Suturing the cosmic expanses to the clandestine worlds of non-traditional instrumentation, the new collaboration from BJ Cole and Secondson slips some of Cole’s ethereal pedal steel into the world of resonant glass.…
While they’ve by no means been slight in the past, the new record from Edena Gardens is the band at their absolute heaviest and headiest. A massive record by all measurements, Quintessence…
Another taught indie knuckleball from North Carolina band RIBS hits this week. Born and bitten by the fangs of post-punk, the band is serving up an indie offering that’s more gnarled than…
Been a few years since Liz Harris’ (Grouper) trio Helen has hit the speakers, but they return this week with a pair of new singles and an album in tow. With fogged…
Prison has always carried on a kernal of the psych-blooze shagginess that was at the core of Endless Boogie. With Paul Major as the connective tissue between the two, it’s hard not…
Sweat were staples around here following their 2023 debut, an album that pounced on the vamp and volume of ‘70s arena rock, glam, and power pop. The band’s mix of The Runaways’…
There’s an innate familiarity to Mopar Stars, and not just because a few familiar names crop up in the credits, including members of Sheer Mag, Poison Ruin, and Zorn. The band has…
With a new label behind them, Philly’s 2nd Grade keep their buoyant power pop in tact. Their first single since 2024’s high water mark Scheduled Explosions, “Cellophane Girls” continues to comb through…
Work commitments have kept the site a bit slower these days, but there’s always time to tout The Tubs. The UK band is on the come up this year, having already hammered…
I’m forever shouting new works from Aussie favorites The Bures Band. The band has been tearing through 2026 with a run of singles, surely leading up to a new album with no…
A new album from Spiral Galaxy, the duo of flautist Sara Gossett and Streve Krakow (Plastic Crimewave), expands their scope while codifying their vision of psychedelic seance. At the crossroads of drone,…
Always happy to see a new single from West Coast faves The Goods. This one cropped up last week but its just as fresh on a Monday. Packed with power pop charms…
This band’s been bubbling at the edge of my consciousness and as their fourth release nears this year, it promises to be their best yet. Songwriter Mark Grassick and Scottish producer/multi-instrumentalist Andrew…
Another great edition of Crawl Out From the fallout. The latest show features new music from Ty Segall, Ribs, Black Duck, Jeffrey Silverstein, Edena Gardens, The Bures Band, The Tubs, The Hobknobs,…
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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