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The Raincoats played two nights, and by the second night, the crowd was singing along like they were pop stars: “they’d taped the first show and gone home, obsessively listened, and learned the words phonetically.”

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025

Still, Birch and her bandmates in the Raincoats always had a certain unassuming chutzpah, even when they were just starting out.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023

In the late ’70s, she was a London-based music journalist who rolled so deep with the punks she wrote about — the Slits, the Raincoats — that her critical distance could be measured in microns.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2021

As a producer and remixer, Bovell was sought out by bands who “wanted to play their punk as heavy as reggae was,” recording with artists such as Orange Juice and the Raincoats in the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2021

Raincoats was like oitermobiles; no one had discovered 'em yet.

From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Glass, Montague