Another excellent entry from the new batch out of Inner Islands. Perennial RSTB favorite Golden Brown is back, with Stephen Beck doing double duty this year in both Prairiewolf and his solo…
Always a welcome sight around here, the pride of Bloomington, IN, The Cowboys, return for their sixth album. The band has long been riding the lines between garage, power pop, and a…
The El Paraiso catalog has served as a wellspring of psych and jazz favorites over the last few years. As the label has expanded the latter arm of that dynamic, it’s yielded…
Curation is doing their best to keep ears locked on the label these days. News rolled down on Friday that a new record from Uni Boys is on its way. The band…
A brand new slice of low-slung country-dipped Americana sidles out of Sophomore Lounge this week. The debut track from new outfit Ryan Davis & The Roundhouse band picks up where Davis’ outfit…
A gorgeous new single arrives this week from Canadian quartet Maybel. Filled with layered harmonies and an elegiac folk feel, “Long Road Ahead” soars on strings, but keeps an heavy atmosphere around…
Real excited to see this one out in the open. Perennial RSTB faves Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders announce their new LP for Arrowhawk. The record, produced by Chis Forsyth features…
A pleasant surprise today as longtime favorites Sundays & Cybele announce (and release) a new album. The band, long lingering in the stables of Guruguru Brain and Beyond Beyond is Beyond (RIP)…
Adding to the ever-growing stable of excellent Curation artists, the label announces the debut single from Alex Koford. The longtime member of Dead-related projects (Phil Lesh & Communion, Phil Lesh & Friends,…
A newly minted outfit from Nathan Bowles (Pelt, Black Twig Pickers), Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors) and Joe Westerlund (Califone, Sylvan Esso) debuted last week, and as I start to pick up the…
There’s a hell of a lot of music today, but I’d be remiss if I left out the new single from Oslo’s Podcasts. Off of their upcoming album for Prefect Records, this…
Baltimore’s The Smashing Times made a surprise return this morning, following up their incessant jangler from last year with the upcoming This Sporting Life. The band offers up another shot of Television…
West Coast enclave Curation expands its UK stable, adding Brigthon’s The Evening Sons to their roster alongside labelmates Elkyn and Hollow Hand. Though, in truth, the band shares much more in common…
Another lovely Aussie cut today, this time surfacing on prennial favorite label Meritorio. The Sydney band offers up a lived-in and laconic slice of jangle-pop goodness. Sauntering slow, the song winds out…
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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