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ACL Notebook Dump, Pt. 1: Gentrification, Acid, Obama Shirts and More

Mon Sep 29, 1:37 PM

Thursday, Noise requisitioned a standard-size (4X8 inches) reporter's notebook from the Press supply cache. Sunday night, slumping his worn-out ass into the press camp as Foo Fighters took the "Long Road to Ruin," he had more than 60 pages of... More >>

Gillian Welch and Neko Case at ACL Fest: The Return of the Redheads

Mon Sep 29, 1:27 PM

Gillian Welch must have read our earlier post about Friday's redheads, Patty Griffin and Jenny Lewis. She and partner David Rawlings took the theme and ran with it in their cowboy boots. First there was "Red Clay Halo," from their... More >>

Random Thoughts on ACL Fest

Mon Sep 29, 11:55 AM

Sharon Jones, with a little help from a new friend (Dawn Jones-Garcia) The best fan-participation moment came during Sharon Jones’ set, when not one but two different random slobs got onstage to dance with the funky soul siren’s set.... More >>

Yawn: Foo Fighters at ACL Fest

Mon Sep 29, 11:26 AM

Foo Fighters (Dawn Jones-Garcia) I want to like the Foo Fighters, I really do. Since Nirvana, Dave Grohl has always come off as a really likeable guy for a rock megastar with a gift for catchy hooks and big... More >>

Features

  • The Black Keys Doggy-Paddle from Akron to Stardom
    Rubber City Roots
    Thursday, September 25
    It's a skin-singeing 95 degrees in Chicago, but Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney are cooler than a couple of Fonzies in a cryogenic freeze. Their... More >>
  • Welcome to Never Ever Land
    Thursday, September 25
    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.... More >>
  • Kristine Mills: Playing with the Big Boys — Live!
    Thursday, September 25
    Vocalist Kristine Mills is doing something almost no one else in Houston is doing these days: singing jazz. Not watered-down jazz lite, but real,... More >>
  • Metallica: Death Magnetic
    Thursday, September 25
    Metallica didn't commit its biggest sin when it exposed its dirty laundry in gory, self-indulgent detail in the 2003 film Some Kind of Monster.... More >>
  • The Clash: Live at Shea Stadium
    Thursday, September 25
    Ever since the Beatles took over the Shea Stadium pitcher's mound in 1965, rockers like Grand Funk Railroad, the Police and, most recently, Billy... More >>
  • Atmosphere: When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
    Thursday, September 25
    The characters given life by MC Slug on Atmosphere's new album have unenviable situations, but they're not all painting that shit gold (whatever... More >>
  • Jimmy LaFave
    Thursday, September 25
    After all the nights without power, the gas lines and the ice shortages, Jimmy LaFave is a perfect musical palliative. One of the smoothest... More >>
  • Spiritualized
    Thursday, September 25
    Jason Pierce had a rough 2005. Hospitalized and nearly dying, the British musician spent a lot of time tethered to machines and IVs (which... More >>
  • Ben Kweller
    Thursday, September 25
    About this time in 2006, Ben Kweller — Brooklyn's greatest fake classic rocker not counting the Hold Steady — was shoving tampons up... More >>
  • Girl in a Coma
    Thursday, September 25
    For everyone who digs Morrissey's sensitivity but wishes he had a little more sex appeal: Meet Nina Diaz. Occasionally referred to as the "female... More >>
  • Drive-By Truckers, A to Z
    Alabama Ass Whuppin'
    Thursday, September 18
    Houston's Austin City Limits festival spillover season gets underway Wednesday with an overdue visit from Alabama-born, Georgia-dwelling brigands... More >>
  • In Need: Signal to Noise
    Houston experimental-music journal needs a hand
    Thursday, September 18
    Recently, one of Noise's contributors forwarded me an e-mail from Pete Gershon, editor and publisher of Houston-based experimental-music journal... More >>
  • White Swan Runs Red
    The Second Ward hardcore venue got a little too punk last month
    Thursday, September 18
    Every time Road House comes on TV, we watch it no matter what. As a matter of fact, Patrick Swayze has been the subject of more arguments in our... More >>
  • Balaclavas: Inferno
    Thursday, September 18
    "Before me nothing but eternal things / Were made, and I endure eternally." These two lines, inscribed on the gates of Hell in Dante's Inferno,... More >>
  • The Faint: Fasciinatiion
    Thursday, September 18
    Cut Copy and Hercules & Love Affair have been burning up dorm-room dance floors. Then there's the rise of the more richly histrionic LCD... More >>
  • Juliana Hatfield: How to Walk Away
    Thursday, September 18
    Solo or with one of her bands (Blake Babies, Juliana Hatfield Three), Juliana Hatfield's moody MOR jangle-and-coo always anticipated an... More >>
  • Irma Thomas: Simply Grand
    Thursday, September 18
    File Irma Thomas's new Simply Grand under "Why didn't I think of this?" Pair the New Orleans vocal icon/national treasure with great pianists and... More >>
  • The Queers
    Thursday, September 18
    The Buzzcocks and Ramones may have laid the groundwork for pop-punk, but the Queers helped make sure the genre would never grow up. After 25... More >>
  • These Are Powers
    Thursday, September 18
    There are certain sonic signatures within Chicago and Brooklyn's prevailing indie scenes that collide oh so colorfully in These Are Powers, a... More >>
  • The New Year
    Thursday, September 18
    A band taking four years between recordings is cause for both anticipation and dread, and on The New Year's The New Year, the results bring equal... More >>

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Rollins Brand

Rock 'n' roll maverick Henry Rollins talks politics and the upcoming election
It's something of an understatement to say that Henry Rollins is one of the hardest-working men... More >>

Dallas

Spencer Krug Lends Wolf Parade, Swan Lake and Sunset Rubdown A Unique Voice

As a singer for collaborative bands Wolf Parade and Swan Lake, as well as his own project,... More >>

Denver

Ponytail: Baltimore's happy accident

Ponytail didn't come together like most bands. The original five members were randomly chosen... More >>

Kansas City

Amy Millan discusses life as a solo artist, as a Broken Social Scenester and as a spouse of Stars

"14 Forever," by Stars, from Sad Robots (self-released): "When you're on the road all the time,... More >>

Miami

Kendall Band I Set My Friends on Fire Makes It Big the MySpace Way

A full-length album, a national tour, and hordes of moshing fans.
After the third time MySpace deleted their band's page, Matt Mihana, then age 17, and Nabil... More >>

Phoenix

When Gogol Bordello Takes the Stage, Expect a Cultural Rebellion and One Hell of a Party

As a Croatian-American electro-funk DJ with a powerful thirst for liquor and trouble, I knew... More >>

San Francisco

Kim Gordon continues a New York tradition

Kim Gordon personifies New York cool so completely that fans often forget she is a Los Angeles... More >>

Seattle

Q&A;: Mickey Hart

The drummer’s tireless devotion to world percussion proves there’s life after the Dead.
Like Peter Gabriel or David Byrne, Mickey Hart is one of the most important contemporary... More >>

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