Check out the Best New Local Music of 2023 – as voted on by you!

Check out the Best New Local Music of 2023 – as voted on by you!

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Do you want to hear which local music made the list for our end-of-year playlist for the annual of 2023? Look no further! Here’s our round-up of the best new songs from local artists. We played them – and you voted on them! After tallying hundreds of votes cast by our listeners, here’s the best new local music from 2023 – according to our listeners:

1 Love Crumbs with Cloudbelly : Vacant Dream
2 Dennis Crommett : Three Cheers For The Weekend
3 Hidden Skyline : Aspen Grove
4 Kimaya Diggs : If You Love Me
5 Thus Love : In Tandem
6 King Manzi : Put It In A Letter
7 Cloudbelly : November
8 Gentle Hen : Birds of Massachusetts
9 Misty Blues : Where Your Blues Come From
10 The Nields : That’s What We Do
11 Glad Machine : Can We Still Fall In Love This Summer
12 Ruth Garbus : Whisper In Steel
13 Guitarmy Of One : Soylent Seafoam Green
14 Johnny Memphis Band : Running Late
15 Hayley Reardon & Judit Nedderman : Changes
16 Fancy Trash : Lost In The Evening
17 Jake Manzi : Get Along
18 Sandy Bailey : Get The Message Through
19 Robert LaRoche : Home Again
20 Wallace Field : Breaking Promises
21 Fever Dolls : Halcyon Days
22 Ian St. George : Kimberley
23 Lost Film : Big Talk

Thank you to everyone who took part in our poll, and to our sponsors for this year’s Top 93 Countdown: DSP Shows and Provisions.

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