Quite a few gems dropped in over the break here and I’ll attempt to play a bit of catch-up early in the week. RSTB fave Ryan Pollie’s 2021 album Stars found the…
The year may have ticked over to ’23, but I’m still playing a bit of catch-up on ’22. Last year was loaded with releases, tucking away gems in every stylistic corner. While…
The lineup alone on this record is enough to make me skid to a stop and instantly set it onto the speakers, but what wafts out of those speakers subverts expectations. With…
Following a few years of prolific release, Joseph Allred slips into 2023 with a new release already in hand. Joseph’s set was one of the highlights of Deep in the Valley this…
Today finds a new single from RSTB faves Loose Koozies. The Detroit country crooners join up with Kelly Jean Caldwell (Saturday Looks Good To Me) who’s just off an excellent contribution to…
A few more morsels are slipping out before the holidays come and skid 2022 to a stop. Perennial favorite Wick records, the rock arm of Daptone, have picked up an old power…
Nathan Salsburg continues his growing series of Landwerk recordings. The project began back in 2020. While sequestered at home, Salsburg began works that were inspired by The Caretaker’s catalog, steeped as they…
I caught Kassi Valazza’s great 2019 album, Dear Dead Days, a bit late, but it was a lovely introduction to the Portland songwriter. With an EP slipped between the album and where…
Still working to capture some more of the excellent offerings that sit atop my review pile before 2022 slides off into the rising oceans. One of the more tireless travelers in the…
After the dense, absorbing bounds of Sam Wenc’s album Heart Music, the sparkling sides of Recall the Dream Breath feel relatively weightless. On the latest peek into the album, a collaboration with…
Another single out of Meritorio today and it finds the previously discussed debut from Aussies Spice World taking a bit of a melancholy turn. Where the past few singles were ramshackle swerves…
Brooklyn’s Plates of Cake bring their era to an end, but not without serving up a few solid doses of power pop and jangled goodness one more time. The band has always…
A second single wafts out of the upcoming Bobbie Lovesong LP, as effusive as the last. “Watching From a Window” finds the songwriter lost in her own haze, riding a propulsive beat,…
The indie-pop well springs eternal out of San Francisco these days as more and more RSTB faves seem to pop up there everyday. Meritorio adds another gem to their stable of artists…
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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