It’s an absolute wealth of folk today and I’m excited to seen new work from one of the past few years’ rising faves. Magic Tuber Stringband dig through the twisted roots of…
Just on the tail of his excellent solo album, and still in the shadow of last year’s essential issue of Grass’ lost LP, Greg Weeks returns to the news around here with…
Big news for local fave Mikaela Davis today as she announces her new album for Kill Rock Stars. The Catskill songwriter’s spent the last few years vaulting to fame far afield, cutting…
Northwest perennial faves Abronia return to the fold at Feeding Tube for their most ambitious entry into the psych-folk canon yet. The album opens with the slow glow and hot wire finish…
Returning after a busy 2025, RSTB faves Population II follow up their last album and a year-ender collaboration with Yoo II and Nolan Potter with a new EP on the way this…
Just what a Monday called for, another little look into the new King Tuff! With a move back to his Vermont environs, the new cut is accompanied by a video featuring longtime…
Never flagging in their dedication to the psychedelic arts, longtime faves Triptides follow up both an album and accompanying EP from last year with a steady stream of singles in the beginning…
Excited to see a second single on deck from Frank Hurricane’s new one. Frank tees one up for the folks over at Nudie Records and both singles have found the people’s troubadour…
It’s shaping up to be another banner year over at Slumberland. After the announcement of a bounty of reissues from Rocketship, and Rachel Love, plus an expanded version of Love’s group Railcard’s…
A pitch perfect record of power pop rises up out of Detroit, a gift gilded in honeyed harmonies and delivered with a wink and a sneer. The band skips the ’90s revival…
A couple of days late on this, but the new single from Visible Cloaks is a perfect accompaniment to the crystal corridors of winter. The band returns for their third album, a…
Another huge one from this week finds respective legends Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer connecting for an album, forged as a series of requiems for the children of Gaza. The Sonic Youth…
A new video from the emotionally fraught, and ultimately triumphant album from West Coast multi-instrumentalist Aaron Shaw arrives today. Shaw, a collaborator of Anderson Paak, Herbie Hancock, Saul Williams and Carlos Niño,…
Recent collaborations between RSTB faves Elkhorn and Mike Gangloff helped to incubate a new band that sees light this year. Gangloff (Pelt, Eight Point Star) joins the always excellent Jesse Sheppard (Elkhorn,…
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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