I’ve had Jantar on my radar for a while but never gotten a chance to give one of their releases a proper review. The latest takes a bit of a shift away…
While the soul half of the label will always garner the attention, Daptone’s rock Imprint, Wick, has long set itself up as a discerning voice for the less obvious choices. Their latest…
The past decade has been fertile for the Aussie underground, with a new wave of guitar bands soaking up their not to distant indie past and melding it with wafts of US…
Got a new cut today from Montreal’s Feeling Figures. The band comes on huge and hovering for this short format killer debut. “Person of Tomorrow” gnaws its teeth on a thick froth…
The new collab LP from Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles already hit out string with the instrumental romp “Joy Ride,” but that’s only one shade of their new album. While the last…
The debut from Nashville’s Styrofoam Winos has been longtime coming, with the band forming in 2016 sharing local stages along the way with Josephine Foster, Bill Direen, and Simon Joyner among others.…
This one’s definitely not getting the attention it deserves within the riff ravaged scrawling of the psychedelic press. The band started almost on a whim, beginning as a weekend one-off show between…
Loved the debut EP from New Orleans chooglers Silver Synthetic last year and with “In The Beginning,” the band announces their first LP for Third Man coming on April 9th. The song…
While he’s been shredding the fabric of the universe for years in Borbetomagus, among other like-minded noise/free jazz outlets, Donald Miller joins VDSQ’s latest crop of acoustic guitar offerings to show another…
One of the joys of last year was the ambient country-flecked album, You Become The Mountain from Jeffrey Silverstein and he’s returned just a few months later with an EP that continues…
Since the crack of the aughts, one of the most consistent sources of primal rock pummel has been between the runouts of an Endless Boogie LP. While all around them rose up…
As the rusted bite of Wireheads receded in the distance a misshapen form grew out of the rubble and Dom & The Wizards took shape. Over releases scant in form and hard…
While the band’s last album tried to fill the collective hole in their hearts from the loss of bandmate Zac Denton, on their latest, Cool Sounds seek a sound that trends towards…
It’s already been a hell of a day full of announcements and tracks, but this may as well serve as a timely reminder that Sunburned Hand of the Man have a new…
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.