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Don't Stop Believin'
By Chris Gray
Published: January 29, 2009
Noise has been thinking about the relationship between faith, music and religion — call it spirituality if you must — a lot lately, but it really hit a high-water...
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Freddie Krc
By Chris Gray
Published: January 22, 2009
Foggy London town seems like the last place on Earth to inspire a country album. A polyglot postmodern road map like M.I.A.'s Arular or jittery riff encyclopedia like Arctic...
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Houston's Most Unique Address
By Chris Gray
Published: January 15, 2009
Those of us who have come to reside upstairs in the Continental Club building at 3700-3718 Main — half a block long, 70 or so feet high, built in the late '20s —...
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Huntzville's School-Shooting Song Raises an Even More Disturbing Issue
By Chris Gray
Published: January 8, 2009
Hard to believe it's been 20 years since gangsta rap went overground with N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton, which riled the powers that be enough for the FBI to send the...
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2008 in Texas Albums and Local EPs
By Chris Gray
Published: January 1, 2009
It always amazes Noise how many people manage to actually record and release music, never more so than when trying to play catch-up with all the Texas recordings from any given...
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The Year in Albums
By Chris Gray
Published: December 25, 2008
Don't believe the hype. The album is alive and well and procreating furiously. Too furiously. Printed out, the Wikipedia entry for albums released in 2008 — itself far...
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The Best Christmas Album of 2008 is... Metal?
By Chris Gray
Published: December 18, 2008
Perhaps Willie Nelson said it best: "This looks like a December day." Or Merle Haggard: "If we make it through December..." The icy wind whips through the trees, retail...
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Making Sense of a Trying Year
By Chris Gray
Published: December 11, 2008
Although it seems like it, Noise doesn't listen to music all the time. Sometimes he watches DVDs. His immediate past viewing includes both bang-bang seasons of NBC's...
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Texas Music on Sirius/XM's Outlaw Country
By Chris Gray
Published: December 4, 2008
"And I can sing all those songs about Texas..." — David Allan Coe, "Longhaired Redneck" In that longhaired redneck's most famous song, 1975's "You Never Even Called Me by...
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Noise's Handy Holiday Local-Music Gift Guide
By Chris Gray
Published: November 27, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving, Houston. (Go Horns!) The holiday shopping season starts Friday, and considering the state of the economy, many of you loyal consumers are no doubt looking...
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Me and Mr. Jones
By Chris Gray
Published: November 20, 2008
To paraphrase one of his favorite Iggy Pop songs, Noise is now the passenger. So for all of his Facebook friends wondering why his "status" is now a quote from Wilco's A.M. gem...
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Houston Goes International with the Latin Grammys
By Chris Gray
Published: November 13, 2008
Thursday night, for the first time in its history, Houston will be front and center on the international musical stage when the curtain rises on the ninth annual Latin Grammy...
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Fund-raiser Blues
By Chris Gray
Published: November 6, 2008
Every day seems to bring more bad news. "Consumer Spending Tumbles," blared last Friday's Houston Chronicle, two days after the Federal Reserve lowered the benchmark interest...
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Music to Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil
By Chris Gray
Published: October 30, 2008
Hank Williams and Jim Morrison knew it. Did they ever. Temple-born bluesman Blind Willie Johnson had a pretty good idea, owning up "Dark Was the Night — Cold Was the...
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House of Lightnin'
By Chris Gray
Published: October 23, 2008
Now open just under two weeks, House of Blues Houston has immediately set a high standard — not just for other music venues in the city, but for itself. A...
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This One Time at BandCamp
By Chris Gray
Published: October 16, 2008
This is starting to sound like a broken record. But maybe this time it'll be different. Isn't that what they always say? The topic at hand, once again, is how to "fix"...
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The Greatest Texas Rock Album of All Time
By Chris Gray
Published: October 9, 2008
Song for song and pound for pound, what is the greatest Texas rock album of all time? Well, grab a Lone Star or three and let's discuss. Old-timers would no doubt cast their...
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The Best of ACL Fest
By Chris Gray
Published: October 2, 2008
I'd like to think that as I "mature," I'm getting savvier about covering outsize musical events like SXSW and the Austin City Limits Music Festival. But the truth is, I'm...
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Welcome to Never Ever Land
By Chris Gray
Published: September 25, 2008
What a weird, weird week — a week that's convinced me Houston has to be the coolest big city that bestrides this North American continent. Hurricane Ike knocked us on our...
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In Need: Signal to Noise
Houston experimental-music journal needs a hand
By Chris Gray
Published: September 18, 2008
Recently, one of Noise's contributors forwarded me an e-mail from Pete Gershon, editor and publisher of Houston-based experimental-music journal Signal to Noise. Facing rising...
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