Always a good day when The Heavy Lidders are on the homepage, and the band sets a little singe on site with their latest single, “Counting Up and Down.” The album opener…
A second dose of synth and slink from Optic Sink slides out this week. The band, featuring members of Memphis outfit NOTS, embraces a slippery strain of synth-punk, feeling like heirs to…
Caught these guys a few weeks back on a stacked bill with Mountain Movers and Wet Tuna at Belltower Records in North Adams. The band rounds up a nice cross-section of Pioneer…
This ripe ripper from Detroit has been hounding the stereo for the past couple of weeks and it’s as raw a slice of motor city rock as you’re likely to hear in…
Well, I’m always a sucker for a new Ty outing and the new single finds Segall wading waist deep into prog’s welcoming waters. With a glycerine-lensed video by Denée and himself, the…
A second single slips out of the new Uni Boys LP and it’s another bout of power pop perfection. “Two Years” softens the smirk and sands down the end of the ‘70s…
It’s a day for catching up, and hell, I’m the first to admit my own blind spots and correct my errant ways. Filling in the gaps on some excellent EPS from West…
Another good one that slipped through the cracks, this first single from the Bay Area’s shoegaze set Seablite finds the band pushing as close to pop as they ever have. The first…
Making up for lost time on this one as I was out of town when this graced the speakers, but the new album from Hartle Road hits hard from the outset with…
Bloomington’s banner burners, The Cowboys, continue to be a Midwest secret gem that only gets better with age. The band has long been tapping the well of garage, R&B, power pop, and…
A towering single today from Chicago songwriter Maria Elena Silva features the artist’s accomplished backing band, which brings together Marc Ribot and Stephen Hodges for the first time since the pair collaborated…
The warm hug of hiss is seeping out of San Francisco and into the world at large. Alongside Cindy, Flowertown, and April Magazine, the Bay Area’s Tony Jay has been harnessing the…
Third Eye Stimuli is having a pretty banner year, and the latest single from Chet Sounds only solidifies that fact. The band, a solo outing from Uplifting Bell Ends’ Chet Tucker, moves…
The works of Jim Jupp, and in particular Belbury Poly, carry with them a sense of storybook wonder. The Ghostbox founder’s flagship band has quite often traded in a style that straddles…
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.