Category: 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...

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...

What is it about relationships? At the beginning, you feel like the king of the fuckin’ universe. By the time it ends, you feel like a bucket of puke. And why do we always picture the Other Person as a glass of milk? You stalk her on Facebook, check her Twitter feed,...

My dad rose from the couch and stomped across the room to the television. Ignoring the announcer’s exhortation – “Don’t touch that dial!” – he dialed through the three channels that beamed out from Nashville to our home in the hills of the Upper Cumberland. Channel 4,...