A second single bubbles up from the new Goat album today, finding the band mixing their fire-roasted riffs with a heat wave haze on “Join The Resistance.” The song lets in a…
Some good news out of the El Paraiso camp. The label, continually one of my favorite enclaves of EU psych, jazz, and library music has a couple of offerings on the dock.…
Longtime RSTB faves Frankie and the Witch Fingers let loose another sonic storm into the atmosphere, offering up one of their most scathing and searing records yet. The band has been making…
More power pop this morning to get your Friday moving. With a crisp wall of guitars and gently sanded harmonies, Falling Stars let loose with new single “Lonely Planets.” The band, featuring…
Nice bit of jangle pop here on a Friday morning with the Meritorio debut from Dutch four-piece The Maureens. “Alison” floats out of the speakers on strums undercut with a melancholy air.…
Over the past few years, Dutch outfit Lewsberg have been constant charmers. While their works never seem to sit still, never seem quite satisfied with the nature of their sound, the band’s…
A real languid burner here that closes out the debut from Atlanta’s J. Lansdowne. Where the bulk of his new album chews on the root of blistered blues, “Smoking Mirrors” taps into…
A little while back I featured a cut from the upcoming debut from Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band. Acting as the natural extension of what Davis was working towards in State…
A bolt of Americana comes careening out of the UK via Norwich’s Brown Horse. The band embraces a roots-forward sound with an overcast outlook parrying with the band’s melancholy yet glowing fiddle…
It’s been a full day of great music, but one more couldn’t hurt us, especially if its a lovely new single from site favorite Sally Anne Morgan. The songwriter has been teasing…
Now a longtime fixture on the site, Colorado’s Stefan Beck has a growing collection of releases as Golden Brown, and has already hit the mid-year essentials list with the debut release from…
The second single out of RSTB faves Hooveriii finds the band shrouded in smoke, coiled and calm, with a liquid light levitating the song a few feet off the ground. The last…
This one snuck out a bit under the radar yesterday, but I’d be remiss to not mention a new Badge Époque Ensemble record on the way this winter. The band offers up…
Pretty excited for this news, as just a little while back I’d done a piece in my Necessary Repress series extolling the virtues of Acetone’s If You Only Knew, an album that’s…
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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