The Indie Pop results of our Best of NYC Poll for emerging artists are always the most anticipated - beware though! These are just the Open Submission results, i.e. the list of indie pop bands that qualified to the next phase of the poll by submitting online; there will be a longer list soon including bands voted by our jurors.

Total submissions in this category: 28

Artists Qualified to the next stage (Readers' Poll, starting around 01.15):

1. Half Waif    8.5 (out of 10)
1. Hey Anna    8.5
3. Seasick Mama    8.33
3. Graph Rabbit    8.33

Honorable Mentions (scores above 7.16):

The Dirty Gems, Hurrah! A Bolt Of Light!, Coastgaard, Modern Merchant, The Roofer's Union, Truest, Beecher's Fault, Grand Cousin, Strip Darling, Dalton, dot and logic, Tropic of Pisces, Isle Of Rhodes, Marco Argiro.

Jurors: Charise Sowells (Deli Austin), Jordannah Elizabeth (Deli SB Area), PDG (Deli NYC)

Stay tuned for more results, and then for the readers' poll!

The Deli's Staff

As the summer winds down, there’s nothing like a good, clean, catchy indie pop tune to drag you back into enjoying the last sun and fun of the season. That’s what Hey Anna does. Hailing from NJ and Brooklyn, the band released in May a very solid EP titled "Pompette". Their catchy hooks are delivered by soothing female vocals, while an upbeat, edgy electric sound keeps thing moving in unexpected ways. Check out the song titled “Dance Until Three” below - you can get it here through a name-your-price system, together with the other songs on the EP, all are equally solid - and see them live when they play Bowery Electric on September 7th.  – Michael Haskoor (@Tweetskoor)

If you enjoy what we call "rootsy pop," Hey Anna is the breath of fresh air you've been waiting all year to hear. Their new EP's five tracks keep the material humming along on boardwalks and ice cream stands and long afternoons, for your private, immaginary summer-during-the-winter-months. Exchanging vocals for the journey, the group's three singers (Anna, Katie and Erin Rauch-Sasseen) complement each other with an unabashed joy for all things fun: tracks like 'Love, Love Baby,' 'Tiny Kiss,' and 'Once Again' could have been arranged for The Jackson 5 had the band been around for your parents' generation. This is some fun stuff. So hop in the car, and take that sightseeing road trip you've been putting off. The soundtrack has finally arrived. - Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

We added "Blackout" (streaming below) to The Deli's playlist of Best new NYC songs by emerging NYC artists - check it out!