Copenhagen indie pop pounders Josie just cropped up on a great single from Precious Recordings of London and the band quickly turns around news on a debut for Perennial Death/K Records. The…
Another sterling single swirls out of the new Jeanines record. The band continues to cultivate the connective tissue between jangle-pop’s twee softness and the bittersweet swoon of ‘60s folk. Like Dolly Mixture…
Eschewing his singer-songwriter side, Steve Gunn returns to the enclave at Three Lobed for an album that indulges his instrumental impulses. As much as Matador has become a haven for his hooks,…
An atmospheric itcher out of the always reliable Felte label today. The first single from Irish band pôt-pot scratches at an existential ache; a song looking for relief after long periods lost…
A spacious, chamber-pop gone psych new single slips out from Andy White (Tonstartssbandht, Mac DeMarco) under his Andy Boay moniker. The single retains the echo-laden, cavernous vocal style that’s a hallmark of…
There’s a nice brush with Salem 66 in the overview I did on Homestead a while back, but Don Giovanni have gone much further and helped the world get introduced to the…
An old favorite back on the site. I finally caught Cass live a few years ago and something about the stage really brought the catalog into perspective. The new video finds Cass…
A couple of standalone singles signal whiffs of an album on the way from perennial favorite Lee Baggett. Following his excellent album from last year, Waves for a Begull, Lee returned in…
Longtime friend of the site Love Axe returns with a new album, one that sheds much of the skin of his past works in favor of a focus on folk and country.…
Wrapping up this week with another Snapshot mixtape that runs down some recent favorites. Dig into the weekend with new singles from Joseph Allred, The New Eves, Water From Your Eyes, Julianna…
Site favorite Michael Ramos returns under his shadowy altar ego Tony Jay. With a head full of the softer side of the Japanese underground and Les Rallizes Dénudés and Shizuka in the…
At this point, I’ve been covering King Gizz so long they’ve gone from quirky exports to a cottage industry of vinyl variants and touring powerhouses in their own right. The band’s always…
Somehow we’re halfway through the year already, and just hitting the June edition of Crawl Out From the Fallout. Another show packed full of new music, the set this month features new…
Another plaintive stunner slips out from the upcoming new album from Sally Anne Morgan (The Black Twig Pickers, House and Land). Morgan’s solo albums find the songwriter in a contemplative mood, exemplified…
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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