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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 41m

“Bottled Lightning,” sharpens the focus on Whitney's Playland's pop sound. Fuming guitars with a fuzz crunch lead the way, opening space for Inna’s dream-glazed vocals. The song comes on like a quiet storm, a deluge of ‘90s-nipping growl culled from all the best corners bit.ly/4dlCf0U

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As Briar Daniel Romano takes an autumnal swerve towards 70s folk that brings to mind Judee Sill & The Roches. The lilting first single from Briar joins a growing cadre of wood-paneled folk that’s been filling the speakers, making a comfortable shelfmate for Beefheart & McQuinn & Fuses bit.ly/4xTxy5P

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Cosmic Love” reclines into jangle, letting harmonies hang like smoke rings over the top of the track. The song slips in slow, sidling through a chug that’s unhurried & hang-dog, but The Sprouts push the gas on the closing moments, finding an ecstasy somewhere in the storm of strums. bit.ly/4y2MJtF

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The record is enamored with the feeling of being adrift. It’s a nice mirror to the political and social battering that takes place daily. The loss of control, the overwhelming rise all around us, the predators among the depths; they’re all there in Linda’s Head. bit.ly/3Vfa9hM

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

20th anniversary celebration starts tomorrow! Tickets to both shows here! link.dice.fm/mnH8nrE0S6b?...

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another smudged single from Aluminum. “Distant Noise” is a hazy, heady cut that’s propulsive & pillowy at the same time. The band’s latest finds them pushing towards pop a bit more & it’s clear that they’re able to balance the shift without losing the fizz they were founded on bit.ly/4yrcrZC

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With a corrosive heart, a new Ryley Walker single takes an abrasive turn. The track balances restrained rage and bone-deep exhaustion; a nod to the day-wage erosion, the heartland heads who just want to get through, the tape-scratch experimenters, and the minimal-tone treaders. bit.ly/4iWaCza

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hunter Watts has spent years backing up West Coast luminaries like Sylvie & Drugdealer, time well spent leading up to his honeysuckle-hued debut for Valentine Recording Studios. Check out a live alternate take of the title track to his new EP. bit.ly/4AFeiM5

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Flowers Must Die decamped to Silence, the remote studio that was the site of recordings by Bo Hansson, Kebnekajse, & Träd Gräs Och Stenar. The former commune was a hub of creativity and the band harnesses the energies that flowed through the walls, wires, and waters of the studio. bit.ly/4humFBh

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Real excited for longtime favorites @glenndonaldson.bsky.social to close out the anniversary weekend next Saturday. Come see the West Coast jangle pop outfit head up a stacked bill with Simon Joyner and Jeanines! link.dice.fm/RwfrzPqbO6b?...

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Klittens dip into Northwest ‘90s fare that feels like it’s chewing on the chaff of college rock’s rise to radio regulars. They never tip far from the brittle end of the bandwidth, always eyeing Kleenex & the Young Marbles in the corner even as they tear into Sleater-Kinney’s crown bit.ly/3VDmHzs

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

SOFTJAW leans towards the ‘70s power pop model, letting a little snarl into the mix, stacking strum and harmonies with nods towards the Memphis pocket and the flash of Cheap Trick. “Love Can’t Kill You” is a bright-lighted jangler that dips the guitars in crunch. bit.ly/477CUjb

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just about into the run up to these RSTB anniversary shows next week and It’s great to have Garcia Peoples at the head of night 1. The band’s been a perennial RSTB favorite. Come see them light up the stage at Tubby’s with Weak Signal! link.dice.fm/MWVeEqV6I6b?...

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Belbury Poly dives deep through hand-painted paperback covers & into the arms of ‘80s sword & sorcery films with an engrossing zeal. Somewhere in the badlands of Beastmaster, Krull, & Conan, Jupp is lurking with a synth in hand & a percolating riff that rolls down like poisoned sweat bit.ly/4dUiLR6

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Crying Lauging injects a post-punk ethos to the wracked rhythms of some of their more academic peers. The record is steeped in the same hypnotic pulses and vortex of repetition, but there’s a more stripped and shredded approach to the lock groove grind of modern meditative jazz. bit.ly/47gl7Ge

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I posted an early, live version of “Stretch Bath” a while back, but on tape the cut gains a heaviness & headiness that explores the full bounds of the studio. Opening with a crash of drums, Yr Knives pushes into tensile shards of guitar before they seethe & swell with an oceanic force bit.ly/4d3xWan

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m very excited that Simon Joyner is joining The Reds Pinks and Purples and Jeanines for day 2 of Raven’s 20th anniversary celebration on 10/3. Always a live favorite, Simon captivates on stage! link.dice.fm/j6i3yrlNF6b?...

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Highlighting this for folks who missed it yesterday.

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Chapter Music starts up a new reissue wing with a great batch to start. Rabbits Wedding is the highlight of the bunch. The short, but tight release is a literate jangle-pop treasure that’s living easy between the releases on the Strum n Thrum comp, Feelies, and The Bats. bit.ly/4xJpLrk

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m very excited to get Weak Signal back at at Tubby's! The band has long been one of my favorites and they're always an amazing live show. The band is back in Kingston with Garcia Peoples on 10/2. bit.ly/4hHf2I3

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Freebies "Friends" is a breathless blast of sun, packed with the kind of charms that keep Dolly Mixture and Marine Girls on mixtapes year over year. The genre loves a stripped back strummer and The Freebies are happy to oblige. bit.ly/4iAljXX

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Goodbye Summertime is a maximalist power pop gem. The Goods feel their way through Fanclub strums & Matthew Sweet’s bittersweet blush while pulling from The Apples in Stereo in both their Wallpaper Reverie and Velocity crunch. Goodbye Summertime runs neck & neck with the best of 2026 bit.ly/4y2TMTN

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dipped in the haziest ends of the country canon, Faler pairs fog-framed twang with a hangover from is Paisley Pop days in Dream Boys. “On My Way” is a gauzy jangler that chases the sun over the horizon, smeared with the stains of canyon callers & ‘80s New Wave alike. bit.ly/4yNJ1ok

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Site favorites @jeanines-band.bsky.social are headed to Tubbys in Kingston in a couple of weeks (10/3) to help me celebrate the site’s 20th anniversary. A great bill with Simon Joyner and The Reds, Pinks and Purples! link.dice.fm/dWed3l6ux6b?...

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Space Jaguar lets a fascination with Fanclub, Sugar, & The Lemonheads huddle under a hankering for Big Star. Grassick has a knack for big hooks hung on strums & a heart-on-sleeve hummability that’s easy to love as it reimagines the ‘90s without giving way to the grit of grunge. bit.ly/4yEwxiQ

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Woolen Kits make a surprise return. Their often stripped-bare bluster has gained a bit of a scrub-up on the new single. They open up the doors to The Clean and The Bats on the new song, sparring big, buoyant strums and delightful hums against their reedy hooks. bit.ly/4AkoGZi

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

With a cadre of covers as its basis, the new Howlin Rain swings back to the scrubbed-up vision of the band just post major-label days. Exploring favorites from Mountain to Moby Grape, Rundgren, Walker, Hardin, Judee Sill & Mountain Bus & feat Ty Segall, David Nance, & Chris Robinson! bit.ly/3Vgef9a

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Roman Norfleet returns to his long-running outfit Be Present Art Group for a new LP of Spiritual Jazz rooted in liberation, resistance, & revolution. First single “Headed On To Freedom” carries a marching beat and chanted chorus, side-slipping through ecstatic bursts of electric jazz. bit.ly/4AjUH3E

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A new Moby Beefheart cut feels like a bonus on the year-end contender from Beefheart & McQuinn. Soft strums still prevail & this one is for the meditative folk heads who are winding their way through Drake, Martyn, Sill, and Dalton as they wait for those Autumn leaves to start falling bit.ly/46ktIrd

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Doused in a proper deluge of velveteen aesthetics, the record swings wide between ‘60s psych pop like The Free Design or Margo Guryan, complete with horns and tangled harmonies. It’s a lovely debut, warmed by Summer suns and sunnier strums. bit.ly/4yzTaVz

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Formal Sppeedwear is primed on the kind of kinetic energy that coursed from Talking Heads to The Units & Starter. Honing in on the hackles of the early ’80s, they distill the the hinge from punk to synth into a riot of sharpened guitars, malleable bass, and high energy hooks. bit.ly/4ywxERC

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Wing” jangles with the best of them, but it’s soaked in sighs, giving heart to the cast of sock puppets in the new video. The cut pulls from ‘60s sunshine psych, cozying up just as easily with newcomers like The Mellons and classic cuts from Curt Boettcher or Yellow Balloon. bit.ly/4A9dkHL

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The Reds, Pinks & Purples @glenndonaldson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

on the east coast a bit in three weeks...tell a friend, frenemy, ex lover, or current crush, I have songs for all of them.

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Massachusetts outfit The Croaks have a knack for digging into the blood beneath the dirt in folk, spinning vernal, seasoned tales that nip at tradition without feeling staid. The band approaches the edge of folk’s buttoned down roots & slips a few twists of the knife into the formula. bit.ly/4A6vg5x

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hard Life still leans heavy into the chafe of class and capital set to a Celtic lilt. They juxtapose Richard Thompson’s poisoned heart, Dexy’s patched-knee poetics, and the grandiosity of The Go-Betweens, while adding in some deep furrows from Chris Haigh’s fiddle. bit.ly/4regZA0

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A lean & limber bout of power pop lands today from Tom Henry. Big strums & bright horns push “Someone I Need” onto the speakers with a joyous jolt that’s underscored by just a touch of Memphis twang, pitting its Rhodes/McCartney swing against shades of Big Star & The Hot Dogs. bit.ly/4xhtwnu

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Longtime RSTB fave Ryley Walker joins Gift Horse on their new album. Still pulsing with boiler room darkness, the band turns the pressure cooker atmosphere into a sound that pits industrial and post-punk textures against Walker’s glowing desert blues leads. bit.ly/46dvoCT

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

RSTB faves Mountain Movers return this week. The new album takes a darker turn through tense passages that highlight the band’s impeccable interplay. “Killing Frost” finds the band seething through a nocturnal sweat, cold and anxious, bristling against the humid atmospheres. bit.ly/4hjHsbN

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Still simmered in the sunlight of ‘70s folk, country, & pop, a new Sylvie single feat. Alex Amen. Draped in honeyed harmonies, exquisite guitar runs & the kind of production that radiated from Lightfoot, Taylor, & No Other-era Gene, “Rina” is a perfect companion to easy Sept mornings. bit.ly/4ypM1XL

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Longtime site favorite Andy White (Tonstartssbandht) returns as Andy Boay. The first single off of his new album, Doomed embraces the vocal gymnastics of his past releases, tumbling through his saturated wonderland with thrumming bass, percolating keys, and sunshine harmonies. bit.ly/4gHo7kG

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A Gaussian blur turns the lights to crystals all around Panfilov’s work, but amid the kaleidoscopic swirl is a verdant lightness that’s always welcome. Linking the natural to the cosmic, the analog world of Panfilov caresses the listener in bucolic breezes. bit.ly/4A8QdNA

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This month’s edition of Crawl Out From the Fallout is packed with new music. Tune in tonight from 8-10 pm EST on @wgxc-90point7fm.bsky.social or stream at their site! wavefarm.org/wf/archive/g...

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The first taste of Lou Turner’s new album, Strangels is a verdant cool down fixed with flute trills, soft strums, and Lou’s painterly visions of uncertain times and an unbuttoning of the soul. The song opens up the new album with a a familiar dose of charm and a satisfying saunter. bit.ly/4xdCUIR

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Been keeping tabs on The Thorn for a while now and the band never fails to bring a fresh take on UK/EU psych folk. This time the band tackles a cover of traditional French ballad “La Pernette” giving strong Trees / Pentangle / Fairport vibes to the tale of forbidden love bit.ly/3UvWx1e

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The band jumps from the electric Miles palette to textural grooves, hinging on the oil slick interplay between Harrington’s guitar and Walter’s keys. The rhythm section screws things down tight, letting improv lead the way down endless rabbit holes of heat and humidity. bit.ly/4xFmqKC

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Belbury Poly capture the feeling of ‘80s fantasy on “Dreamthief,” a dark dive into dank forests and the kind of swamps that would have been populated by Hensen creatures and a strange unease. bit.ly/4x3Y8sz

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Over a spare beat, Nowhere Flower carves sequestered incantations into tape. Her layered improvisations scratch out a slowly festering brand of pop; fogged and feral, prodded by electronic impulses. The song marches on into the dark corners, pulsing like a beacon, sighing all the way. bit.ly/4cSAjww

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Sweat taps into the kind of towering stage presence that would make a Rush fan blush and give hope to those who’ve been holding on since Heart was on the charts. They balance that jumpsuited swagger with a dirtiness that digs through the dollar bins of glam and early power pop. bit.lie/3UwFDPV

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Allah-Las flirt with funk but retain a salt scrub that’s loose and laconic; a sockless saunter through ‘70s dance that keeps one eye on the neon nightlife and another on the next days tides. An album for letting go, for letting the needle of fate find the road forward. bit.ly/4guZQ1h

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

RSTB favorites Sylvie have announced a new album, signing to Ghostly International for their debut, New Seasons. The band’s been consulate purveyors of sun-faded ‘70s Americana and there’s no signs of stopping from the feel of the new sneak peak here. www.instagram.com/reel/DcteOfu...

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