Quickly approaching, and fast rising as one of my favorite releases of the year, the new David Nance record is shaping into one of the best surprises of 2024. Odds are on…
A deep cut of mossen folk from UK songwriter Daisy Rickman this week. The first cut from Rickman’s upcoming LP, Howl, “Feed The Forest,” finds her deep in meditative form, letting the…
I’ll preface this by saying that I was quite a huge fan of J. McFarlane’s debut Ta Da. The record, the songwriter’s first under the name, and an extension of her post-Twerps…
Been a little while since I last head from the great Minneapolis Uranium Club and it’s great to see the band roaring back with a new bout of bile for 2024. The…
The new singles from the upcoming Meatbodies are hitting fast and leaving a few teeth marks on listeners in the lead up to Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom. The last single found the…
Amazing news today as RSTB faves Magic Tuber Stringband make the jump to Thrill Jockey, following in the stead of other bluegrass and folk experimenters like The Black Twig Pickers, Sally Anne…
Following up on 2022’s The Portrait You Painted of Me, Alison Cotton returns with a new album on the way for Rocket Recordings. Having lent her strings to The Left Outsides, The…
Real excited to see a new album on the way from local favorites Dominick and the Family Band. The group opened the very first Deep In The Valley Fest back in 2022…
Longtime favorites Jen Powers and Matthew Rolin have been winding their way through the American underground over the past decade, a duo that consistently capture the magic of musical exploration. The pair…
It’s a damn fine day for Americana and few things could prove it more than a new video from GodpelbeacH. The band preps their final album Wiggle Your Fingers for Brent’s own…
Last year Houston’s Alien Eyelid snuck onto the radar with their country ramble Bronze Star. The band nailed the down-river valley comforts of country tinged with a ripple of road tar that…
There was a time when it was so hard to keep up with the releases flying out of the Daniel Romano camp, I thought I’d never catch up. It seemed like the…
It’s the first Crawl Out From the Fallout of the year, and even though the singles are sparse in the wee hours of 2024, there are plenty of new and old favorites…
Everybody’s getting in on the releases this week and after an onslaught yesterday, I’m still catching up. Site favorites Meritorio announce a new single from Austin’s The Infinites. “The Queen” rolls around…
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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