Category: Song of the Day

Like many of our previous Songs of the Day, today's offering turned up in Bandcamp's Folk section. That bin has proven to encase a pleasing mix of styles, from locations as diverse as Australia, Austria, England, Scotland, and the US. Today we visit the southern...

Mike Herz delivers songs of stark personal imagery. The listener must confront the words. This isn't music to drone in the background while playing Words With Friends. If you want to listen to a Mike Herz album, you have to sit down and listen to it. "Naked Heart" was...

Today the folks at Reverb Raccoon venture far out of our comfort zone and into the world of rap. Since we don't know much about this genre, you the reader will be spared the obscure references to other songs and artists that we often cite in a futile attempt to look...

On February 16th, Reverb Raccoon and his thousands of loyal readers set out on a totally unrealistic and unattainable endeavor: to feature one song each day for 365 days. Thus far, we've managed to keep the string going for a bit over two weeks, even while getting...

Today Reverb Raccoon's journey through the world of music, with daily stops at the best songs of which you've never heard (along with some of which you have) brings us to Liège, Belgium, a city which I've had the pleasure to visit. "Je t'aime aujourd'hui" ("I love you...

A wise man once said, "There are no bad songs, only bad performances." I don't remember who said that, but he and or she had obviously never spent an hour listening to the New Arrivals on Bandcamp. Ninety-nine percent of them are damn near unlistenable, and I'm pretty...

High Aldwin: Go in the direction the bird is flying!Burglekutt Prefect: It's going back to the village!High Aldwin: Ignore the bird. Follow the river.-- From Willow (directed by Ron Howard, 1988) I guess the moral of the story is, sometimes you follow the bird and...

Kathleen Smith is a writer and singer of timeless, classic love songs. Her songs could have been sung seventy years ago, and may be sung seventy years from now. That is why, in our Wedding Reception Playlist, we slotted "Love Superstar" right after songs by Margaret...

Excerpts from Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov The accumulation of consecutive rooms in his memory now resembled those displays of grouped elbow chairs on show, and beds, and lamps, and inglenooks which, ignoring all space-time distinctions, commingle in the soft light of a...