UK label Big Potato has been quietly slipping out essential reissues over the past few years, digging heavily into the psych and folk coffers. While long elusive gems like Emmett Finley’s eponymous…
The upcoming Florry LP continues to offer crumpled country charms, a rough-hewn outing that captures drunk and dry dioramas of elation and exhaustion. The first couple of singles strayed towards carefree forms,…
Another bout of greased goodness out of the Allah-Las today. The band has made a conscious shift from the more laconic, sun-drenched jams of their earlier works into a more fried vision…
The upcoming release from Axis: Sova has been on the speakers pretty regularly around here, and as a second single slips out from the fold, you’ll come to understand why. Doused in…
Los Angeles songwriter Haylie Hostetter announces a debut EP under her moniker Lady Apple Tree. Her new single carries the namesake of both her band and the EP this morning, a sweetly-stung…
I’m excited for this one. UK band The New Eves have been letting out a bit of live goodness over the past couple of years, with a single comp cut in the…
An arid scrape cuts deep on the first new track out of Chicago’s Luggage. The band’s latest LP will land on perennial RSTB fave Amish Records in September. The title track off…
A brand new bout of resplendent calm is on the way from RSTB faves Tengger. Their eponymous new album continues to embrace the nomadic nature of their sound, reflecting the natural environments…
A couple of Raven faves come together as new Bay-area band Helpful People. Featuring perennial fixture on the site Glenn Donaldson (Art Museums, Skygreen Leopards) alongside Carly Putnam (The Oilies/The Mantles), the…
Very nice to see RSTB faves Half Stack back today with word of a new album. The band lets loose the album opener, “I Might Try” as the first single — a…
The July edition of Crawl Out From The Fallout rounds up a whole bunch of favorites, including new cuts from P.G. Six, Sally Anne Morgan, Mapache, Tobacco City , Aussie faves The…
Yet another excellent single off of the upcoming Mikaela Davis record this week. More so than any of the early singles, there’s a weight to “Cinderella,” turning the fairy tale topside, with…
Montreal’s Private Lives barrel roll into the room from the first moments of their debut LP, Hit Record. The band slipped out an EP last year, which they use as the bones…
Another gem from the upcoming Sonny & The Sunsets surfaces today. “Pink Cake” is a light and lofty jangler. Smith continues to dig into a sound that’s timeless and true — 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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