As the weather finally starts to cool and turn towards autumn I’ve seen numerous calls to bust out the UK Folk — gathering up Pentagle and Fairport albums for a descent into…
Elkhorn’s catalog has been building steam for a while. It’s no secret around here that Sun Cycle, and it’s partner album, Elk Jam were a few of my top albums when they…
A double set of singles announces the debut album from Fremantle Aus’s Spice World. The band embraces the scrappier end of the jangle spectrum. Bright guitars and shout along vocals make this…
These days I’ve had Jeffrey Alexander’s Heavy Lidders on, well, heavy rotation. The band’s output has been particularly potent these past few years. Dovetailing out of the great run of Dire Wolves…
Another short-format Aussie band makes good with a debut and this one’s buzzing with an ecstatic synth-punk glee. Melbourne’s Delivery have already put a couple of great EPs under their name and…
Got a brand new show up for September on WGXC and it’s pretty much packed with new music. Aside from new offerings from Matthew Rolin, Elkhorn, One Eleven Heavy, Drugdealer, Upupayāma and…
The latest single from Melbourne’s Don Glori skirts the lines between Brazilian funk and soul-jazz, tumbling headlong through its paces with a constant sense of motion. Driven by skittering drums and stratospheric…
All right there’s a dense backstory on this album if you appreciate pontification, but it all boils down to the fact that Daniel Romano — one of the most prolific artists of…
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…
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.
The site is written and maintained by Andy French.