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…
The moniker ML Wah has caught a lot of sides of Matt LaJoie — from his noisier folk moments to stark piano compositions that cropped up last year. It’s served as a…
Spanish jangle-pop outfit The Boys With the Perpetual Nervousness return for a third round and it’s another stunner packed with hooks and an impeccable sense of pop ennui. The band does its…
After an incredible run of collaborations, with Lynn Avery and Nat Harvie, Cole Pulice returns to a solo outing with their latest, Scry. The first peek into the album come via the…
Psych-soul duo Abraxas embrace a midnight surf simmer on their latest single “Mañana.” The duo of Carolina Faruolo (ex-Los Bitchos) and Danny Lee Blackwell (Night Beats) let the neon drip down the…
This one caught my ear yesterday but I didn’t have time to get it up properly. Shame on me for not paying attention to the solo works of Stephen Bailey. The songwriter…
A second single lands from Baltimore’s The Smashing Times and its a Paisley gem that stands apart from the bulk of the East Coat enclave’s scene. Feeling more akin to Cali janglers…
Lovely to hear another track off of the upcoming solo LP from Matthew Rolin. “Fourth Street” moves through the sunlight like wind on grain, a gorgeous ramble of strings and serenity that…
This one has been bubbling under for a long time, cropping up with some great singles along the way. Now, the latest album from Uni Boys has landed in all its power…
This record is an amazing collection of talent stuffed into two sides of free jazz scorch. The ranks of SSWAN find Jessica Ackerley, Patrick Shiroishi, Chris Williams, Luke Stewart, and Jason Nazary…
I mentioned this cover when writing up Workhorse’s lovely new album last month. Harriet Fraser-Barbour reinterprets the Joan Baez tune “River In The Pines,” and dubs it “Mary Maiden.” Her cover re-imagines…
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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