Friday saw the release of the second excellent offering from Matt Rolin and Jen Powers this year — Matt’s third LP of the year if you’re countin’. This time the duo picks…
Brand new single from L.A.’s Dummy snuck out over the long weekend and there’s a dizzying new video here to accompany the cut. As with the bulk of the upcoming Mandatory Enjoyment,…
Constantly on a hit streak, Slumberland offers up the first single from San Francisco’s Chime School. The band is the solo project of Andy Pastalaniec (drummer for Pink Films, Cruel Summer, and…
Last year one of the one of the most essential Bandcamp Day releases came as a live recording from Chris Forsyth and a one-off combo of Dave Harrington, Ryan Jewell, and Spencer…
Golden Brown’s music has been quietly blossoming in the mountains of Colorado for some time now, but with his first outing for Inner Islands, Stefan Beck seems have found a crystalline well…
A ferocious second single from Aussies Mod Con throttles out of the gate with a sneer and scathing rhythm. Swapping between a voice of rich indifference and nail-bitten future anxiety, the band…
A true oasis in the swelter of Arizona is long-running psych-shaman unit Myrrors. The band has amassed an impressive collection of long play rituals, but given that their home at Beyond Beyond…
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…
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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