He expressed that he’d been satisfied with his life for a long time and a big reason why he liked having children was because, “it was something to watch.” I know that sounds emotionally barbaric, but I understood what he meant. Seinfeld’s name is the title of the most successful television show of all time, and he’s never had any bad press, so when I saw the news about Hoffman’s death, I immediately thought, “He had nothing to watch.” Continue reading →

GINA ALEXANDRA DENTON
Baltimore, MD
Mixed Media

The uber talented Gina Denton is a veteran artist based in Baltimore, Maryland. We love her colorful, imaginative, psychedelic, asymmetrical  swirls and orbs of beautiful madness! We received a thoughtful statement about Gina’s work from her personal perspective.  Continue reading →

There’s something about being alive in 2014 that makes the possibilities of our human experience seem endless. The internet, solar powered cars, smart phones, online dating, thousands of television channels and the ability to travel anywhere on the planet are novelties that no human has ever had the pleasure…or pain of partaking in until now. Continue reading →

Written by: Lauren Espina

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Since its inception in 2008, Dead Leaf Echo has mastered a dark, pensive brand of new wave that drifts in a realm somewhere between dream pop and shoegaze. The Brooklyn-based outfit released its debut LP, Thought & Language, in 2013, capturing its wandering sonic aesthetic on a full-length effort for the first time after having released a steady stream 7″ and EPs. Dead Leaf Echo makes a return to the shorter format on its latest offering, the true.deep.sleeper EP, which officially drops on February 25th via Moon Sounds Records. Continue reading →

I learned about Pussy Riot before they were arrested and put in jail for “Hooliganism” and “hatred against religion” in February 2012. I’d been running an international music collective and music blog, called The Process Records and had become familiar with Estonian and Russian underground rock and roll through the grapevine of the European music scene.

I could write about dates, facts and create an intricate timeline of everything that happened to Pussy Riot, but what I’d like to do is express how these women are highlighting and even birthing a movement of soviet feminist ideology. Continue reading →

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Fantastic Plastic Machine ‎– Love Is Psychedelic / Beautiful Days 12 inch (Promo) Continue reading →

On March 8th at Amnesia in San Francisco, CA, The Deli Magazine San Francisco will be throwing an event to benefit the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp by giving a part of the proceeds from their upcoming event featuring performances by female fronted bands, Midnite Snaxxx, Primitive Hearts, Quaaludes, No Bone and Bestfriend Grrlfriend. Continue reading →

Written By: Hunter Stroope

Genre: “Synth Punk”
Label: Castle Face Records
Release Date: January 21, 2014

Pow!: An Analog Synthesis of punk and psyche, a fuck-all attitude on par with local success’s Ty Segall and Warm Soda, and the armed messengers sent from the local complaint department. They have recently released their debut album High-Tech Boom on Castle Face Records, carrying with it a constant theme, (or dare I say concept? I will…) and that theme is “We prefer San Francisco as a cultural collage, seen through the clear lens of Ray Ban, not through the pixelated dystopian view of the Google Glass (holes).” Continue reading →