New Zealand’s Best Bets return with a new single today, a yearning power pop crusher that opens up the band’s new album The Hollow Husk of Feeling. Pairing chiming leads with a…
North Carolina trio Setting’s debut was a gorgeous record full of folk experiments that unfolded into pulsating seances. While the studio might be able to capture a portion of the band’s magic,…
As BASIC, Forsyth/Millevoi/Avery tap the quicksilver repetition that threaded through their source of inspiration — Quine and Maher’s album of the same name. The trio jumps off from that unsung gem and…
A new single slips out from UK favorites Mt. Misery, along with the news of their new album on Prefect Records. “Waking Up” finds the band drenched in jangles and the soft-focus…
Centripetal Force keeps the ambient aura glowing today with a second single shrouded in dusk light. Laced with a somber gravity and hushed tones, the new single from numün introduces the band’s…
Yasmin Williams’ new album arrives just in time to help the listener slip into Autumn, wafting out of the speakers on cool breezes. Her new single, “Hummingbird,” embraces a bluegrass ramble that…
Over the last few years Weak Signal have steadily established themselves as one of the best NYC bands. An alley-hardened trio who suture ‘70s punk austerity to the bone-dry bash of the…
I’m always down for a celebration of the Cleaners From Venus, and it seems that Dandy Boy Agrees. The West Coast haven for indie pop has just announced a new tribute album,…
Aussie favorites The Green Child announce a new album today, along with news that the band has expanded from a duo to a four-piece. Joining Raven and Mikey, Alex Macfarlane and Shaun…
There are plenty of nocturnal vibes on the upcoming Prairiewolf record. It’s an album made for the twilight slip into dusk, but there may be no song more suited to the damp…
Off the success of their debut, West Coast pop alchemists Dummy often get slipped into the net with the new wave of shoegaze that’s been glinting off the coast these days. While…
The second single off of the upcoming new LP from The Smashing Times finds the band shying away from the jangles in favor of cavernous atmospheres, sing-song choruses and some discordant fiddle…
The day’s packed with indie pop, an that sits just right with me. Humdrum let loose a debut single from their upcoming Slumberland LP a couple of weeks back and they return…
A second stomper slips out from Mo Dotti this week. Soaked in static, the band pushes weaves the line between shoegaze haze and ‘90s fuzz-pop glazer. Scooped out of the SST deep…
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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