This Friday, make your way over to Rock'n'Roll Hotel for an awesome local line-up featuring headliners Mission South joined by Dirty Names, and NYC's Tauk. Mission South (an outstanding contender in our yearly Best Emerging Artist campaign) is a DC trio of best friends dishing out an alternative indie sound, and are currently on an extended US tour going on now through November. Check out their latest video for "Peaches" below. Maryland rock and rollers Dirty Names will be unveiling new music to the masses on Friday, and rumor has it- if they win this month's Deli poll, they'll release a new song! NYC's experimental rock-fusion Tauk will no doubt lay out some key instrumental tracks from their latest release Homunculus, a record in which Grammy winning producer Robert Carranza was on board.

It all goes down Friday Sept 13 @ Rock'n'Roll Hotel. Doors @ 8 PM

The results are in from the Open Submissions stage for our DC/Baltimore Year End Poll for Emerging Artists. All of the submissions were ranked by Deli Editors from other scenes and the list of acts that have advanced to our Readers’/Fans’ Poll phase are below. We will also be releasing the list of nominees chosen by our local "scene expert" jurors very soon.

Thanks to all the amazing bands and artists who submitted this year. It was an overwhelming response, which just goes to show how awesome our DC/Baltimore scene remains to be.

Total Submissions from the DC Area: 44

Qualified to the final phase of the Best of DC/Baltimore Poll (having scored above 7):

1. Dance for the Dying 8.5 (out of 10)

2. Masked Superstar 8.33

3. M.H. & His Orchestra  7.66

4. Brooks Long  7.66

5. The WeatherVanes 7.33 

6. Ghost Hotel 7.16

7. Alex Vans 7.16

8. Pleasure Curses 7.16

9. The Young Rapids 7.00

10. Mission South 7.00

11. Sun Club 7.00

Honorable Mentions:

Jurors: Chrissy Prisco (Deli New England), Brianne Turner (Deli Nasville), Paolo De Gregorio (Deli NYC).