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Local Waves: 2025 Recap
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Produced by Wave Farm staff and Mike Amari from Chosen Family.
In late 2024 Wave Farm's WGXC started the Local Waves initiative, to create and maintain a digital library of new, local releases, with an on-air show (every Friday 8PM and Thursdays 10AM) and conversations hosted and taped by Mike Amari with local musicians, record labels, and event creators (every last Thursday upstairs at Avalon in Catskill). Over the course of 2025, an incredible 114 unique artists/bands submitted 900+ tracks(!) which Mike poured over and added to the on-air rotation. Combine that with the initial 2024 effort to create this Library, and from 2020 to 2025 we have: 500+ releases from 350+ artists, with over 3700 tracks sitting as 30gbs on our hard drives, waiting to be discovered by you on-air every week.
For the first two hours of tonight's Local Waves, here's a special 2025 Recap selection of some of those artists and tracks for your listening enjoyment.
Tracklist:
Frown Town “Dark Green Curtains”
Miss America “23rd Street”
Breakfast in Fur “Heaven”
The Lowliest One “Cash Only”
King in Yellow “Dream Weapon”
The Fascinating Chimera Project “When I Was A Girl”
New Orthodox “Waves of Fear”
Lea Bertucci “In This Time”
Saapato ft Ben Seretan “Fur and Exhaust”
The Mammals “Families”
MIkaela Davis “11:11”
Will Epstein “That’ll Be Me”
Jackson Simpson “Take Me Down To Stewy’s”
Brother Jax “Balgue”
Karen Schoemer “August 16”
Allie Young “The Storm (Nicer Days Remix)”
Jennifer Ayala “Until Daylight”
Hashishen “Friends With Me”
Ghostbike “Syd”
Bird Week “Centipede”
Gary’s Dream “Cherry Blossoms”
Guerilla Toss “When Dogs Bark”
Kendra McKinley “Dizzy”
Jenna Nicholls “When A Good Love Goes Away”
Todd Nelson “Peregrine”
The Weeeds “Tell Me About The Wine”
Brasskill “These Boots Were Made For Walking”
Bradford Reed “The City on the Edge of Forever”
Escavela “Alas”
Produced by Mike Amari of Chosen Family, "Local Waves" celebrates the talented and multifaceted artists living in our local area. Tune in on Friday nights from 8 p.m. to midnight for music and sounds from artists and musicians living in the Hudson Valley, Capital District, and Western Massachusetts.
Send your files for airplay on WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears! Send a Bandcamp link with download code or mp3s (320 kbps) to music@wgxc.org with "Local Waves" in the subject line.
For a list of Local Waves artists, see the Local Waves initiative page.
Playlist:
- Dark Green Curtains / Frown Town
- 23rd Street / Miss America
- Heaven / Breakfast In Fur
- Cash Only / The Lowliest One
- Dream Weapon / King In Yellow
- When I Was a Girl / The Fascinating Chimera Project
- Waves of Fear / New Orthodox
- In This Time / Lea Bertucci
- Fur and Exhaust / Saapato feat. Ben Seretan
- Families / The Mammals & Mike + Ruthy
- 11:11 / Mikaela Davis
- That'll Be Me / Will Epstein
- Teach Me How to Dougie / Cali Swag District
- Balgüe / Brother Jax
- August 16 / Karen Schoemer
- The Storm (Nicer Days Remix) / Allie Young
- Until Daylight / Jennifer Ayala
- Friends with Me / Hashishen
- Centipede / Bird Week
- Cherry Blossoms / Gary's Dream
- When Dogs Bark / Guerilla Toss
- dizzy / Kendra McKinley
- When A Good Love Goes Away / Jenna Nicholls
- Peregrine / Todd Nelson
- Tell Me About The Wine / The Weeeds
- Corncob / Martin Courtney
- Vita D / Jelly Kelly
- How Can We Do This to Each Other / The Straps
- Super 8 / Ginger Winn
- Everywhere / KAZIMI
- spirals / Gushy
- National Hero / Will Epstein
- Sure As Hell / Divide By Zero
- Home In The Country / Mikaela Davis
- Air Lock / Photay
- August 11 / Karen Schoemer
- Winds / Dominick & the Family Band
- Ain't No Foolin' / Oobleck
- Falling Down / Dauber
- Cosmic Wife / Dmitry Wild
- Self Defenestration / Wayne.
- Grow Up / Jack Manley
- Where to Be (feat. David Ogilvy) feat. David Ogilvy / Dusty Wright
- Firefly in a Jar / Fred Gillen Jr
- The 9:14 to Window Rock / Brambles
- SMOKE THEN / D.HOLLOW
- fool / Battle Ave.
- COLLEGE TOWN / GREENHOUSELAKE
- No More Songs / Rosine
- Families / The Mammals & Mike + Ruthy
- Rockin' Robot / Tonus Maximus
- Spring Fever / Al Olender
- Second Rodeo (feat. Bing & Ruth, The Antlers & Port St. Willow) / Cowboy Sadness