by Charles Norman | Nov 4, 2015 | Features
Eons ago, in the Cretaceous Era of my youth, I washed ashore against the rocky substrate of Spearfish, South Dakota. The town had little to recommend it, save a view of red sandstone hills and a bar called Bernie’s that served cheap 3.2 beer at happy hour....
by Charles Norman | Oct 6, 2015 | Off the Wall
He came in late one afternoon hot from football practice and raided the Kappa Alpha icebox. He also ate a dozen bananas and washed ’em down with a pint of whiskey. An hour later he was dead. It wasn’t sad at all. – From Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee This week...
by Charles Norman | Sep 18, 2015 | Features
What is your Go-To Music, the sounds you crank up when it’s Headphone Time in the Cubicle, when the traffic grinds to a halt for no apparent reason, when the biography of Harry Truman that you are determined to finish needs a soundtrack, when you check Google...
by Charles Norman | Sep 12, 2015 | Features
Here at Reverb Raccoon, we have a simple goal: find good music and write something interesting about it. To that end, I have spent many hours browsing Bandcamp’s New Arrivals, searching for pearls in a sea of fallow oysters. Much of what I hear is either...
by Charles Norman | Sep 1, 2015 | Song of the Day
Since the moment humans crawled from the primordial ooze, descended from the trees, appeared in the Garden of Eden, or stepped from the spaceship, we have each sought – and usually failed spectacularly – to change our Facebook status to “In A...
