Category: Features

We mark the progression of our lives by the holidays. The day you enter this world becomes an instant holiday - your birthday - which your friends and family are obligated to celebrate even if they don't really like you. If you positively impact the lives of enough...

"Why are you dodging like this? They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." - The almost-last words of Union General John Sedgwick before getting shot in the head Everyone can use a little Almost. The bullet almost missed General Sedgwick (probably not, but you’d...

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....

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...

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 "less than...

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 Luck, Now's new...

Mike Herz is still fighting the good fight. Suburban family man, high school English teacher, writer and singer of deeply personal songs. Mike is every man’s Everyman, refusing to go gently into that long post-graduate good night where dreams of artistry die and where...