Email Author Chris Gray

Awards

• 2012 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published February 10, 2011

  "Getting Past the Bouncer"

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2008 Stories by Chris Gray

• Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd

  published August 7, 2008

  Brash as he is, and certainly no stranger to the cameras of TMZ-type programs, Kid Rock has been underestimated pretty much ever since his 1998... More >>

• Just How Texan are Hayes Carll and Miranda Lambert?

  published August 7, 2008

  Among the Carrie Underwood clones and Kenny Chesney knockoffs, country music has gotten interesting again — and, as has happened so often in... More >>

• The 2008 Houston Press Music Awards Ceremony

  published August 7, 2008

  "This is a huge night for me." So said Bun B backstage at Warehouse Live last Wednesday, shortly after receiving the third top-tier... More >>

• Secret Saturday Festival

  published July 31, 2008

  For the past year, one of the most pleasant places in town to see live music has been the patio at Shady Tavern on the northern edge of the... More >>

• The 2008 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase Is Filled with Talent and Absurdity

  published July 31, 2008

  Well, as they say in Hollywood, that's a wrap. And as they say in Houston, "Damn! I can't believe I ate the whole thing!" We kid, we kid. But... More >>

• Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra

  published July 24, 2008

  German native Ottmar Liebert is one of the few flamenco artists who can sell out midsize rooms, but his Houston fans have a rare opportunity to... More >>

• Mathletes: #$@% You and Your Cool

  published July 24, 2008

  Joe Mathlete writes songs the way other people might write an e-mail or grocery list. As such, his output tends to be scattershot, but when... More >>

• Locals Only

  published July 24, 2008

  Two Star Symphony gets around. The Houston avant-classical quartet has a couple of interesting collaborations on the books: the... More >>

• Can Alternative Venues Jump-Start the Local Music Scene?

  published July 17, 2008

  The day after the Fourth of July could have been a glimpse of Houston's musical future. New York symphonic-metal lunatic Andrew W.K. and Austin... More >>

• Eric Idle, with the Houston Symphony

  published July 17, 2008

  For a symphony orchestra, audience laughter during a performance is something to be avoided at all costs — unless, that is, Eric Idle is... More >>

• Locals Only

  published July 17, 2008

  He may not have invented it — it's actually a kind of syncopation common to the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms — but he... More >>

• Warlocks: Heavy Deavy Skull Lover

  published July 10, 2008

  It's hard to imagine doing anything while listening to Heavy Deavy Skull Lover except lying on the couch in a substance-induced stupor... More >>

• Bob Log III, Scott H. Biram, Possessed by Paul James

  published July 10, 2008

  If you're unfamiliar with Hillgrass Bluebilly Entertainment, it's the Austin-based booking agency whose clients make generous use of the stomp... More >>

• Peeking Inside the Shadowy Crypt of Houston's Goth Community

  published July 10, 2008

  Thursday is a red-letter day for a curious, long-lived musical subculture that, the rest of the year, generally favors black. Bauhaus founder and... More >>

• Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men with the Blues

  published July 3, 2008

  Did music really use to be less complicated, or does it just seem that way? Maybe it's just that life used to be less complicated, and music is... More >>

• The Geto Boys Reunite

  published July 3, 2008

  Twenty years after three virtual strangers came together in a Houston recording studio, the Geto Boys' legacy is secure. Individually and... More >>

• Moses Guest

  published July 3, 2008

  Most of the band doesn't live here anymore, but Best Laid Plans, the latest CD from Moses Guest (Continental Club, July... More >>

• Ten Things I Love About the Houston Music Scene

  published June 26, 2008

  Whether driving or dating or writing a weekly column, once you get past that first time, it's all gravy. So for my first go-round as music editor,... More >>

• The Hates: 30 Years of Hate 1978-2008

  published June 26, 2008

  Houston's Hates — or at least the trio's sole remaining original member, singer/guitarist Christian Arnheiter — have been waving... More >>

• Gary Panter

  published June 12, 2008

  Two years ago, Gary Panter was featured alongside Charles Schulz, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman... More >>

• Season in the Sun, Part II

  published June 12, 2008

  The summer classic rock invasion continues this week with the Doobie Brothers/Chicago show Saturday at the Woodlands Pavilion. As always, we're... More >>

• “African American Battlefields of the Civil War: Contemporary Photography by William Earle Williams”

  published June 5, 2008

  After President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, more than 180,000 African-American soldiers fought in the Union Army, in... More >>

• Poi Dog Pondering

  published June 5, 2008

  It takes 12 people, and sometimes more, to bring Poi Dog Pondering frontman Frank Orrall’s patchwork quilt of rock, folk, funk, soul and... More >>

• DJ Tiësto Hits the Decks

  published June 5, 2008

  Tiësto knows what it’s like to command a crowd. The Netherlands-based DJ became the first turntablist to appear onstage at an Olympic... More >>

• Dax Riggs

  published June 5, 2008

  Fat Possum Records' business model would give second thoughts to anyone who thinks the proverbial deal with the devil is as much a musty museum... More >>