Nap Eyes cap off their recent run of singles with a propulsive new cut that captures the band’s keen ear for aesthetics. Smeared and smudged under a lightly frothy veneer, the single…
RSTB faves The Smashing Times let loose a third single from the upcoming new album Mrs. Ladyships and The Cleanerhouse Boys. The title track finds the band wrapping bleary hooks in soft…
The first single from the excellent debut by The Cosmic Tones Research Trio focused on the band’s spiritual jazz strains. They follow it with a cut that casts light on their more…
The second album from SF power trio Terry Gross, cheekily titled Huge Improvement, ducks the snark that the title implies by twisting the turbine of their debut enough to warrant the self-applied…
After a short stint as a Bandcamp-only LP release, the new album from Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders grabs wider audiences this week with new cassette and digital versions from Worried…
Another blast of post-punk pokes out of the new album from Naked Roommate today. The band grabs hold of the most propulsive elements of the genre, bleeding through the unraveled ends of…
This week brings an excellent new album from local favorite Karen Schoemer (Sky Furrows, Jaded Azurites) and guitarist Zak Boerger (These Wonderful Evils) with help from Dan Bitney (Tortoise), Mike Watt (Minutemen/…
Been meaning to write this one up since it hit the speakers and, honestly, there’s nothing better to get your week started that a bit of Zonk! The New Mexico duo, guitarist…
Always a bit shrouded in layers of dense psychedelic fog, the world of Beautify Junkayrds expands with a new LP for the ever-impressive Ghost Box Records. The latest album plunges the band…
Excited to see a new single today from RSTB faves Ex-Vöid today. The band, featuring members of The Tubs and Joanna Gruesome, returns to blending heartsick jangle-pop and punk into smeared and…
If you’re properly tuned into the more recent documenting of ‘70s Japanese folk-rock (see: LiTA’s reissues, Aquarium Drunkard, Torn & Frayed) then chances are you’ve come across the incredible record Misora by…
Guruguru Brain always delivers the best of the East and today they offer up a new single from Thailand’s Khana Bierbood. Atop a funk-strung beat, the band rips through psychedelic riffs that…
Every single out of the upcoming Humdrum album hits like a wave of nostalgia wrapped in soft focus ‘80s earmarks. The band’s jangle-pop blends strums and synths into the kind of heartache…
Jokingly Styrofoam Winos refer to themselves as a “song Voltron from Nashville,” but there’s more than a nugget of truth under that wink and smile. The band brings together three solid songwriters,…
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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