June 2025 Hudson Valley Sounds
New music from Jaded Azurites, Michael Bisio, Will Stratton, and Jason 'Wolfman' Martin.
Jaded Azurites — Columbia County-based poet Karen Schoemer on voice and Mike Watt from the Minutemen on bass — release their sixth album on June 27. Below, “Inshallah,” is out now, written by schoemer/watt, produced by watt, with train footage by Schoemer, and Gaza footage by Shorouk Mohamed Abu Deeb for the video edited by Schoemer.
MICHAEL BISIO
Hudson Valley-based bassist Michael Bisio on this just reissued 1983 recording with Richard Mandyck on saxes, Ron Soderstrom on trumpet, Beth Chandler on violin, Bob Nell on piano, and John Bishop playing drums.
ARONE DYER
Arone Dyer (from Hudson-based Buke and Gase) leads her Dronechoir on Saturday, June 28 at Roulette Intermedium, at 509 Atlantic Ave., in Brooklyn with a live webstream here. Dyer has a preview of the show, and an update on her volunteer fire-fighting, here.
Fast Forward FireFighter!
Next show is June 28 at Roulette in Brooklyn, NYC
WORLDSUCKS
This partially-local band is righteous, donating a portion of proceeds to each tour to a different cause. This month’s Worldsucks tour one ends up in Troy.
WILL STRATTON
Beacon-based Will Stratton is off to Europe in July.
JASON WOLFMAN MARTIN
The imminent arrival of a new album from Troy-based Jason “Wolfman” Martin is the biggest news in Hudson Valley music this month. Martin specializes in snappy, weird pop songs, makes entrancing low-fi experimental analog videos, and often wears hybrid wolf-human costumes in his “Power Animal System” project. So far, all we have is a social media-shared track list of the forthcoming album.
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