Every few years or so the assembled members of Terry convene and crank out a barnacled gem of Aussie indie. It’s been five years since their last, and, to be fair, the…
RSTB faves Woolen Men are on a continual tear through singles these days and this week they offer up an excellent cover of The Nerves’ “Workin’ Too Hard,” harnessing a scuffed-up fuzz…
The last few years have seen quite a few artists embrace the cosmic corners of country and the earthen, yet expansive niches of Americana. In quite a few ways the current musical…
Another faded photograph of a single slips out from the upcoming Vanity Mirror record. The band, the duo of Brent Randall and Johnny Toomey, both spent time in the ‘60s-soaked psych-pop outfit…
One more for the country crowd today. The new album from Kassi Valazza is a worn and wearied collection of country that embraces the troubador’s path. With an air of Emmy Lou…
It’s a good day for some lived-in country vibes and continuing the crush of new singles is one more look behind the curtain at the upcoming Rose City Band LP. This record…
The singles that have come from the camp of Keven Louis Lareau (Cut Worms) have all been killer distillations of cosmic country and sunlit Americana. They’ve been few and far between, but…
Despite his current Nashville environs, Spencer Cullum is still anchored more firmly to UK shores of his East London upbringing than to the Cumberland Valley’s more signature sounds. Bringing to bloom ideas…
A second single from Manchester’s Sumos lands today, injecting a jolt of jangle into your Thursday. “Small Talk” keeps the tide of fuzz roiling underneath the sunny strums, chewing on noise and…
Got a Spring edition of Crawl Out From the Fallout on the air this week. If you missed out, no worries, the show is up on the archive over at WGXC (listen…
Over the past few years Cindy has evolved from the muffled, flannel-lined pop that first cropped up the band’s first couple of offerings around 2018 and 2020. As 2021’s 1:2 surfaced, Karina…
A gorgeous new single out today from Danny Paul Grody captures the verdant air of spring. “Light Blooms” patters into the speakers on Grody’s fingerpicked folk, soft and sanguine, cut with an…
This record seems to have snuck out without much fanfare, an undeserving reception for Horne, one of the West Coast’s key production secrets. Horne (Circles Around The Sun, Grateful Shred) has found…
If you’ve kept your ears perked to the cosmic corners of the Americana landscape then its quite possible that the name Prairiewolf has filtered your way through their live recordings and a…
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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