I’m not always one to celebrate album anniversaries, but I’m a sucker for expanded editions so with the 25th Anniversary of The Heads’ absolute crusher of a debut on the horizon this…
Last year I put together a mix of newer heirs to the jangle-pop pantheon and sitting right in the middle was L.A.’s Massage. Though, to be fair, I could have made the…
After years of soul-charred psych-folk perfection and an excursion into mathematical systems of compositional chance, Ben Chasny has taken the mantle of Six Organs of Admittance into its most fried chapter yet.…
A few years back I did a mix of Cosmic American music, a collection of country-tinged, sun-soaked songs from ’69 and beyond designed to feel the vibes slow down to a simmer…
After a string of unbeatable singles the full length from San Francisco’s The Telephone Numbers arrives this week and its a sweet a collection of jangled gems as you’re likely to find…
A new record from indie greats Damon & Naomi is on its way this year and they’ve tapped friend and fellow luminary Michio Kurihara (Ghost, White Heaven, Cosmic Invention) to help out.…
A voluminous blast of space rock lands today from Toronto’s Comet Control. The band, which features members of Quest for Fire and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, melds a biker-psych appetite for riffs…
At this point, Mountain Movers are becoming a New England psych institution, finding their niche between the sun’s core burndowns of Major Stars, the cratered excavations of Sunburned, and the stalwart chug…
Aussie trio Mod Con bring a brooding and sinewy new single today, the first taste of their upcoming sophomore LP Modern Condition, out in October from Poison City Records. The track garrotes…
It’s kind of amusing to think of Southwest psych conjurers The Myrrors as having ‘singles’ per se, but their latest release boasts to wrap up just such a collection. To be fair…
What seems to be most endearing about Australia’s Shrapnel is that they have no fear of skewing towards record nerd impulses, splattering them all over the expanse of their new record Alasitas.…
Got another jangled gem from the upcoming Tubs EP on Trouble in Mind today. The band, who, like their compatriots Ex-Vöid grew out of the amicable dissolution of Joanna Gruesome, launches into…
Well it seems that the ambient guitar gods continue to smile upon us as Williams Tyler enters his second inspired team-up of the year. Having already announced his collaboration with Marissa Anderson,…
In a short time the new label from Foxy Digitalis’ Brad Rose has grown to become a perfect crossection of what’s historically made FD great and what makes the reignited site such…
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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