It´s that time of year again! Former Deli Magazine San Francisco´s Artist of the Year, Down Dirty Shake has curated their 4th Annual Residency at Milk Bar in San Francisco. This year you can anticipate performances by:

Lee Gallagher and the Hallelujah
Annie Girl and the Flight
Zodiac Death Valley
Hungry Skinny
Everyone is Dirty
Down and Outlaws
Battlehooch

and more!

The residency occurs Every Wednesday in July along with two Saturday events on July 9th and July 23rd!
http://www.milksf.com/ to get tickets $5 in advance, $10 at the door 

¨I want to build a community of like-minded artists in the Bay Area. We'll be featuring bands, artist, projections, dancers, djs and public speakers talking about the real issues in SF and what we can do about them. The Residency is starting to become a staple and cult classic in our thriving Bay Area music scene. I loved how hard it was to pick which acts to have on the lineups. There are so many talented bands in the Bay that I actually had to add two dates to accommodate the amount of bands. I could easily could have had a year long DDS Residency.

My expectations for this years residency is to inspire more people to become apart of the Bay Area music scene. I would like to attend more local shows after this month and have the residency artists collaborate and network long after this residency.¨ -Kyle DeMartini of Down Dirty Shake

Editor's Note: Jonathan Cárdenas of Pow Magazine and San Francisco Great Society put a lot of time into curating this exclusive peek at the upcoming festival, Gathering of the Tribes. This fest celebrates and works to promote and preserve the spirit of psych music in San Francisco. Founder, Dennis Gonzales is very passionate about his work and his efforts to support psych musicians from all over the US. The Bay Area is lucky to have him and the community of amazing promoters and musicians who help keep the spirit and tradition of supportive, familial music and arts communities alive and well. -je

The Gathering Of The Tribes is a festival centralized exclusively in itself and its own breed of musicians and artists. San Francisco has had other festivals in past years, but this one aims to showcase the Bay Area’s breed of psychedelia and its sub-genres, as well as celebrate its musical and artistic ancestry. The name is borrowed, or you could even say revitalized—resurrected—from the Human Be-In that took place in Golden Gate Park, January 14, 1967. This is when Haight-Ashbury became symbolically immortalized as a counter-culture mecca. Our festival celebrates San Francisco’s past and present, and aims to push forward its music and arts in a positive and progressive direction, preserving it for the good of the Bay Area and to keep things groovy.

“We are the San Francisco Preservation Society—God save the Acid Tests, Beatniks and notoriety.”

Hopefully you got that reference. But no, we’re the San Francisco Great Society. 

Founder, Dennis Gonzales: I've been running Pow Magazine since 1986 and being entrenched in the music community for several years as a social media journalist, I can tell you SF music is not only alive, it is about to explode into a new movement unlike anything seen since the first music scene in 1965. Everything about our Society and our festival is a familial, grass roots effort.  Amoeba is sponsoring the event—they too have promoted it on their Facebook page as well as Twitter. Pow Magazine, Counter Culture Artist Management, and Innerlight Presents are altogether presenting this festival. We have reached out to the best of the Bay, and most have said “yes.”

Clay Andrews of The Spiral Electric and Innerlight Presents: If the festival is comprised of bands that are all touring and far away, and everybody has all their records—that’s great and all; you have to bring people to the event, but at the same time it’s like—don’t just throw a fest where you just bring an import of things because that’s not really doing anything for the local scene. It’s not exposing people to what’s actually happening right now in their backyards.

Derek See SF DJ, musician and music collector: One thing I’m especially excited about is hearing and meeting bands that I don’t know even though they're local. Because of what i do for a living, i have to get up real early in the morning on weekends—I do go out and see live music when I can, but never as much as I’d like to, whereas at this festival I’m just super stoked to be able to experience and hang out with like-minded folks.

Performing at SFGS: Gathering of The Tribes
at Public Works in San Francisco on September 13th

The Gentle Cycle
Buzzmutt
The Spiral Electric
LSD and the Search for God
Down and Outlaws
Cellar Doors
Down Dirty Shake
The Love Dimension
Mark Nelsen
Sea Dramas
California Raga Association
Lee Gallagher and the Hallelujah
The Green Door
Carlton Melton
Mystery Flavors
The She’s
Electric Shepherd
Zodiac Death Valley

Visuals by:

White Light Prism - vimeo.com/user6728976
Mad Alchemy - www.madalchemy.net
Andy Puls - www.videopaws.com

DJs:

Abel Oleson
Derek See
Michael Tarin

The San Francisco based psychedelic gospel band, Lee Gallagher and the Hallelujah will be performing live at Slim’s in San Francisco on July 8th. They haven’t played a Bay Area show since April so if you’ve missed them, this will be your opportunity to experience their entrancing live show again.

The band will be supporting the fresh, postmodern blues rock band, Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas. This is going to be an exciting show because the energy and poignancy of both band’s understanding of throwback American music shines through their music. We love their interpretations of blues and gospel and appreciate the authenticity of their musical execution. These bands are pros and they play like it.

Lee Gallagher and Jessica Hernandez' voices will pretty much blow you away. Make your way out to Slim’s on July 8th! You won’t regret it.

San Francisco based psych gospel rock band, Lee Gallagher and the Hallelujah have a show coming up tomorrow night at Brick and Mortar Music Hall in San Francisco. They'll be performing live with psych band, Triptides, mod revivalist band, The Electric Magpie and surf metal band, Father Howl! This is guaranteed to be a mind melting rock experience presented by psychedelic visual artist and promoter Mad Alchemy. Make sure you support local music and build up as much psych rock enthusiasm your mind, body and soul can muster!!

Deli Nation,

Our Year End Poll for Emerging SF Bay Area Artists was - as usual - a painstaking (and somewhat excruciating) process, but we pulled it off with remarkable flair!

Kudos to garage rockers, Down and Outlaws, our new Deli SF Bay Area Artist of the Year!!!

Thumbs up to the awesome psych- soul band, Lee Gallagher and the Hallelujah:

And to the great indie-folk band, Assateague:

Here is how it all went down: first, we let the local bands submit their music (for free), and got our Deli editors to pick the nominees. Then we polled a list of 15+ SF Bay Area scene expert (our jury) and asked them to nominate 3 more bands of their choice each. Then we polled our writers, then we polled our readers. We tried to keep things open for each single genre, from Indie Rock to Roots Music to Hip Hop.

If you are a geek interested in all the subtelties related to how this poll works, you can read its rules here (happy reading!). But if all you care about is the awesome new music SF Bay Area produced in the year 2013, this list is all you need. Enjoy!

BEST OF 2014 POLL FOR EMERGING SF BAY AREA ARTISTS ****** FINAL RESULTS ******

ARTIST   J OS R TOT   1 Down and Outlaws   6.5   0.006 6.506 2 Lee Gallagher and the Hallelujah   4.5   0.025 4.525 3 Assateague   4.5   0.005 4.505 4 Cellar Doors   4.5   0.001 4.501 5 ​Indianna Hale   3.5   0.001 3.501 6 Friends W/O Benefits   3   0.082 3.082 7 Summer Peaks     3 0.03 3.03 8 Cotillon   3   0.007 3.007 9 Balms   3   0.004 3.004 10 Fritz Montana   3   0.04 3.04 11 Michael Musika   3   0.004 3.004 12 Useless Eaters   3   0.004 3.004 13 Cool Ghouls   3   0.003 3.003 14 Vanwave   3   0.003 3.003 15 King Woman​   3   0.002 3.002 16 David Brookings and the Average Lookings   1   2 3 17 The Classical   2   1 3 18 Wildwood   3   0 3 19 Meet Me in Orbit     1 1.5 2.5 20 Unconditional Arms   2   0.5 2.5 21 Miss March     2 0.076 2.076 22 Breakdown Valentine   2   0.05 2.05 23 The Hot Toddies   2   0.046 2.046 24 Front Country   2   0.017 2.017 25 Once and Future Band   2   0.014 2.014 26 Queen Crescent   2   0.007 2.007 27 The Seshen   2   0.006 2.006 28 Hot Flash Heat Wave   2   0.004 2.004 29 Martin Luther   2   0.004 2.004 30 Con Brio   2   0.003 2.003 31 Sugar Candy Mountain   2   0.003 2.003 32 The Asteroid #4   2   0.003 2.003 33 Tumbleweed Wanderers   2   0.003 2.003 34 Void Boys   2   0.003 2.003 35 Waterstrider   2   0.003 2.003 36 Yassou Benedict   2   0.003 2.003 37 City Tribe   2   0.002 2.002 38 Cocktails   2   0.002 2.002 39 Hot Lunch   2   0.002 2.002 40 Steep Ravine   2   0.002 2.002 41 Uke-Hunt   2   0.002 2.002 42 Violence Creeps​   2   0.002 2.002 43 ​fpodbpod   2   0.001 2.001 44 Luke Sweeney     1.5 0.5 2 45 Mansion   2   0 2 46 Pow! ​   2   0 2 47 Spencer Owen   2   0 2 48 The Love Dimension   2   0 2 49 WILD EYES   2   0 2 50 Goodnight, Texas     1.5 0.003 1.503 51 Before the Brave   1   0.069 1.069 52 Builders     1 0.057 1.057 53 Jet Trash     1 0.019 1.019 54 Royal Jelly Jive     1 0.011 1.011 55 Buffalo Tooth   1   0.006 1.006 56 Lemme Adams     1 0.006 1.006 57 Black Cobra Vipers   1   0.005 1.005 58 Mondo Drag   1   0.003 1.003 59 Brogan Bentley   1   0 1 60 Fleetwood Macrame   1   0 1 61 The Spiral Electric​   1   0 1 Legend: J = Jurors, W = Deli Writers, R = Deli Readers, OS = Open Submissions

Jurors List:

Doug Kinsey - The Night Light
​Alex Lilienfield​ - The Chapel
Dan Strachota - Rickshaw Stop
​Travis Busse​ - Neck of the Woods
​Sam Lefebvre​ - East Bay Express​ ​
Brian Zisk​ - SF Music Tech Summit​
Victor Casillas Valle - The Bay Bridged 
Barry Smyth - Brick and Mortar Music Hall
Jessie Woletz - Seaweed Sway
Shawn MacGee - Amnesia Music Hall 
Anisa - Sofar Sounds
Lowell Galliani - Local Music Supporter
Lynne Angel - El Rio
Audra - Thee Parkside
Ash Reiter - Hickey Fest
Jordannah Elizabeth - The Deli Magazine San Francisco

Hope you'll find some awesome new artists you weren't aware of!

The Deli's Staff