Category: Song of the Day

It's Friday, time to get the weekend started. You'll need some good tunes to get through the next few days, which is obviously why you came to Reverb Raccoon: to find the best new music from independent musicians. Today's feature comes to us from London, a nice place...

Today we are treated to a jangly spoonful of pure twee pop. For those of you who just said "What's twee?", don't worry. Just listen to the song... "Summer's Failing" has everything that has been going into great pop songs since the day Phil Spector decided to write a...

Today's feature comes to us from Omaha, Nebraska, the city that gave us the bobby pin, the Reuben sandwich, and the Top 40 radio format. Our song of the day won't make the Top 40 unless they start letting me make the list. But that's why you're here: to discover the...

You're going to have to trust me on this one. Here at Reverb Raccoon, we have a Special Ability to listen to a fuzzy, lo-fi, one-take demo and hear the notes of talent that the mainstream music bloggers either miss or disregard. I was the lone voice who, back in 2014,...

Phil Spector said that he could spot a hit song by listening to the first sixteen beats. Or was it the first sixteen seconds? Either way, I have Phil beat: I can spot a great song by listening to the first sixteen notes. I heard the first sixteen notes of "Sweet Child...

Today Reverb Raccoon steps away from our usual folky-rocky comfort zone to feature an artist who has taken a road less traveled: Iwalani Venerable, aka Lani Grooves, creates songs for children. When my daughter was a wee lass, we started off each day by listening to a...

Every great song you've ever heard started out with somebody sitting around in their underwear noodling on a piano or guitar. Beethoven's Fifth? That's an underwear song if I ever heard one. Dude was sitting in front of his piano pissed off at his girlfriend because...

Today's feature comes to us from way up north (relative to Texas) in Kelowna, British Columbia. I had to look this place up. Turns out Kelowna is about halfway between Vancouver and Calgary. I've been to Calgary a few times. I was there once when it was -25F. If it...

Today's feature comes to us from Philadelphia, the city that booed Santa Claus. It's also the city that won the Super Bowl. I wore a Nick Foles Eagles jersey on my honeymoon last week because Nick and I are both winners. And you're a winner, too, because you came to...

Here at Reverb Raccoon, we have excellent tastes in music. Whether it is played on a borrowed guitar and recorded in a dorm room on an iPhone, or recorded in a studio with a full band of professional musicians, every song posted here is Quality Music To Which You...