LA Readers,

The Deli Los Angeles's Best of 2012 Readers and Fans' Poll for local emerging artists is over, thanks to all those who cast their vote in support of the emerging local bands and artists in our list of nominees. Congrats to electro pop queen Iameve (pictured) for being The Deli Readers' Best Los Angeles Artist of 2012! Kudos also to psych blues trio The Vim Dicta and electronica wizards Zaptra, who placed second and third. 

Here's this poll's top 10 chart, full results can be found here.

ARTIST VOTES   1 Iameve 975 2 The Vim Dicta 614 3 Zaptra 279 4 Thrown Into Exile 269 5 Kan Wakan 250 6 Meg Myers 215 7 Nightmare Air 176 8 So Many Wizards 120 9 Zak Waters 80 10 HOTT MT 67

Stay tuned for the composite chart, to be released soon, which will include the point nominees accumulated from the jurors and Deli writers' votes, and will crown The Deli's Best Emerging Los Angeles Artist of 2012.

The Deli's Staff

We've tallied the results for the Open Submissions stage of our LA Area Year End Poll. 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 rad folks who submitted their heart and soul to us - we never received as many submissions from LA as this year! Our open submissions pool was truly a celebration of the LA Area's talent and diversity.   

Total submissions from the LA Area Scene: 85  

Qualified to the final phase of the Best of LA Area Poll:

1. Little Red Lung - 7.6 (out of 10)
2. Fake Furs - 7.5 
3. The Morning Birds - 7.5 
4. So Many Wizards - 7.3 
5. I Hate You Just Kidding - 7.3 
6. Cotillon - 7.16 
7. Nightmare Air - 7 
8. Dark Furs - 7 
9. IAMEVE - 7 

Honorable Mentions (Score above 6.5): The Smoking Trees (Psych Pop), Maston (Indie Pop), Hi Ho Silver Oh (Folk Rock), megachoir (Electronica), of Verona (Electro-pop), The Cigarette Bums (Garage) 

Jurors: QD Tran (Deli Philly), Brandi Lukas (Deli contributor), Paolo De Gregorio (Deli NYC)

The Deli Staff

Today, Tiff Randol (more recently known as IAMEVE) released the latest in a series of twelve songs debuted in April. Every month, as she builds up to the full-length release of her new project 'The Everything Nothing', she reveals another step in the blossoming of Eve Ami, and every month we watch her evolve on the cover of a single. The lost, drowning girl of April's 'Throw Me A Line' has gained confidence, she's a 'Temptress', glamorous in her feathers, dangerous; the stage is where you reinvent yourself, and the album describes this journey, the rebirth of Eve like David becoming Ziggy, delivered with the force of a powerful pop voice that grows more seductive by the single. If this is far from being Randol's first output, who has behind her an album and two EPs, it is surely her strongest narrative effort to date; she's a storyteller you see, and as she lets this tale unfold step by step like she did with 'Polyamourous' in 2009, each time there's a suspense in the course that makes the next release all the more exciting. - Tracy Mamoun