A decidedly stark, yet stately turn for Leah Senior on her latest single from The Music That I Make. Often indebted to Anglo-folk, while digging into more pop-oriented strains, “Where Am I…
Athens outfit The Pink Stones launched into view with a barroom-born country that was bound to haunt a jukebox or two for years to come. They refine that reputation on their sophomore…
Mapache let out another excellent single from the upcoming Swinging Stars, and like early offering “People Please,” “Ghosts” finds the band straying from their more staid work, filling the room with the…
A morning dose of indie pop courtesy of Swedish outfit Fort Not lands this morning. “Tell Me Nothing” is an airy confection of a cut — jangly, jaunty, and fizzing with a…
One of the bright spots among a dismal 2020 was the debut from Nashville’s Luke Schneider, a meditative release that helped calm the mind, cascading waves of Luke’s pedal steel through the…
Cory Hanson lit out a few years back with a solo slip that found him shying away from the thunder and intricacy of his work in Wand. The band’s albums had just…
Been waiting on this one ever since I caught wind of Stephen Bailey’s new outfit in an interview a while back. Bailey was the frontman of the now-disbanded, and much-beloved desert psych…
It’s a big day for RSTB faves around here and it’s great to see Jack Cooper’s Modern Nature in the mix. After the release of his ambitious last album, Island of Noise,…
Montreal’s Private Lives return with the second single off of their upcoming scorcher, Hit Record. The title track offers up a sunburnt singe of punk, hung on whiplash clash of guitars and…
On their third album, Texas duo Tele Novella explore personal reflection, digging deeper into the well of wounded country that began to mark their 2021 album Merlynn Belle. The first single, “Hard-Hearted…
It’s always great to see what’s coming out of SF hub, Paisley Shirt records and that goes double if the project involves labeled Kevin Linn. While Linn is usually cropping up behind…
It’s always good to check in on what Batov records is up to. The label casts a wide net, picking up gems like Wax Machine, though they primarily hit on a mixture…
Wireheads return to the fold for 2023 and Potentially Venus fills a void I couldn’t quite put my finger on over the past couple of years. The band had been kicking out…
Been waiting for this one to get up on Bandcamp as there are packed gems on the debut from Mariam Saleh aka Bong Wish. The Boston-based songwriter follows up on her EP…
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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