Category: Song of the Day

In the brief history of Reverb Raccoon's Song of the Day, we've visited Scotland, Austria, Tasmania, and a sweep of American towns. Today we journey to Perth, a lovely but rather expensive village in Western Australia of which I've had the pleasure to visit a few...

Today we are treated to a wonderful, whimsical, slice of power pop: "Funny Things" from Static In Verona. The song is a wall of melody and massed harmonies, heavy drums and bass on the bottom, light touches of guitar and keyboard, even handclaps. Everything that I...

Today's song of the day comes to us all the way from Portland, Oregon: "Might Not Survive" by Frenz. From the upcoming album Flower Farm (due to hit the stores April 20), "Might Not Survive" is a bit of well-produced fuzzy pop that, at two minutes twenty-five, doesn't...

Today we feature two songs from the album Your Next Place Will Be Nice Too, by Tasmanian folk musician Teri Young (aka Theresa Young). "You Dug Me a Garden" begins with lightly plucked cittern, adds voice, harmonies, strings, and ends with nearly two minutes of...

 Who doesn't like a good hornpipe? Well, probably a lot of people. But here at Reverb Raccoon, we embrace all types of music and musicians, including old time fiddlers like Kelly Jones of the Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers Association (MSOTFA to the cognescenti)....

"Fickle Blood," a new song by Forage and Wander, is instantly engaging with a softly strummed guitar changing to upbeat chords over downbeaten drums. More of a mini-suite, the shifting textures and tempos recall Uncle Tupelo (the usual suspect cited in these...

As Ernie Banks said, "Let's play two!" Today we feature two songs, "Sea to Shining Sea" and "The Ties That Bind Us" from the album Vanishing Point by Cloud Atlas. These showed up in Bandcamp's Folk section, and immediately jumped out from the...

"For Autumn" is an easy, slightly breathy waltz with a great melody. In its present voice-and-guitar form it's more of a demo, but relax your brain and imagine an acoustic bass, a piano, some tasteful strings. Like our previous Song-of-the-Day subject, Allison is...

"Now You're Here" starts off with a classic, catchy piano hook and... Well, that's pretty much the entire song. But it's a good riff with a Todd Rundgrenesque quality. And at two-minutes forty-eight seconds, it's just six seconds over the magic 2:42 that marks the...

Troy Santolla is young, semi-good-looking, and a Kappa Sigma at Appalachian State. And that combination has him pulling mad numbers of bitches. As Troy tells us in his new single, "Frat Rap," he's ballin' 24/7 and enjoying every second of it. "Frat Rap" is about the...