A slightly more compact peek into Howlin’ Rain’s Dharma Wheel lands today. Following the release of the 16+ minute title track, the band lets out the slippery funk of “Don’t Let The…
The last Scott Hirsch album hit me unaware and lingered long after, a mix of bittersweet country contemplation and JJ Cale permanent midnight vamp. It remained one of my favorites of that…
The first single from Rural France’s second album is a fuzzy blast of ‘90s puff paint riffs, GBV succinct melodies, and Bill Fox home recorded charms. The band calls out trying to…
At their core, Motorists pull back to the cluster of years wobbling over the wall from the last gasp of ‘70s into the early ‘80s. The band devours the sneers n’ stains…
This one’s been simmering since last week, but too good to let slip by. Virgil Shaw joins the Rocks in Your Head roster for an LP on the way in October. The…
The third release from Mouth Painter works more as a soundtrack than perhaps an album proper. The band sequences it in such a way that it showcases their various shades with a…
On their collaborative new LP, Marisa Anderson and William Tyler create a new American Gothic for a year upended. Named after Mark Fisher’s cultural theory of the loss of potential futures, dealing…
This one snuck out last week but I was unable to get a good listen until over the weekend. L.A. trio Uni Boys let loose a new double dose of goodness over…
Been seeing these guys pop up all over the Western Mass area opening for some familiar names and letting out live recordings in heavy heaps. The band sported a record on Feeding…
A few years back a fuzzed and faded tape hit the site by Oakland band Hits. Beneath the tape hiss haze the band hid plenty of hooks and a good dose of…
A third single from Maston’s upcoming LP, Souvenir, lands today, a lounged, sun-sweltered instrumental slink by the name of “Swiss Franc.” With the help of Swiss funk freaks L’Eclair backing him up,…
An affecting and deeply rooted album from Patrick Shiroishi surfaces today. The saxophonist had created an album inspired by his grandfather’s experiences in U.S. internment camps with Descension, an anguished and rightfully…
I’ve really been loving the singles from this upcoming album from Canadian trio Motorists. The latest chucks some of the power pop panache from their earlier cuts for a more serrated guitar…
2008 just wasn’t ready for Soft Walks. In the din, the hiss, and the thrum of the lo-fi swelter that was the sunset of the oughts, a gem was buried beneath the…
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.