Aussie favorites The Bures Band waste no time following up their excellent album from last year. This year has seen the band slipping out ace singles, “The Pilot,” and “Green Town,” and…
The new album from Jim Nothing has been a fount of amazing singles over the past few months. With the band letting loose the fifth single from their upcoming LP, and not…
Another side to folk this morning, this time a bit more uplifting, setting the listener aloft on the beautiful new single from Shovel Dance Collective. “The Rolling Wave” builds cinematic steam, augmenting…
It’s odd to read that the inspiration for the title to Smote’s new album, A Grand Stream, arises from peaceful moments in the sun. There are quite a few feelings dredged up…
The good folks over at Idée Fixe have brought together a massive collective of Canadian talent for their latest work, incorporating members of New Hermitage, Joyful Joyful, and producer and composer Michael…
The Hidden Gems series continues to dig into the depths of recorded music, and for the latest entry Tyler Wilcox examines a bootleg that has local connection to Prairiewolf, captured at a…
It’s getting to be the time of year when the convergence of horror and psychedelics seem like a good idea. The ‘70s produced a plethora of b-movie delights that found library composers…
A softer side of the upcoming debut from Anna Butterss lands today, smelting the jazz barbs from the first taste with a hazy aura. “Pokemans” slips their sound into a hallucinatory hollow,…
A long gestating album from L.A. staples Groop sees light this year. Following a 3-year residency at Zebulon, the band has been honing this one live as improvisations that take shape on…
Last year was another solid runner from Austin singer-songwriter Cactus Lee. Kevin Dehan has been operating under the name for a few years yet, letting out low-key country killers that let private…
Must be slipping, I missed out on this new single from the great Styrofoam Winos about a week back. With a little time to marinate, the new single is just as potent…
A second single hits the speakers today from Goat’s upcoming eponymous album. The band continues to let the funk flow on “Goatbrain” blending Eastern psych guitar stabs with a looser feel on…
Catching up on this one from last week, but I’d be remiss not to mention this superb slice of indie pop. The Submissives have been haunting Montreal for about a decade, and…
The second album from outsider country sliders Animal Piss, It’s Everywhere rolls deep into the same shaggy shambles as their first. The band culls together an East Coast ensemble of some of…
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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