Nice to see some West Coast heads finding each other this week with RSTB faves Ty Segall and Color Green’s Cory Madden announcing a collaborative record for Ty’s God? imprint. Dubbed Freckle,…
Starting the morning off with a dose of damage from Osaka’s Hibushibire. The band’s latest pairs a blistering new cut with a couple of covers and a winding, live version of “Ayahuasca…
RSTB outside country killers Loose Koozies are back with a new single and a subtle announcement of a new album on the way from Tall Texan. The Detroit band shirks the cosmic…
A second stunner out of the new Rose City Band hits today and it’s just the thing to usher in a little Autumn sun to the week. With a loose strum and…
The continued evolution of The Laughing Chimes has been a wonder to watch. The band began with Sarah-saturated jangles and has worked their way through the wilds of UK indie and college-bound…
Sounding like a long distance call across space and time, the latest collaboration from Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice finds the artists mapping the shape of longing. Expanding on the dynamic from…
A UK name that’s been bubbling on my periphery comes back around with a second single for 2024. Lost somewhere in my scheduling notes is a reminder to post about the band’s…
I love an album that’s all about atmosphere. From the first notes, Auckland’s Te Huhu waft into the room on a plume of fog and curl their sound around the ceiling fans.…
Already cropping up pretty high on the forming RSTB year-end list, the new album from Beachwood Sparks has spent quite a bit of the year on the speakers around here. As a…
The past few years have seen Pearl & The Oysters rise from indie outsiders, serving up slinking disco, AOR, and City Pop to more of a household name as they hit their…
The Green Child embrace a fuller sound and a fuller roster on their latest album. The first two records were largely the product of Mikey Young and Raven Mahon, crafted as a…
A slippery synth meetup from two familiar names around here. Swiss psych-funk collective “L’Eclair hit Ritmo Studios in the Swiss Mountains for a new piece with kindred spirits Klaus Johann Grobe in…
A slippery second album from Naked Roommate falls into the unkempt crevices between post-punk, disco, and no wave. Sucking many of the surrounding genres into the vortex as well, the band continues…
Pieces of this tribute to the great Margo Guryan have been slipping out over the past few months with singles from Clairo, Empress Of, and Kate Bollinger paying homage to the late…
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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