I honestly can’t get enough of this debut from Chime School, the solo outfit from Francisco musician Andy Pastalaniec (Seablite, Pink Films, Cruel Summer). A bit softer than the past offerings, “Wait…
Gothenburg’s Hollow Ship expand their debut album from last year, a release that was a bit overshadowed by its April release during peak pandemic last year. The album was a psych-rock ripper,…
This year’s been crammed full of essentials and surprise faves, so its getting hard to rise above the fray but the upcoming LP from Tonstartssbandht comes in as their strongest album yet,…
Following up their debut Modern Convenience with a quick shuffle in the abbreviation department to Modern Condition, Aussie trio Mod Con continues to bite down on the bare wire of punk to…
LA.’S Dummy didn’t need too much running ground to get up to full speed. With two EPs out last year (on Popwig and Born Yesterday) the band all but launches into their…
After a (quite literally) monster of an album last year, Frankie and the Witch Fingers preface a US tour with a greasy rockslide of riffs drenched in sweat rag soul. The double-shot…
Injecting a bit of humor into the space rock racket, Sweden’s Fanatism hit out this week with their second single “Wooden Shoes,” and an accompanying video that plays up a bootleg shoe…
I’m nowhere near the fist to tell you that this album from Myriam Gendron should be holding court on your speakers, but to be fair, it takes a bit of time to…
Well this is a nice one to find floating around the ether. Bitchin’ Bajas have been Spaceways cartographers for sometime, but it seems now they’re mapping an original system, creating a tape…
The vapors of private press one-offs and outsider psych-folk swirl strong on the debut LP from Easthampton’s Gold Dust. The band, a moniker for Stephen Pierce (Ampere, Kindling), is a departure from…
Psych-pop snagged by propulsion is at the core of the upcoming Dummy record, but the band is by no means a one-note network of influences. The rather resplendent, and surprising pre-album release…
It’s impossible to give everything a fair shake around here, and I’ll be honest, the release of Fruit Bats’ LP The Pet Parade slipped by me last year. Really digging into this…
So much good news today, I’m trying to breathlessly get to it all. Seems that RSTB faves Modern Nature (feat mems of Ultimate Painting, Sunwatchers) has a new project on the way.…
The jams just keep coming from The Heavy Lidders this year and in the wake of their excellent and essential album for Arrowhawk, the band serves up a very limited tape for…
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.