A second jangler from the upcoming Semi Trucks album sneaks out today. The LA band’s pop is pancaked between layers of lo-fi, feeling like a xeroxed transmission from the indie pop past…
Snock returns and we’re all better for it. After a string of reissues through Feeding Tube, The Time of the Foxgloves marks the first new Michael Hurley album since 2009 and at…
A new dusted rambler from Aussies Ricky Albeck & The Belair Line Band lands today on Adelaide’s Swirl Records. While a new album hasn’t been announce yet, gotta hope that this is…
For fans of NZ indie pop The Clean will always be an essential inclusion in any collection, but far less gushed about is David Kilgour’s short-lived band Stephen. The band was formed…
It should come as no surprise at this point that the works that inhabit the Ghost Box bubble occupy a fevered delirium of television music memories, hypnogogic haze, and synth-pop saturation, but…
Haven’t heard the name Step-Panther in a bit, but it’s good to have the Aussie band back at it today. A new single “Bike Lock” picks up the gnarled indie yoke where…
An over-abundance of new music hits today, so I’m going to try to pack it all in. A while back I featured the excellent EP from Aussie quartet The Oogars and now…
Some ‘70s blues-baiting choogle out of Norway slips into the system from Years After. Barroom piano, some Black Crowes swagger, a dash of Allman’s sweat, and that cigarette rasp all lock the…
I’ve gushed a bit about April Magazine, one of the new wave of SF slowcore cum indipop bands that seem to be cutting traction overseas a bit more than at home, but…
I admire the fluidity of Traffik Island, the solo banner of Zak Olsen (Hierophants, ORB). While the first LP took on an acid-dabbled psych persona that found refuge in the debris of…
RSTB favorite Jake Robertson (School Damage, Ausmuteants, Hierophants) returns under his guise of Alien Nosejob. The moniker has served as a rotating genre exercise that lets Robertson try on a few pop…
Got a new video from Scottish outfit Buffet Lunch today, following nicely on their LP for Upset The Rhythm last year. With isolation in mind, the band seek to siphon the feeling…
Got a new round of Design Inspiration today, and it’s a designer whose covers and posters have popped up in rapid succession of late. If you’ve hung around any corners of the…
As the world seemed to get smaller and the walls closed in for more than a year, it feels like elixir for the soul to get an album that’s as spacious and…
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.