Somehow its already June and its time to creep into the summer with a new edition of Crawl Out From The Fallout. This month on the radio show I packed in a…
More news out of the Allah-Las camp today. Following the announcement of their new album, the band’s Pedrum Siadatian returns with a new record under his alias as PAINT. The long running…
A bit of scorcher reaches the speakers this week from Montreal’s Private Lives. The Canadian quartet captures a match-lit plume of punk on the album’s opener “Trust In Me.” The song percolates…
Quite a nice surprise to find a new Sonny & The Sunsets album on the way this year. It’s been a while and there’s always something reassuring about Sonny’s sun-warmed strums. The…
A new single arrives from the upcoming (and highly anticipated around these parts) new record from Mikaela Davis. The songwriter’s direction has wandered further towards a Cosmic Americana tilt, and that strain…
No knock on the last couple of years, but the bulk of music that’s been released in the first half of 2023 has been particularly excellent. It was truly hard to whittle…
While the new Allah-Las album might share a name with Young’s ’75 classic, the first single “The Stuff,” seems to imply that the band is working closer to creating their Trans than…
Bringing together a bevy of familiar names around these parts, the maniacally monikered Animal Piss, It’s Everywhere announce their debut for Half A Million Records. The band, featuring members of Sunburned Hand…
A Cosmic Country gem crops up in Sweden this week, making a strong showing for the debut from Northern Lights. The new single sways slow, baked with a dusk-light glow and a…
In The Air flutters out of the speakers soft and supple — a silk scarf caught in the wind. The record was crafted here in the green expanses of Upstate NY, a…
Another gem from the Curation Records stable tumbles out of the speakers this morning. Idaho songwriter Jake “Freeman” Dejongh taps into a shade-grown version the of ‘70s vision — conjuring up Cale…
The ever-mutable Aussie scene is constantly producing bands that seem to spring up for an album or two, only to be dissolved by the players’ other obligations and conflicting schedules. That only…
The new record from Guadalajara’s UAY captures a rhythmic psychedelic spirit culled from works from across the globe. Finding the connective tissue between Erkin Koray, Guru Guru, Os Mutantes, and Kikagaku Moyo,…
A second single from the upcoming new record from Mapache hits this morning and it’s just the dose of bittersweet bliss that early summer called for. While we’re just getting started, “What…
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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