The prolific output of Glenn Donaldson knows no bounds, with an essential album from The Reds, Pinks and Purples already out and his work with SF Band The Telephone Numbers already on…
This one’s getting two new reissues, so the opportunities to shore up your early Embryo catalog are pretty good in ’21. The band would go on to release 20 albums, play the…
The second cut from this upcoming Holy Family album deepens the psych-folk wounds that were opened on the first. With a psilocybin-soaked video, the song creeps into the consciousness on waves of…
Another sixteen foot stomper from the upcoming Six Organs of Admittance descends this week.Chasny has dispensed with the quietude and cinder-scuffed growl of his catalog for a record that’s built on the…
Been a while since I’ve had a mixtape, but getting the new site settle took a bit of that extra time this year. For the last couple of years it’s been great…
One of the cornerstones of Cardinal Fuzz is here with a new album, a whittled down version of the massive 4xCD release this past year entitled, Shedding The Albatross. While neither the…
Looks like the excellent new UK label, Prefect Records, is graduating from singles to full lengths with the announcement of the debut from Mt. Misery. While the headlines so far have gone…
I’ve been a bit slack in covering all the great Levitation Sessions that have been released in the last year. In the absence of live music, the festival has been producing a…
Last year Jeremy Hurewitz released one of the most endearing guitar records of the year. His collaboration with Mexican musician and folklorist Luís Pérez Ixoneztli found him utilizing a large swath of…
An RSTB fave returns this week, with Cochemea following up his excellent album All My Relations with a sequel titled Vol II: Baca Sewa. Again focused on the ancestral memory and familial…
This one has been creeping in on me lately. The third album from Tulsa’s Jessey Aycock is dusted with alt-country charms, a sweet dose of melancholia, and bar band grit. Aycock has…
Well like everything in 2021, the release for Rose City Band’s upcoming LP got pushed a bit. The record was originally slated to land this week, but instead we’ve got a new…
After already gracing us with a collaborative record released with friend and touring partner Eli Winter early in the year, guitarist Cameron Knowler returns for a solo album that solidifies the songwriter’s…
Last year Philly’s 2nd Grade brought an onslaught of big-hearted pop to the table on their 24-track collection of sunshine power indie. Before those double dozen earworms hit the shelves the band’s…
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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