A new punk crusher out of the UK comes from the ever-consistent Upset The Rhythm stable. Shake Chain, a London four-piece with a knack for performance art, crawl into view with a…
The last few years have been fruitful for Ezra Feinberg, with a lovely album out in 2020 and a collaboration with John Kolodij. Now the former Citay and Piano Magic guitarist links…
A first track surfaces today from Tim Hill’s sophomore album Giant. The Allah-Lahs touring keyboardist recorded an album of four track recordings for the band’s Calicos Discos a few years back and…
I’ve mentioned this one a couple of times pre-release, but this live document from John Dwyer’s latest jazz run is well worth digging deeper. Dwyer has been working with a rotating cast…
One of my favorite albums of 2022 has to be the Third Man debut from Rich Ruth. The Nashville composer has created a psychedelic jazz behemoth that’s rife with nuance. Ruth battles…
Like many, I’ve been revisiting the golden era of psychedelic scorch that’s come out of the early aughts over the past few years. Something in the air seems ripe for a revival…
The second single from One Eleven Heavy’s upcoming album Poolside swerves towards choogle a bit more than the last. With an air of Southern charms in its low slung guitar and barroom…
Stephen Pierce’s Gold Dust has been on my radar for some time. The solo guise of the Kindling guitarist finds him in much calmer waters, embracing a sun-bathed folk form. While his…
Still feel like Mythic Sunship doesn’t get enough shouts in the States. The Copenhagen band were longtime members of the El Paraiso stable and have moved to Tee Pee for their last…
There’s been a steady stream of works from rootless over the past few years, some expansive like the ambience-heavy Docile Cobras, others more pensive and spare with Hurewitz focusing solely on fingerpicked…
The excellent Beautify Junkyards release a new single for Ghost Box today. The included cuts are culled from their recent concert film Cosmorama Moving Images, a live in the studio set the…
Drag City sends out another dip into the upcoming live album from Wand. The band has long used the live setting to unwind their typically meticulous psych but this marks the first…
Another great peek into the upcoming Marissa Anderson album lands this week with a darker turn. “The Fire This Time” finds the guitarist paying homage to Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. Written…
Each new Badge Époque Ensemble release has unlocked more of the band’s undeniable charms. Growing from a primarily instrumental psych-jazz enclave into a band that’s come to embrace, soul, lounge, psych-pop, and…
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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