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No state in the U.S. is prouder of its history than Texas. You might get some argument from folks back East in, hell, maybe Massachusetts, but arguing with Yankees is easy...
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"Give Houston a big old kiss for me," signs off Mayo Thompson after more than an hour on the phone. Even after 15 minutes spent discussing various aspects of his hometown,...
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As you probably know by now, it's possible to find just about anything on the Internet. Nevertheless, Noise was shocked — shocked, we tell you — to run across the...
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We won't go so far as to say it means we're "maturing," but one sure sign Noise is getting older is that recently we've begun paying much more attention to jazz. Maybe it's...
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Noise has spent the past four columns looking backwards and frankly, our neck is a little sore. With a new year and a new decade (cue Nina Simone's "Feeling Good"), it's high...
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It feels a little foolhardy to even attempt to sum up the decade just past in a few paragraphs. For us, if the '00s were 3,653 days long (remember those leap years), that...
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Remember how Noise was bitching and moaning last week about the lack of solid front-to-back albums released in 2009? Add the following 15 records to the haystack-size...
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Noise used to look forward to toting up our favorite albums each December the way we once looked forward to Santa Claus. Then we got an iPod.
Suddenly all that "death of the...
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"I tell myself somethin's comin', but it never does"— Bob Dylan, "Lonesome Day Blues"
It's snowing outside as Noise writes this column. Why wouldn't it be? Just another...
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One of the hoariest clichés in a profession with all too many — namely, this one — is that "any press is good press." That means artists should be willing...
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Of the several periodic roundups of local releases we've done, our Fall '09 crop is the best thus far. We've been impressed by what we've heard from newcomers and old hands...
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There's a new fad taking hold on the hipster-crowded streets of deepest, darkest Montrose. Except this "fad" should be familiar to anyone who grew up in Texas and spent any...
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Attention Houston motorists: If you find yourself in the vicinity of lower Westheimer this weekend,please be careful.
What you are likely to find, besides a traffic snarl of...
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Before Charlie Hardwick realized he was losing his vision, he had already almost died.
Hardwick, 40, is a lifelong Houstonian, former punk rocker, husband to a middle-school...
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Does Houston have the next Hannah Montana in its midst?
It's too soon to tell, but Gabby Gillespie, 12, might have what it takes. A born charmer and seventh-grader at...
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The sky was midnight black, not blood red, above Reliant Stadium's open roof as U2 brought its epic 360º tour to Houston last Wednesday. And even without the four band...
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Break out the black fingernail polish. Just in time for Halloween, Noise has been curling up with New Tales to Tell, a tribute album to goth-pop figureheads Love and Rockets...
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Night fell on the Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park this past Sunday under a full moon and over a sea of mud. (It wasn't strictly mud, but more on that in a...
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One night last week, an increasingly rare evening when Houston's musical cupboard was relatively bare, Noise and a friend were talking about fall.
There was a chill in the...
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This column is in no way a mea culpa from the Houston Press to Insect Warfare for what happened at the 2007 HPMA Showcase. But the story is so good it still bears...
