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Morgan Delt’s Pedals & Synths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A95QBLePeFw LA-based Morgan Delt crafts acid-tinged tracks that are meant to be seen with your third eye. His music is blissful and hazy, with his soft vocals stretching across lush, textured instrumentals and sweet melodies. With such an expansive sound, we here at the Deli were curious about the kind of gear…... Click for more

Morgan Delt’s Pedals & Synths

Overlake’s Pedals and Creative Process

Overlake specializes in serving up gazey and delicious tracks that showcase strong songwriting chops. Though there’s enough wall-of-sound goodness to sink your teeth into, the band also manages to meld upbeat, indie-inspired choruses that you may find echoing up in the space between your ears all day. We asked them…... Click for more

Overlake’s Pedals and Creative Process

Heaven’s Pedals & Creative Process

A staple of the NYC music scene, Brooklyn band Heaven play music that sits somewhere between shoegaze and psych sensibilities and produces songs that act as sonic love notes to both genres. Their mind bending tracks have the ability to sound vast, sweeping and decidedly, not of this earth. Being the word…... Click for more

Heaven’s Pedals & Creative Process

Mutoid Man’s Pedals & Creative Process

[caption id="attachment_27284" align="aligncenter" width="610"] PC: Jammi York[/caption] NYC's sludgy, frenetic, and surprisingly melodic, Mutoid Man serves up nasty, heavy jams with a side of skilled riffage. Their latest release, War Moans, is 12-tracks worth of head spinning metal aptitude, so of course, we here at the Deli were very curious…... Click for more

Mutoid Man’s Pedals & Creative Process

Salt Cathedral’s Live Rig

This is a cool interview by REMEZCLA with synth pop duo Salt Cathedral about their gear and live show set up. This is a really talented, Brooklyn based band hailing from Columbia that has been covered extensively in our sister blog The Deli NYC. https://www.youtube.com/embed/T3m4YecxdnE The pedals they use are mostly for vocals,…... Click for more

Salt Cathedral’s Live Rig

The pedals of Electric Eye’s Øystein Braut – in 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9OU4f-hLSA You'll be hard pressed to find a current band that sounds more psychedelic than Electric Eye, but the Norwegian group throughout the years has evolved far beyond that genre's mind altering confines. The band incorporates spacey sounds and fuzzy drones paired against a slick classic rock aesthetic. With those thick,…... Click for more

The pedals of Electric Eye’s Øystein Braut – in 2017

Fruit & Flowers’ Gear & Creative Process

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTR246Km6co If you are feeling in the mood for surfy and grungey sonic fun, we've got a band for ya: they are called Fruit & Flowers and they hail from Brooklyn, NY. The four-piece is technically skilled, with fast-paced and fleshed-out guitar parts (as heard in tracks like “Pick Fairy”)…... Click for more

Fruit & Flowers’ Gear & Creative Process

Arthur Moon’s Pedals, Synths & Creative Process

[caption id="attachment_26601" align="aligncenter" width="612"] Photo by Mia Min Yen (https://www.instagram.com/miaminyenphotos/)[/caption] Avant-pop sextet, Arthur Moon, recently released their sonorously boisterous debut EP, Our Head, and since then, the record's delicate, electro-tinged 5 tracks have been defiantly stuck in our heads. Recently, three of the band's members, Lora-Faye Åshuvud, Nick Lerman, and Marty Fowler, chatted with…... Click for more

Arthur Moon’s Pedals, Synths & Creative Process

Prince’s Pedalboard Around 2012

The other day, one of our interns tragically spelled "pedals" with a "t" - guitar "petals" - which is actually kind of cute, since our beloved stompboxes do, in a way, look like colorful (square) petals. For fun, I Googled "petal shaped pedalboard" and this image popped up. A sense…... Click for more

Prince’s Pedalboard Around 2012

Sharkmuffin’s Pedals & Creative Process

NYC-based Sharkmuffin creates punchy garage rock wrapped in a fuzzy, '60s cool that is at once feminine and fearless. On the heels of a new album release, the masterminds behind the band, Tarra Thiessen (guitar/vox) and Natalie Kirch (bass/vox) gave us an in-depth look into the meaning behind their latest tracks,…... Click for more

Sharkmuffin’s Pedals & Creative Process

Field Mouse – Q&A about Pedals and the Creative Process

[caption id="attachment_26014" align="aligncenter" width="612"] Photo by Carly Hoskins[/caption] Philly and NYC-based Field Mouse have been known for their dreamy, shoegazey tunes, but while their hook filled songwriting is still on full display on their latest album, "Episodic," the five-piece's sound has evolved in a punchier direction, which is a bit more barefaced,…... Click for more

Field Mouse – Q&A about Pedals and the Creative Process

Guerilla Toss – Q&A about Gear and the Creative Process behind ‘GT Ultra’

[caption id="attachment_25737" align="aligncenter" width="620"] photo by Ross Brubeck[/caption] Brooklyn via Boston avant-punks Guerilla Toss are ready to enter the next stage of their career with the release of a new full-length (entitled "GT ULTRA") on DFA Records. The album steps up the production values by several notches, broadening the act's appeal without…... Click for more

Guerilla Toss – Q&A about Gear and the Creative Process behind ‘GT Ultra’