A little while back I featured a standalone single from Kassi Valazza that found her injecting a sense of Cosmic Americana into Country’s trad trappings. Just over a month later the Portland…
Meg Baird has long been a favorite around here, from her days in Espers to solo albums, Heron Oblivion, and collaborations with folks like Mary Lattimore, Kurt Vile, Will Oldham, and Steve…
Another single from the upcoming Marlene Ribeiro LP unfolds this week along with an appropriately altered reality video from Ovo Estrelado. Far removed from her work with the more caustic Gnod, Ribeiro’s…
The arc of King Tuff has gradually moved towards a grander scale over the years. From early days spent carving plastic pop hooks out of a more gilded vision of garage than…
This album has been in the headphones quite a bit lately and its nice to see a second single slip out from Whitney’s Playland. The band, featuring members of Grandma’s Boyfriend, Blades…
The excellently named Parisian Night Suit unveils a video for his first single on Six Tonnes De Chair. The band is a solo jaunt from Jeroen Reek of Iguana Death Cult. Inspired…
The second single slips out this week from the upcoming new album Holiday Camp from RSTB faves Those Pretty Wrongs. “Always The Rainbow” captures the album’s sense of clouded past — watercolor…
Another pop odyseey out of the Idée Fixe, roster this week. The label has been rounding up some of the best Canadian psych, indie, folk, and jazz over the past few years…
Meg Baird’s first solo outing since 2015 finds the songwriter exploring some of her most tender moments, parsing out songs that stretch in the faded flickers of late afternoon sun. In the…
If you’ve been ingnoring the wealth of indie pop streaming out of the West Coast these days, then you’re mising out. Among an already prolific local scene San Francisco’s The Telephone Numbers…
A record of overcast psych-folk that begs to grace the turntable during the winter months, Be As Good To Others As They Are Not To You from Jens Unosson ought to find…
This one is an amazing curio to say the least. Often cited as an inspiration for hauntology, latter day interest in pagan folk, and ritualistic texts like Weird Walk, the series Children…
An RSTB fave from the South Hemi rises up once more this week with a new single from the inimitable Terry. The band announces their fourth album with the slightly woozy new…
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.