Been chewing on this Lewsberg album over the weekend and both the singles have hit hard. In a way there’s a want to stay away from the VU tag, but hell, it’s…
New goodness out of Canada’s Idée Fixe Records this week and its draped in glittering psych-pop that’s hard to resist. Under the name of ROY, the rather anonymous Canadian collective weaves a…
Sunrise Ocean Bender doesn’t push product with the veracity that some labels seem to adopt these days, rolling out a few choice cuts over the last couple of years – Prana Crafter’s,…
After just a touch of what the band had in store on last year’s Microdose entry, Mosses embarks on a new full length for Anyway Record that springboards off of that EP…
More great news from the Black Editions Group. As they work through the PSF catalog, they continue to put great records back in their proper place among the stacks. This time the…
As I may have mentioned, its a particularly good year for official live recordings, with everyone from Mythic Sunship and Dungen laying down platters to Cool Ghouls, Chris Forsyth, and even an…
After a rather prolific run at the cassette guild, running tapes from labels like Moon Glyph, Field Hymns, Already Dead, and Centipede Farm, the mercurial entity known as Ak’chamel, The Giver Of…
I mentioned the relatively low-profile pop of Huevos II a little while back, but a deeper look into their inviting EP for Sophomore Lounge is worthwhile. The band boasts a solid lineup…
Been slowly sinking into the environs of Mr. Elevator’s latest batch of psych-pop and its finally taking hold. The band, anchored by Oh Sees’ Tomas Dolas, swims in the same magenta-hued waters…
The latest LP from Brooklyn’s Plates of Cake expands on their ability to sit comfortably between genres. The band cherry picks strengths from jangle-pop, power pop, and AOR tropes without fully investing…
Without fully emerging from their haze, Peel Dream Magazine’s sound comes into focus on their second LP for Slumberland. Following an EP that began the process of finding clarity from the shoegaze…
Among the artists that dominated RSTB last year, Jeffrey Alexander was one of the most prolific, showing up with Dire Wolves (in one of their best yet), on a solo jaunt for…
With so many great fingerpicked albums over the last couple of years its hard to believe that it’s been almost five years since there was a Sir Richard Bishop LP. Well, a…
Slumberland has been crushing it with the reissues lately, bringing back the lost singles of The Springfields, issuing a complete compendium of Wolfhounds John Peel sessions, and now they’re shining a light…
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.