A kind of kindred spirit to Jeff Parker’s Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy, SML’s debut was also recored at the vaunted, but now shuttered L.A. venue. The band held down a…
Dom Trimboli (Wireheads, Dom & the Wizards) has been a constant fixture around the site, so it’s always fun to see what’s next out of the Aussie songwriter. He pivots once more…
West of Roan have a way of crafting songs that feel like passed traditions — stories that slip from generation to generation on soft gusts of guitar and twined voices. Their new…
Very excited to see a new single out today from site favorite Seawind of Battery. “New Moon” comes with news in tow that a new album is on the way from songwriter…
A companion piece to another mix I did about a year ago called It’s Too Late All of A Sudden. A second round up of newer artists that lean towards ‘70s aesthetics…
The second installment in RVNG’s Reflections series shies away from the light, bending jazz and ambient echoes into a cavernous new album. It would seem hard to match the first installment, the…
Kate Bollinger’s become a master of atmosphere, creating songs that instantly transport the listener to calm comforts. As she preps a new album, Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind, the first…
Once you think you’ve got a handle on Pat Keen, he slips away, pivoting through a plethora of stylistic slip-ons — folk, country, lounge, jazz, Americana — proving to be an instrumental…
Another softly devastating new single from Nathan Bowles Trio is out this morning. The new outfit features Bowles alongside double-bassist Casey Toll (Jake Xerxes Fussell, Mt. Moriah) and drummer Rex McMurray (CAVE).…
A new single slips out today from indie pop purveyors Peel Dream Magazine, heralding their new album Rose Main Reading Room. “Lie In The Gutter” skitters along on a soft-hearted beat, letting…
The past few years have found the ambient country coven taking shape. Stretched out along an imaginary landscape — dessert dry, but somehow still hung with haze — the genre has found…
The Hidden Gems feature has slowed a bit this year, but the ones that are coming in are prime examples of why I love the feature. There’s always records lurking out there…
Montreal’s Laughing digs into a power pop and indie sound that culls from the College Radio boom of the ‘90s. Catchy to a fault and stomping out of the speakers on fuzz…
Great to see that RSTB faves Dummy are back this morning with a new single and an album in tow. The first cut out of the crate is the bubbly, pop-forward single…
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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