Footings is one of those bands that feels like a secret handshake. If you’ve got Footings records on the shelf, you’re digging into the kind of musicians musician steads that scratch way…
It’s been a little while since RSTB faves The Heavy Lidders have graced the site, but seeing as we’re embarking on the anniversary of them tearing down DITV3 with a searing “Dark…
Another highly anticipated trio sets loose a second single today. Heavy-psych supergroup Orcutt Shelley Miller spent a few months scorching the coasts before committing this set from Zebulon to tape. The set…
The arrival of Shrunken Elvis’ debut has been met with excitement around here. A long gestating project that seemed to only be available to Nashville locals for a long time, but now…
Emerging from the cocoon of their early days on Ty’s God? Records, Oog Bogo find their footing in a record that balances cowlicked riffs with butter-smooth harmonies. The band waded through a…
A nice slice of indie pop out of Providence today. Time Thief features members of Jeanines’ live outfit (Zoë has played bass with them off and on), and fans of the band…
It feels like just yesterday that bi-coastal duo Dimples was a fixture on the speakers, but their excellent Soul Chateau has already been in the rearview for three years. It remains a…
With the Family Band in tow, Amram picks up a tradition of slouched country charms, sauntering his way through the songs on To The End with a sly smirk. Every note has…
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve had a Snapshot, due to some site vacation, but this week hits back big time. With a huge rundown to help get you settled…
Another great single seeps out from L.A.’s Street Fruit today. The band’s last single was the psych scorcher “Drug Face,” a prickly psych-pop pummeler doused in scented smoke, but for the the…
The New Eves have been on the radar around here for some time, an essential new voice balancing solstice and sorcery, folk and punk, dissonance and desire. Early in the band’s run…
Another perennial favorite resurfaces today with the announcement of a new solo album from Jeff Tobias (Modern Nature, Sunwatchers). Tobias’s last solo record moved the needle closer to pop than ever before,…
Thrilled to see this one crop up this morning. Ever since the band’s announcement of East Coast dates, including this year’s stacked Woosist Fest, there’s been hints at a new album and…
Good news from the Circles Around The Sun camp! The band celebrates both their origins, and the 60th anniversary of The Dead with a callback to their early days when they assembled…
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.
The site is written and maintained by Andy French.