This one popped up out of nowhere over the weekend and it’s a perfect accompaniment to the upcoming Wet Tuna album, Warping All By Yourself. Matt announced the new reocord on Three…
I’ve certainly said it before, but L.A.’s Forager Record are becoming one to watch in the reissue game. While most of the output has centered around dusted country, AOR, and loner folk,…
Dredging through things that got swept under the December rug turns up the announcement that Cali Cosmic Americana trio Credit Electric have been signed to Royal Oakie record with a new album…
Saw this one yesterday and didn’t get a chance to mention it, but good news for Plankton Was fans comes down the pike as Dewey’s 2017 Cassette Hidden Path is given the…
The grey days of February burn off with each note that seeps out of Ben Auld’s debut, Lemongrass. The UK songwriter mixes sunshine pop with lilting seeds of Canyon Country and aughts…
Some excellent psych-jazz news tumbles down the chute this week with the introduction of new Canadian imprint Ansible Editions. The label is an offshoot of RSTB faves Idée Fixe. The label barrels…
More news out of the Emily Rose camp. I missed this one a little while back, but after the the Pink Mountaintops single that featured Rose cropped up this week, news of…
It’s petty plain that there needs to be an Acetone revival… and soon. The band has long been a bit of an band’s band — influence to many, but largely left out…
Haven’t heard enough about this band out of the UK, but their fingerbitten punk pounces out of the speakers, leading to some anticipation for their debut next month. Appealing to fans of…
One of my top favorites of last year was the excellent new album from Rosali Middleman. It could easily have been a toss-up between No Medium and the more scathing glory of…
Surfacing for the first time since 2014, Stephen McBean’s Pink Mountaintops exist as the other side of the Black Mountain coin. A bit more loosely thematic, the band has embraced pop impulses…
On Great Lakes’ Contender, songwriter Ben Crum swings between indie facets — digging out dark psychedelics from the dirt one moment and skating on the remnants of Bob Mould and The Wrens…
Been missing some ‘riders on the hill’ psych-folk in my life this year, and to fill that Pentangle/Trees/Espers shaped hole in my heart, this new release from The Order of The 12…
Got a new cosmic country gem from West Coast staple Dan Horne. While Horne’s name might not be on the tip of tongues everywhere he’s made time in bands like Circles Around…
Raven Sings the Blues started as an MP3 blog back in 2006, when such a thing existed. Eventually it evolved into a daily music review site focusing on garage, psych, county, experimental, indie and crucial reissues.
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