Here we go, the first installment of an irregular series in which I plan on highlighting some of my favorite voices online (and beyond). We’re kicking off with Raven Sings The Blues. Based in NYC, since 2006, Raven has been a go-to source dealing in garage, psych, lo-fi and other related curiosities—both new and old. I asked RavenAndy to curate the following mixtape summing up RSTB’s aesthetic. At 20+ tracks, it does just that. Andy is my guest this Friday during the second hour of my SIRIUS XMU show. Grab this mix and be sure to bookmark his site.
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Download: AD Presents :: Raven Sings The Blues – A Mixtape (Zipped Folder 76 MB)
SIDE A – Raven Sings The Blues
1. Vermilion Sands – I’m a Little Mixed Up
2. Kim and Grim – You Don’t Love Me
3. The Zombies – Sticks and Stones
4. Ganglians – Blood On The Sand
5. Bad Sports – And It Goes
6. UV Race – Gore Orphanage
7. Flight – Feels So Good
8. Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue – (It’s the) New Dark Ages
9. Ty Segall – So Alone
10. Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Colour Television
SIDE B – Raven Sings The Blues
1. The Primitives – Really Stupid
2. The Twinkeyz – Little Joey
3. Hornet Leg – Wait
4. Woven Bones- If You’re Gold, I’m Gone
5. Jacuzzi Boys – Smells Dead
6. Christmas Island – Twenty Nine
7. Sonny and the Sunsets – Too Young Too Burn
8. Jay Reatard – Pull Down the Shades
9. Wooden Wand – Distance is Free
10. Joseph Childress – Leaving the Barren Ground
11. King Tuff – Staircase of Diamonds
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This is a great idea!
Thanks! This and RSTB are two of my fav blogs!
1 | Mark William Wales February 8th, 2010 at 4:54 pmlol what’s up with the artwork?
2 | theMike February 8th, 2010 at 5:12 pmVery nice, thanks…this will help with what has been a lazy Chicago winter
3 | Chris February 8th, 2010 at 6:08 pmArtwork: Isn’t that Adam and the Ants circa Kings of the Wild Frontier?
4 | Dropnamer February 8th, 2010 at 7:08 pmwhen are we gonna get a winter mix from mondo boys?!
5 | chad February 8th, 2010 at 7:43 pm[...] on-point blogs — allow me to point your direction towards Aquarium Drunkard, who just posted an excellent garage-psych-rock mixtape compiled by Raven Sings The Blues. OK, you get [...]
6 | Passion of the Weiss » Blog Archive » Queens of LA’s Lo-Fi Scene February 8th, 2010 at 8:08 pm@chad – soon (it’s already done).
7 | Satisfied '75 February 8th, 2010 at 8:45 pmBRILLIANT!!
8 | Yair Yona February 8th, 2010 at 11:49 pm[...] This is just great. one of my favorite blogs Aquarium Drunkard, is hosting a guest mixtape by another brilliant blog – Raven Sings The Blues. A fantastic lo-fi/psych mixtape, brings ease to my mind. Do not miss it. [...]
9 | Round the block | Small Town Romance February 9th, 2010 at 12:32 amThe costumes remind me of Lord Mortality. He’s hilarious!
http://vimeo.com/9238571
10 | Jenny February 9th, 2010 at 3:22 amI think those are pictures of boy scouts. They’re all wearing Order of the Arrow sashes, a sort of secret society within scouts.
11 | m February 9th, 2010 at 1:30 pmwhat a fantastic mix! thanks so much to AD & Raven for kicking ass…please keep’em coming.
12 | cindy c February 11th, 2010 at 2:41 pm[...] guest is Andy from Raven Sings The Blues. You can check out the mixtape Andy curated for the show here. Below is this week’s [...]
13 | Aquarium Drunkard » SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show February 12th, 2010 at 10:01 amReally digging this comp, thanks
14 | Rich February 21st, 2010 at 2:30 pm[...] Previously: AD Presents :: Raven Sings The Blues – A Mixtape [...]
15 | Aquarium Drunkard » AD Presents :: Ponytone: A Cross-Cultural Mixtape March 1st, 2010 at 8:32 am[...] now this one from Ty Segall and tell me which one was released last year. When I downloaded the Raven Sings the Blues mixtape over at Aquarium Drunkard one track really stood out for me and that was a Twenty Nine by [...]
16 | Listen to This: Christmas Island – Twenty Nine | that essence rare April 20th, 2011 at 8:11 pmSo many of the links from mix tapes have been disabled. Is it still possible to get any of these? Im a good 3 years late…
17 | Ned May 13th, 2013 at 10:46 am