A newly minted outfit from Nathan Bowles (Pelt, Black Twig Pickers), Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors) and Joe Westerlund (Califone, Sylvan Esso) debuted last week, and as I start to pick up the…
There’s a hell of a lot of music today, but I’d be remiss if I left out the new single from Oslo’s Podcasts. Off of their upcoming album for Prefect Records, this…
Baltimore’s The Smashing Times made a surprise return this morning, following up their incessant jangler from last year with the upcoming This Sporting Life. The band offers up another shot of Television…
West Coast enclave Curation expands its UK stable, adding Brigthon’s The Evening Sons to their roster alongside labelmates Elkyn and Hollow Hand. Though, in truth, the band shares much more in common…
Another lovely Aussie cut today, this time surfacing on prennial favorite label Meritorio. The Sydney band offers up a lived-in and laconic slice of jangle-pop goodness. Sauntering slow, the song winds out…
A second stunner of a single from Aussies The Bures Band lands today. The band, which features RSTB fave Stephen Bailey (Mt. Mountain), embraces a sun-dappled vision of Cosmic Americana that expands…
The tangerine hues of sunlight dipping below the horizon that grace the cover of It Is Solved By Walking may be the truest advertising you’re gonna get for a Luke Schneider album…
Swooping into their second album, Aussie synth-punks Screensaver land hard with “The Guilt.” The first single off of the upcoming Decent Shapes, is wrapped around a hammered-steel pulse, twisted into a heat-warped…
A second offering emerges from the upcoming new album from Irish psych-folk outfit Moundabout. “The Hills Hum Hymns,” finds itself in a more serene temperament than previous single “Sacred & Profane.” The…
I talked a little bit about singles from this excellent debut from Boston’s Bong Wish a while back, but it’s absolutely worth digging deeper into the record. The band has evolved quite…
The last album from Aussie’s Uplifting Bell Ends dove deeper into the arms of the ‘70s and the latest solo single from the band’s Chet Tucker follows suit. Where the band found…
Been a couple of years since I’ve heard from South-hemi heroes Quality Used Cars. I quite enjoyed their Aussie meets Austin country cavalcade from 2021 and the band is back this summer…
Woods offer up another double shot from their upcoming album Perennial today, following a similar offering just a few weeks ago. Like scuffed-glass glow of “Between The Past,” there’s a bit of…
PAINT has always been a respite for Pedrum Siadatian’s more offbeat pop visions. Those that quite didn’t fit the laconic curl of Allah-las were given life under the project’s banner, but on…
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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