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

• Whodini, Big Daddy Kane, Kool Moe Dee, Willie D

  published January 31, 2008

  The same way the deluge of horrid rap-metal in the late '90s sent throngs of appalled rock fans scurrying for the comforts of Led Zeppelin and... More >>

• Local Motion at Cactus Music

  published January 24, 2008

  Cactus Music 2110 Portsmouth, 713-526-9272 1. Radiohead, In Rainbows 2. Steve Earle, Washington... More >>

• The Night Diamond Dave Rejoined Van Halen

  published January 24, 2008

  FADE IN: INT. MGM GRAND PENTHOUSE SUITE, LAS VEGAS (NIGHT) The camera lingers on the full-length windows and panoramic view... More >>

• Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation's Dark

  published January 24, 2008

  Even devoted DBT fans may find the Alabama/Athens rockers' eighth album frustrating, or long-winded at the very least. It's 19 mostly acoustic,... More >>

• Dash Rip Rock

  published January 24, 2008

  F. Scott Fitzgerald couldn't have been more wrong: There are indeed second acts in American lives. How else could Dash Rip Rock go from one of... More >>

• Local Motion

  published January 17, 2008

  Vinal Edge Records 13171 Veterans Memorial Dr., 281-537-2575 Radiohead, In Rainbows... More >>

• Turtle Island Quartet

  published January 17, 2008

  San Francisco's Turtle Island Quartet looks like any other well-scrubbed chamber ensemble, with one crucial difference: Onstage, the group can... More >>

• The Art of Noise

  published January 17, 2008

  Music writers tend to be pack rats, accumulating all sorts of memorabilia over the years: gig posters, flyers and handbills; promotional... More >>

• Local Motion

  published January 10, 2008

  Sig's Lagoon 3710 Main, 713-533-9525 1. Jesse Dayton & Brennen Leigh, Holdin' Our Own 2. Grupo... More >>

• Goodbye, Proletariat

  published January 10, 2008

  Owning a nightclub, particularly one including music as a significant part of its business plan, isn't quite the same thing as gathering a huge... More >>

• Sophie Milman

  published January 10, 2008

  Sophie Milman is unusually well-­traveled for someone who has yet to post 25 years on the planet. Born in Russia and raised in Israel,... More >>

• Local Motion

  published January 3, 2008

  Sound Exchange 1846 Richmond, 713-666-5555 1. Vashti Bunyan, Some Things Just Stick in Your... More >>

• Texas Albums

  published January 3, 2008

  Back in June, when my friends learned I was leaving the Austin Chronicle for the assistant music editor post at the Press, most... More >>

• Loreta Kovacic

  published January 3, 2008

  Booked at Carnegie Hall in June — that's right, the Carnegie Hall — Croatian-born Houstonian Loreta Kovacic moves between... More >>