I’m always down for a celebration of the Cleaners From Venus, and it seems that Dandy Boy Agrees. The West Coast haven for indie pop has just announced a new tribute album,…
Aussie favorites The Green Child announce a new album today, along with news that the band has expanded from a duo to a four-piece. Joining Raven and Mikey, Alex Macfarlane and Shaun…
There are plenty of nocturnal vibes on the upcoming Prairiewolf record. It’s an album made for the twilight slip into dusk, but there may be no song more suited to the damp…
Off the success of their debut, West Coast pop alchemists Dummy often get slipped into the net with the new wave of shoegaze that’s been glinting off the coast these days. While…
The second single off of the upcoming new LP from The Smashing Times finds the band shying away from the jangles in favor of cavernous atmospheres, sing-song choruses and some discordant fiddle…
The day’s packed with indie pop, an that sits just right with me. Humdrum let loose a debut single from their upcoming Slumberland LP a couple of weeks back and they return…
A second stomper slips out from Mo Dotti this week. Soaked in static, the band pushes weaves the line between shoegaze haze and ‘90s fuzz-pop glazer. Scooped out of the SST deep…
Longtime favorites Mapache have been a staple around here, but the band’s Sam Blasucci has held down some space solo as well, hitting the speakers with a debut last year that brought…
More good news out of the Guruguru Brain camp today as Kikagaku Moyo’s Tomo Katsurada announces a solo debut. The mini-album, Dream of the Egg, arrives as part of his new Future…
I was captivated by the debut from Japanese trio Maya Ongaku. The band crafted moments of quietude lost between psychedelics and new age, doused in an ambient aura. The songs spoke to…
The Bay Area burners that usually turn up on the site often swing the needle towards indie pop, but the Bay’s got more than just guitar snap in it’s coffers these days…
Another excellent entry into the new wave of Shoegaze emanating out of the West Coast arrives this week. Blue Zero brings together a trio of familiar names — Chris Natividad (Marbled Eye,…
No Quarter has consistently been home and hollow to some of the best in folk and Cosmic Americana in the past few years, but they’ve also been known to offer up the…
If you haven’t been siphoning the psych-pop along with Salt Lake City’s preeminent purveyors, The Mellons, then its about time to start. The band’s been creeping through the E6 back garden for…
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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