Scott McCaughey

Best Albums of the Year, 2006 Part II

In Their Own Time

How deep is your love for the Bee Gees?

Rotation

How deep is your love for the Bee Gees?

Flannel File: Screaming Trees, Dust

Is there any file more flannel-y than that of Screaming Trees - a hard-rock band with long hair from Seattle, influenced by the sounds of the '70s and '80s, whose career began to take off in the early '90s but was brought down by substance abuse and infighting? Tom Moon, in his very cool book 10 ... More >>

Pine Bluffing

Texan Joe Cripps is finally coaxing a new record out of Delta blues legend CeDell Davis

ACL 2009 Day Two: Phoenix, Robyn Hitchcock and Them Crooked Vultures

Photo by Matthew Taplinger​The quality of the grass at ACL on Charles Attal's apparent birthday blow out (if projections for "Feliz Cumpleanos" were to be believed) was nothing to sniff at. The great lawn of Zilker Park was emerald and ready to absorb the dance steps of a sold-out crowd with h ... More >>

Centro-matic Paints A Tighter Picture On Candidate Waltz

Matt Pence​Will Johnson, enigmatic front man of Denton rock outfit Centro-matic, is chuckling over reviews for the band's latest album, Candidate Waltz (Undertow/Thirty Tigers). "For the most part they've been good, but even the negative ones - and there are some that are so negative - I can ... More >>