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...
by Charles Norman | Aug 27, 2015 | Features
What is the luckiest thing that has happened to you of late? If you answered, “When the truck hit me, my car was totaled but I spilled only half my beer,” then maybe you need an uplift in the luck department. You need some Luck, Now! Try this: crank up...
by Charles Norman | Jul 7, 2015 | Off the Wall
In which we learn that the grass is not always greener on the other side. The trouble started when I left my jacket in the car. Or maybe it started when the plane touched down in Denver. Or maybe it started in 1975… If you attended college in the 70’s, you...
by Charles Norman | Jun 5, 2015 | Off the Wall
On a very rainy Houston night, Diann Marie and I ventured out into the soggy suburbs to take in Matt Nathanson, The Fray, and Train at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. A quick summary: all three acts were good, but Matt Nathanson is the only one that I will go out...
