So, I don’t know whether to toss this into the reissues or the reviews, but either way this needs a pop to the top of your list. A few years back Peter…
Very nice to see RSTB fave Scott Hirsch on the schedule for 2025. Today finds Hirsch with a new single and the announcement of a new album on the way in May.…
The Cosmic American wave continues to crest on the both coasts this year, holding on tight to the heels of 2024. This one’s been baking for a while, and I’ve seen the…
The good folks over at Centripetal Force have been busy already this year, and another good one rolls down the belt for 2025. Picking up East Coast ambient country outfit The Royal…
UK post-punk scrappers Buffet Lunch crop up here once again, with a new single for their forthcoming album Perfect Hit!, out in April on Upset The Rhythm. The song, an ode to…
Another single arrives to chase the chill out of the air off the upcoming new album from Cameron Knowler. The songwriter’s fingerpicked folk has always followed a softer strain than some of…
This is a nice surprise for the morning. Long-running psych folk outfit Faun Fables returns with their first new album since 2016. Produced by the band themselves, the new album, Counterclockwise, finds…
On their latest outing Monde UFO feel both more aligned with pop and more outre than ever. More propulsive than their celebrated previous album, Flamingo Tower, spends less time bouncing between the…
The second single from Jeremy Earl’s solo EP seeps out today, slipping around the listener like a shield against the Spring rain. Like the first single from the EP, cut away from…
Skirting the periphery of the new jangle slingers, Bristol’s Snails don’t exactly dip into the oft-drawn well of Sarah/C86. Instead the band feeds their indie pop engine on a welcome mix of…
A real nice surprise today from jazz / post-rock outfit Fuubutsushi. The group’s roster ropes in a ton of favorite names, including Chris Jusell, Chaz Prymek, Matthew Sage, and Patrick Shiroishi. On…
Another neon-lit incantation out of the upcoming album from RSTB fave Pearl Charles this week. The latest single in the run up to her quickly approaching opus, Desert Queen, finds the West…
Seems the name Eggy’s gotten double booked of late, and while the jam band circuit can claim the New Haven travelers, the Aussies operating under the name are hitting a more progressive…
Living in the crosshairs of Krautrock and country, pastoral and progressive, the new album from Aux Meadows is a dose of Kosmiche American that’s not to be missed. The band picks at…
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.