Top Local Songs of 2021

We asked our deejays “What’s your choice for the single best local track from 2021?” They came up with some inspired choices.

Top Local Songs of 2021

Chosen by	Artist	Song	Release	Label
Janelle (Supper Sessions)	Rainbow Girls	Doesn’t Make Any Sense	Rolling Dumpster Fire (album)	Rainbow Girls
Pamela Busch (5th Wave Radio/Queerly Drinking)	Marty O’Reilly & the Old Soul Orchestra	Lighthouse	Signal Fires (album)	Poison Torch Records
Scott Armstrong	tUnE-yArDs	Hypnotized	sketchy. (album)	4AD
Gage (Off the Hook)	Caitlin Cobb-Vialet	I Confuse Us	I Confuse Us (single)	War Chant Recordings
Kate (Pinkies Down)	Kronos Quartet/Mahsa Vahdat	Vaya Vaya	Vaya Vaya (single)	Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Sarah Wemmer (Della Fuoco, of the Alibi)	Comrade	Tools Down	Tools Down (single)	WOKEBRO
Evil’ Sandy Lucas (The Verge)	Nobody’s Baby	Acid in Marin	Acid in Marin (EP)	ORCHARD – Tiger Dream
Carolyn	Toads	Another Year	TOADS (album)	Sanctuary Moon
Andy Chaos (Shenanigans)	West Cult	Further Faster	West Cult Demo (EP)	West Cult MP3
Andy Chaos (Shenanigans )	Decent Criminal	Bizarre	DC EP (EP)	Sell The Heart Records/ Gunner Records
Stephen King (the Creep)	Succumb	Okeanos	XXI (album)	The Flenser
Zach Southern aka Del Sur, (The Chasm)	Glowing Brain	Everyone Higher Than Everyone Else	Brain Dust (album)	The Ghost Is Clear Records
Stephen King (the Creep)	Sonny & The Sunsets	The Letter	New Day with New Possibilities (album)	Rocks in Your Head Records
Bob Newman. (Mawkish Twaddle)	Seablite	Breadcrumbs	Breadcrumbs (single)	Emotional Response
Henry Wimmer (The Open Mind Music Experience)	Kelly Stoltz	Perpetual Night	Antique Glow (20th Anniversary Expanded Edition) (album)	Raoul Records
Dusty Kashi Flowers (Interstellar Nights)	Greg Ashley	Last Trip to Heaven	Radio MDMA (album)	Burger Records
Claudia Müller (DJ Meta / Kraut Out Loud	Bachelor	Aurora	Doomin’ Sun (label comp album)	Polyvinyl Records
Bob T. (dj segue extra-choice)	The Seshen	Dive (Salami Rose Joe Louis Remix)	Cyan Remixes – EP	Tru Thoughts
Bob T (‘Radio Bob’/ Frequency Uplift!)	La Doña	Setas Y Ceros	Setas Y Ceros (single)	s/r

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