Local Waves received over 100 tracks from 15 new releases last month, here is a roundup:

NEW RELEASES

Catskill based harpist turned cosmic-country queen Mikaela Davis has a new LP Graceland Way out this month on the legendary Kill Rock Stars label. Whole thing is worth a spin, as she flexes her roots-rock range, but the standout for me is “Spring Petals In The Snow.”

Ben Seretan and John Thayer (Greene County’s finest) released the excellent, pillowy ambient record Sunbeam of No Illusion. You can basically hear the snow melting and the leaves growing

Violinist Kaethe Hostetter (under the moniker K8A) is based in Kingston NY, but spent the better part of a decade in Ethiopia, studying and playing with musicians there. Woradj Alle shows how she moves through these indigenous music ideas, often with just looped violin and effects, which Kaethe pulls off effortless live as well.

Wappingers Falls based The Schwegs make fult tilt, late 90s style emo-punk (think Yellowcard, Saves the Day), their new EP Fully Cooked sounds like a classic.

Fresh off our Local Waves at the Local series, Meg Lui just dropped a cover of the Cranberries classic “Dreams” as a follow up to the excellent “Gone Girl” from January, look for a record later this year. Her partner Keenan O’Meara also has a new record on the way (on country star Zach Bryan’s Belting Bronco Records) check out beautiful live version of new track “Gone GirlGod’s Last Hunter.”

Speaking of, New Paltz based Laura Leigh, just dropped a Gone Girlgreat EP in that classic outlaw country vein, with songs about bad relationships, bad lovers, and runaway trains. Highly recommend.

Recorded alone in a small cabin in Woodstock, Jeremy Bass’s Cabin Songs is a really beautiful collection of instrumental guitar, at times ambient, but mostly in a pastoral, americana vein.

Newburgh neo-soul artist Danny Junior’s Five Five Five record came out in January, and has that perfect blend of smooth jazz chords, harmonies, and Danny’s soulful vocals.

Kingston indie rock outfit A Whole Nother has been dripping out tracks for a few months now, and now the full length self-titled record is out. Slightly jammy tunes with a hint of 90s rock pop.

Jim Metzer’s new track “The Golden Door” comments on the importance of immigrants in our nations history, and is a collaboration with many Hudson Valley musicians, including the Ars Choralis choir based in Woodstock.

Flotstudio out of Red Hook has been releasing some really interesting, long-form, sound collage tracks on their bandcamp, which blends field records from hikes in south korea with other found sounds and even some music samples. If you’ve got the time, check ‘em out.

OLDER RELEASES

We also got a 2024 release from Kerhonkson based glam-psych rockers The Duke of Surl, Two 2025 singles from Peekskill born-and-raised Austin Kopec, the experimental folk–pop of bi-coastal group xLamas on their 2025 release.

-Mike Amari of Chosen Family Presents

Local Waves airs every Friday at 8PM. All local artists are encouraged to send your music into to be added to this ever growing library. Send to music@wgxc.org with ‘‘Local Waves’ in subject, mp3s (320kps) or Bandcamp download codes are preferred!