In its print version, The Deli was a quarterly publication launched in 2004 by Paolo De Gregorio as an overhaul of an earlier, local fanzine founded by Charles Newman, a music producer and studio owner in New York City.
Its main focus is emerging independent artists in various locales and scenes: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago - it previously covered also San Francisco, Nashville, Portland, Austin, Kansas City, Philadelphia and the New England area.
(In 2011, the magazine's gear reviews ceased syndication, by limited partnership, from the music-production website SonicScoop,[1][2] and began occurring through The Deli technology blog[3] Delicious Audio.
)[4] Since 2005, The Deli website has included blogs, polls, charts, and live listings updated daily.
(On its website, The Deli used to code music genres with respective icons: a hamburger for rock, a hash brownie for psychedelic, a fish for electronic, and a soup can for ambient, etc.)