Slipping out early this summer, the new album from Dan Horne still feels criminally overlooked. Horne, more often known behind the boards (Mapache, Pacific Range) or as part of larger ensembles (Circles…
Aussie outfit Workhorse put out an excellent record last year, and if you’re not well acquainted with No Photographs, I recommend a listen. Harriet Fraser-Barbour digs into the sessions for the album…
Three years on from their last outing for Feeding Tube, Frank & The Hurricanes are back, and just in time to save summer nights and sunbaked afternoons. The band continues to refine…
A heady, thick offering from new Chicago group Traysh surfaced over the holiday, with a new album slated for release on Ryley Walker’s Husky Pants imprint. The band features Walker’s longtime collaborator…
2023’s American anniversary feels particularly fraught with ill ease — a cocktail shaker of shame and trepidation mixing with the roman candle smoke. Through the haze, Tobcacco City offer up an ode…
A different side of Goat surfaces this week, finding the band in decidedly more reserved environs that usual, at least from the first strains finding their way here today. The band has…
The country hits keep on coming today. Swinging the focus from cosmic covers to the rougher end of the ranch, the debut from Animal Piss, It’s Everywhere brings a heavy dose of…
Really digging this first single from Oslo’s Podcasts. Following a 2019 AA single, the band announces their debut for perennial RSTB favorite label Prefect Records today. Shifting away from some of the…
Following the new single from Swedes Fort Not yesterday, Meritorio offers up the first cut from new signing Small Intestines. The Aussie band brings the jangles, but leans more towards the homegrown…
I’m always happy to shine a light on another track from RSTB fave Keven Louis Lareau, and this one comes with the added pleasure of announcing a new endeavor from the good…
Another glimpse into the new collaboration from Steve Gunn, John Truscinski, and Bill Nace slips out today. “Tape” fosters a more discordant side of the upcoming Glass Band. Nace’s contributions ping around…
A decidedly stark, yet stately turn for Leah Senior on her latest single from The Music That I Make. Often indebted to Anglo-folk, while digging into more pop-oriented strains, “Where Am I…
Athens outfit The Pink Stones launched into view with a barroom-born country that was bound to haunt a jukebox or two for years to come. They refine that reputation on their sophomore…
Mapache let out another excellent single from the upcoming Swinging Stars, and like early offering “People Please,” “Ghosts” finds the band straying from their more staid work, filling the room with the…
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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