While there’s plenty to absorb on this Bandcamp Friday, don’t let the gems pass you by in all the fuss and fluster. This new album from Jon Camp is one such gem.…
Brand new psychedelic shiver out of Minneapolis this week under the name The Living Sky. The duo is comprised of Jason Millard and Matthew Himes, both of whom have circled around the…
Taper’s Choice seem to be getting press in two distinct circles, pulling in higher profile praise from Relix and Rolling Stone while courting the JamBase crowd and haunting Archive with a few…
Its a good day for second singles, and this new one from Australian songwriter Andrew Tuttle is just the kind of rippling ease that I need on a hectic Wednesday. Peering through…
Can’t stress how much this one should be on your most anticipated list. Austin’s Chronophage have been working out excellent indie bound, post-punk scratched albums for a few years now, but with…
Four years on and it’s been a damn near perfect run from Aussie outfit The Stroppies. Less ragged and loose than many of their peers, the band taps into the kind of…
Following a pretty convincing argument to already have her new album on your radar in first single, “The Spur,” Joan Shelley brings a new single this today. Featuring fellow RSTB favorite Bill…
Every piece of the new Mapache that sneaks out into the world has been a delight. The band’s latest is a massive 2xLP that embraces the band’s pastoral country-folk. The late-afternoon lilt…
I can’t think of a time that the works of Stephen McBean weren’t shaping the site. RSTB first popped up just after Black Mountain’s eponymous debut and the subsequent flip from The…
Following nicely on his absolute gem on Wick, It’s a New Day Tonight, from 2018, Michael Rault is leaving a trail of essential new singles in his run up to an eponymous…
A few years ago a lovely record snuck out under the name Sacred Lamp. The record was a collaboration between Canadian songwriters Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn and Ayal Senior. The songs on Senior’s…
If this record isn’t already on the top of your 2022 pile for the most essential reissue, then it damn well should be. Les Rallizes Dénudés, the long storied Japanese psych band…
The debut from Winged Wheel is sliding under far too many radars these days. The group brings together four geographically disparate members — Cory Plump (Spray Paint, Expensive Shit), Whitney Johnson (Matchess,…
I can’t stress how excited I am for this Sean Thompson record. One of the most fully formed debuts in some time, Sean springboards off of his early EPs for an album…
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.