Another longtime favorite returns this week. Following an interim single, Japanese trio Maya Ongaku slip back onto the speakers with a more substantial offering this week, announcing a new album over at…
Yesterday brought a few RSTB favorites back to the forefront, including perennial site standouts The Tubs. The band’s last two albums cemented their status as jangle-pop heroes for the 2020’s, deepening the…
Where the band’s debut felt like a testing of boundaries; an improv-heavy dip into headiness that only hinted at its creators strengths, the latest album from BCMC is a deliberately deep dive…
If you have any familiarity with Nashville’s Vorhex Angel, then the first moments of Drain will turn expectations completely upside down. Though, given the band’s presence at the fringes of the musical…
Been a little while since I’ve heart from Nick Mitchel Maiato (Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura, One Eleven Heavy) but the songwriter is back this week with news of a new solo album…
A new single slips out this morning from RSTB fave Ned Collette. The Aussie singer-songwriter has been a bastion of heavy-hearted folk, skirting the fringes of pop for years, and his latest…
A little softness to start the descent into the end of the week. Today site regular Tony Jay returns with news of a vinyl version of Faithless, a record that was mostly…
It’s already been a busy year for Yaël Dekker in the wake of news of The Hobknobs debut, but the Dutch artist adds another release to the 2026 pile with the debut…
There’s been a wealth of sunshine pop and ‘60s sounds that have spun up over the past few years; a new renaissance of bubblegum blush and baroque ornaments that can’t help but…
There’s always room around here for site regular Jeffrey Alexander. In the wake of the band’s latest, Jeffrey’s having a second go at the Hidden Gems series. A consummate music archeologist, Alexander’s…
Though enmeshed in a town full of punk bands and indie upstarts, Leah Senior has long pushed against the Melbourne grain to embrace strains of ‘60s folk that favor fragility over fury.…
A serrated salvo is let loose today from Raleigh’s RIBS. Shredded, shivved, and shaken, the band’s sound is rooted in a muscular punk vision that’s got as much punch in the lyrics…
A record that’s been beguiling me since it first came into the inbox, the debut from Fuses brings together RSTB favorite Craig Fahner (Motorists) with Swedish drummer and bassist Moa-Linn Rosenlöf (Orkan,…
Feeling more comfortable than ever in their own skins, Styrofoam Winos latest is a bridge between the country air of their Nashville environs and the dented Twin Tone / Homestead indie streaks…
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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