by Charles Norman | Feb 10, 2014 | Features
The Sweets Greatest Hits is a wonderful lo-fi mess of hooks, stuck-in-your-head melodies, reverby guitars, and wistful energy. But through the hum, hiss, and distortion, you hear, feel, and enjoy the unique creativity that drives The Sweets. The Sweets are brothers...
by Charles Norman | Jan 24, 2014 | Music
I have seen post-grunge alt-folk country dream pop future and its name is Wormbag. Wormbag slammed into the Portland music scene in 2012. The following year they arrived near the bottom of Willamette Week’s Best New Band poll of music industry insiders, barely edging...
by Charles Norman | Jan 15, 2014 | Song of the Day
Newglads – Make Believe Hi, it’s me again. The cat. Well, the Food Guy is in another one of his moods. He fed me, then he got back in bed and spent most of the morning Googling names like Ted Piercefield and Danny Kirwan. Then he listened to Gerry...
by Charles Norman | Jan 7, 2014 | Family
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. -Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five Three hundred million years ago Rudman County lay beneath a calcium carbonate-rich sea. The waters were shallow, less than six feet deep in many places, and they moved across the shelf with...
by Charles Norman | Dec 26, 2013 | Off the Wall
As the year draws to a close, we recognize those who make Reverb Raccoon possible: you, the musicians about whom I write. Without you I would not be writing anything, which would be a great disappointment to the vast hoard of loyal Reverb Raccoon readers who flock to...
