There’s a slow slink of funk threading through the new album from ORB. The Aussie faves return with a new album for Flightless/Fuzz Club this Summer and the next single out of…
If The Kinks wrote an elegy for the buttoned down boredom of pre-war Britain, Marcel Wave have come along to scrape the post-industrial nostalgia off the shoes of their sons ‘n daughters.…
The evolution of Joe Ghatt continues on his sophomore LP, Caper. The debut came on like faded tape transmissions, beamed through the time and dusted with a touch of analog corrosion cloning…
It’s been a stretch since One Eleven Heavy has been on the speakers, so it comes as a welcome surprise this morning that the band has a new single out. The new…
A necessary bit of calm slides out at the tail end of the week with news of a new record on the way from Skyminds. The duo of Michael Henning (Selaroda, DJ…
After releasing a 2024 essential from Salsburg/Oldham/Trotter, No Quarter has got another fantastic collaboration on the way this week. Though collaboration is a bit underselling it. Beings is a band proper and…
The excellent jazz singles continue this morning with a new one from SML, the new West Coast outfit that brings together bassist Anna Butterss (Makaya McCraven, Daniel Villarreal), synth-smith Jeremiah Chiu (Ariel Kalma), saxophonist Josh Johnson (Carlos Niño),…
Rocket brings another dose of creosote and ash from Smote, the outfit headed by Daniel Foggin. On his latest, Smote’s sound expands, spilling onto two LPs and wandering from the barren bog…
Been a good year for deep jazz impressions and Brooklyn’s The Means of Production joins the fray with a new single off of their upcoming eponymous album. Initially formed as a studio…
Elijah McLaughlin’s no stranger to the site. HIs works under the Elijah McLaughlin ensemble have been cropping up here for some time, but on his latest collaboration with Caleb Willitz, the Chicago…
Another great gush of indie pop out of Swiftumz in the run up to his latest ablum, Simply The Best. San Francisco has always been packed with pop, but Christopher McVicker has…
Gururguru Brain has been a constant source of some of my favorite psychedelic gems from the last few years. The label started 10 years ago with a digital comp called Guruguru Brain…
Pacific Range were the consummate California cosmic travelers. In their brief tenure they caught an immaculate wind that carried their sound far and wide. The band has parted ways, but songwriter Stewart…
A bit of a sendoff for the beloved label Sunrise Ocean Bender as Stockholm’s E GONE (Daniel Westerlund) preps the final album in a trilogy begun back in 2016. The album carves…
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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