A melancholy new single surfaces today from perennial RSTB favorite Pearl Charles. Often draped in country comforts or squinting through the neon and silver glare of disco’s last dust up, this time…
Keeping the rock flame fully lit, Billy Tibbals has been a powerhouse of power pop over these past few years. With a history of brief, but bright releases, Tibbals sticks to the…
MA ambient country collective Old Saw returns this morning with a new dose of earthen atmospheres. The band threads the needle that binds SUSS and Daniel Bachman’s latter day works, finding a…
Following a pristine early string of albums, EPs and singles, Ohio’s The Laughing Chimes have settled nicely into their “ones to watch” digs. The band preps a new single for Slumberland this…
Six Organs have spent years in the Hexadic tangle, ambient sleep cycle, and electric flash of The Veiled Sea, but for Time Is Glass, Ben Chasny returns to the fogged shores that…
A new chunk of charred and scarred psych-pop is on the way from Honey Radar. The Philly band has been a perennial favorite around here and they’re prepping a new album for…
Can’t get enough of the debut LP from Lightheaded. The NJ janglers slipped onto the year-end list last year with their infectious EP and they aim to tighten their hold on the…
I have to admit, even I’m not immune to ‘90s nostalgia, but where the rest of the world seems to be searching through radio singles from the summer of ’94, I’ve been…
No Quarter’s always snagging the good ones and the latest addition to the roster sees Steve Gunn, Jim White, Zoh Amba, and Shazad Ismaily connect for a new outfit that explores the…
An inky, aqueous single slinks out today from Giant Day, the psych-pop project from Derek Almstead (Circulatory System, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Glands, Elf Power, of Montreal) and Emily Growden. The…
From the opening, sickened, sweaty guitar tones that rip through “Barbarians,” Philly’s Writhing Squares singe the senses and prepare the listener for their latest sonic onslaught. The world boils, tensions mount, cancers…
Nestled among the ranks of the latest edition of the Raving Pop Blast! Fanzine’s new companion CD is a brand new track from RSTB favorites The Smashing Times. A lovely, low-key jangler…