The Fake Bookie saga continues, as is now becoming a Bandcamp Friday favorite around here. Wet Tuna return for a fourth installment of their series of extended jams and covers, this time…
The past year has seen the constant pushing of dates and with One Eleven Heavy that meant pushing not only a tour, but also the recording of a third album. Its been…
Making good use of their record collection in this new video, Chicago’s FACS lay out an ode to influences on “Strawberry Cough.” Pairing the song’s venomous slink, and growling guitars with a…
Eiderdown have a whole fresh batch of stuff that you need to dig into as soon as possible and among releases by Elkhorn’s Drew Gardner and fellow picker Josh Medina lies this…
When John Andrews’ last album sidled onto the speakers it was a nice extension of some of the quiet cool he’d gathered while in his band Quilt. While it stepped back a…
There’s been lots of good news swirling about the Powers / Rolin camp over the last 12 months, with two of my favorite releases out last year via Feeding Tube and Trouble…
A second dose descends from Gabe Flores’ Grave Flowers Bongo Band, this time picking up stakes and moving crosstown from Permanent to Castleface. The band’s first single brought their first dose of…
It’s no secret that this one has been locked on the speakers over here since it reached my hands. With a handful of killer singles already out in the ether, it feels…
A brand new psychedelic soaker courtesy of New Haven’s Headroom. The track popped up on Sweden’s Dischi Del Barone label, covering two sides of a 7” at the tail end of 2020,…
This one definitely took me back to the old Blogspot days of the site, though my connection with Urdog predates Raven by a good two years. As I’d begun trawling through the…
This week marks the release of Bobby Lee’s follow-up to his excellent 2020 debut Shakedown in Slabtown. Double the joy because the first LP is getting a vinyl UK vinyl edition while…
If your Friday is looking for a little comedown, then the new cassette from Landon Caldwell (Crazy Doberman, Creeping Pink, Thee Open Sex) should do the trick. A part of Trouble in…
There’s an air of borrowed time about Russel Hoke’s The Melancholy Traveller. Not that Hoke has passed or is about to, but that he’d seemingly hung his instruments for good by 2016.…
Happy to see that one of my favorite cuts from The Peacer’s new LP, Blexxed Rec gets a video this week. The excellently named “Ghost of a Motherfucker” is blessed with a…
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.