A little while back I covered an older gem from The Vacant Smiles and last week Spoilsport put out an EP from the band’s Seamus Whelan and James Lynch. Along with members…
As stated, it is kinda nuts in hindsight that at their pinnacle, Birds of Maya trucked out to the venerable Black Dirt Studios in upstate NY, recorded a ripper of an album…
A solid double-sider from Love, Burns. The band is the work of Phil Sutton (Pale Lights, Comet Gain, Cinema Red and Blue). With back to back jangled gems on this single, Sutton…
With a stunner (an recent RSTB 2021 Favorites pick) under his belt already for the year, guitarist Matthew Rolin aims to put another one on the list before year’s end. Along with…
To be fair, Idee Fixe had me at Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn on this one. The Canadian songwriter has been on a tear of excellent country-folk albums of late, and he’s always been…
Been a moment since I’ve heard from Spanish foursome Melenas, whose LP for Trouble in Mind was a gem when it was released in 2020. Today the band returns with an inspired…
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…
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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