Been loving every new single out of the new record from Canadian folk outfit Maybel. The band’s new record, Gloam, deals with growing, changing, and worry. It’s a vulnerable record besot with…
For their latest album, Chicago’s Axis: Sova have shaken free of the basement bindings that were so prevalent on their earlier works. With each record, the band has inched closer to a…
A second single swans through the speakers from Swimming Bell, the moniker adopted by LA songwriter Katie Schottland. With a touch of country wafting through the air, the song also plays with…
The ambient country cabinet is filling up pretty quickly these days and we’re in a golden age of pedal steel, but there’s always room for one more. RSTB faves Scissor Tail offer…
The unfolding of the new Hooveriii continues and “Dreaming” serves to prove that the upcoming record is the band’s most expansive yet. The culmination of a winding psych/prog trip, the song finds…
Bures Band hit their Aussie release date, with a few more days to go in the US, but this one’s such a favorite around here that it’s hard to wait. Quickly crawling…
Meritorio continues their run of impeccable pop singles with a new cut from Model Shop. The band, which rose from the remains of Math and Physics Club last year, offered up a…
The third album from Spanish quartet Melenas finds the band radiating light, turning their taut and tensile post-punk into something a bit more incandescent on Ahora. For the new record the band…
This comp is a tribute to… well, compilations really. The ‘90s seemed marked by a proliferation of iconic compilations, no doubt inspired by many of the indie labels that had paved the…
Already holding steady on the 2023 favorites list, the latest album from Cory Hanson finds his solo work expanding out of the folk shadows and into the sunspot scotch of arid Americana.…
One of the nicest moments of venturing out to Woodsist this year was a set from Tyvek, who haven’t really hit this site for a few years, having been a staple during…
It’s quite easy to get lost in the debut album from Setting. The trio, consisting of Nathan Bowles (Pelt, Black Twig Pickers), Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors), and Joe Westerlund (Califone, Jake Xerxes Fussell),…
Couldn’t be a more perfect day to announce a new record from Large Plants. The band’s Anglican psych and prog just seems to make more sense framed by a cold September drizzle.…
Credit Electric’s single “House of Cancer” gets adorned with a new video this week. The San Francisco band quickly follows up their 2022 album, out of love in the face of a…
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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