Some good news coming into the new year with this announcement of a split from Wet Tuna and JJT’s Dunza moniker. Longtime favorites around here, both Matt Valentine and James Both have…
It’s been a welcome break over the past few weeks, but it’s time to get back into things — moving forward and continuing to comb through the scattered ends of 2023. This…
The tapes from Scissor Tail are always a lovely sight to behold. Set in small boxes, hand letterpressed cases with gold ink, the newest release from the label highlights the work of…
It’s becoming a bit of an annual tradition to wrap up some favorites from the Cosmic American landscape alongside the year-end list. This year is just as packed with great albums, EPs…
Just a few more odds and ends to go before I take a bit of a break for the holidays, but I’d be remiss not to mention this charity comp from RSTB…
It’s the last Crawl Out From the Fallout of the year, but that doesn’t mean that the well has run dry on new music. December’s often a desert for new releases, but…
It’s always hard to tie up the year, especially this year. How anyone was able to shave down a list before mid-December is beyond me, and since there were quite a few…
Somehow I feel like I didn’t get to enough reissues this year, at least not as many as I’d have liked, but there were some choice archival releases, and some that brought…
While everyone is already wrapping up the year, there’s still some work to do around here, and that includes a new Hidden Gems from Melenas. The band put their heads together for…
New single “Hole” finds Meatbodies back in fine form. After their last album took a bit of a lighter, less saturated approach to their sound, the band is back in the arms…
A bit of local love here for favorites Sky Furrows. The band’s second full length finds the Capital Region/Hudson Valley band back on the knife edge between psych and punk, chewing on…
NZ indie outfit Jim Nothing returns with a new single that’s chomping on fuzz and ready to pop. The band’s last album was packed full of riffs that threw back to ‘90s…
Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado returns with a new solo album, and, after years in the production chair of records from Beach Fossils, Weyes Blood, The Lemon Twigs, and Tim Heidecker, he fully embraces…
Been a couple of years now since Kayla Cohen’s Itasca has graced the scene, and its nice to have a new single from her this morning. The title track, “Imitation of War,”…
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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