This coming weekend, massively influential NYC melodic indie-rockers Texas Is The Reason reunite in their home city for one weekend (and only one weekend) to celebrate the 10th anniversary release of their final album Do You Know Who You Are?. SCR talked to guitarist Norman Brannon (neé Arenas) to get the skinny... [more] || [Mel House] || [11/23/06]

Bands spawned from other groups always seem to have a rougher time of it than their original bands, and usually with good reason. Was the duo of Page and Plant better than Led Zeppelin? Was Slash's Snakepit better than Guns'N'Roses? Far from it, so being skeptical of a group like The Raconteurs is not an unplausible concept. Fortunately for musicians Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence, and Patrick Keeler, any skepticism is immediately rendered unfounded upon seeing the group's live performance... [more] || [David A. Cobb] || [11/04/06]