The last outing from Old Saw proved a captivating dive into the balance between ambient country and noise-folk. The Northeast collective scrapes the sinews that connect Black Twig Pickers, Joseph Allred, SUSS,…
Following quickly on their supple, subtle record from last year, Jasmine On A Night In July, Brooklyn’s Scree offer up an EP of new material, recorded live at The Owl Music Parlor.…
The Hanging Stars have long been a favorite around here and they’ve already got a year-ender hanging on my favorites list, but the band’s tributaries have been busy as well. Alongside the…
Its June already and here we are with the latest installment of Crawl Out From the Fallout with Raven Sings the Blues. This month is packed with new music, hardly letting in…
The new Beachwood Sparks album is topping my most anticipated pile for 2024 and the band let out what might be my favorite single from the new album at the tail end…
Six Months in, 2024 is already a world beater in terms of music. The slate is stacked with old favorites returning with new works, essential reissues, unlikely collaborations, tonal shifts, and killer…
Every new single out of Color Green just builds more anticipation for the upcoming Fool’s Parade. Culling back in a bit of their choogle after a dalliance with dazed atmospheres on the…
Following last year’s acclaimed album Western Sky Music, Jeffrey Silverstein returns to the EP format for his third short collection, Roseway. The LP found Silverstein progressing his sound, weaving ambient country’s caress…
Nashville outfit The Medium have been harnessing a sound that circles country without ever fully embracing it. More often picking up on ’70s singer-songwriter touchstones, the band layers harmonies over an Americana…
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…
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.
The site is written and maintained by Andy French.
































