I’m a bit behind here, but if you missed out on the radio show last week, here’s another shot to catch up. The show this month featured, as usual, a ton of…
Last I heard from Australia’s Adam Hipwell was on a solo set for the indispensable Island House Records. Hipwell’s kosmiche landscapes carved their way across Gardenworld and on its follow-up, he and…
RSTB favorites Mountain Movers are back with a new track this week as part of an excellent new compilation whose proceeds will go to the Gaza Soup Kitchen. An overcast cut that…
This record from Rosey Dust has been steadily spilling singles over the last year, but with the album finally out in the world, the band offers up one of its best that…
Portland’s Lavender Flu have always operated outside of the norms and forms of the average indie band. Letting garage and punk sluice through psych, soul, and folk, the band’s been a beacon…
Probably my favorite cut off of the upcoming new Silver Synthetic album, “Cool Blue Night” introduces a ripple of jazz to the band’s Cosmic American landscape. The song finds the core band…
Been a couple of years since Sister Wives have been on the speakers, but the UK outfit is back with a new single today. Following the deep-tissue burn of their debut, the…
The new single out of Montreal’s Private Lives kicks off the runnup to the band’s sophomore LP, a record boiled and burned and bound to draw blood. The first single, “Psychic Beat,”…
I mentioned this one a little while back, but it’s time for a deeper exploration of the debut from MA/VT alt ‘ indie explorers Creative Writing. The band lays things bare with…
Digital Regress bring another scorcher to the speakers. Though, in the case of Nowhere Flower, though the music melts the mind, but the aura is more humid and mossy than arid and…
This one snuck out a few days ago and deceivers a proper spotlight in the run up to the excellent new album from The Rishis. If the group’s off the radar, you…
Spunflower sprouted in the woods and wilds of Humboldt County’s fertile free music scene, assembled from members of DDT and White Manna. The band locked themselves away in a 120 year-old church…
More music out of The Tubs this week and I couldn’t be happier to have a song on the speakers. “Chain Reaction” finds the band at their most boisterous, pounding through breathless…
I’ll be far from the first to sing the praises of Horsegirl this year. The band built expectations on their 2022 debut, labeled quite vociferously as “youth’s return to the guitar,” which…
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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