Houston Noise Bands

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Over the past 35 years, Houston, TX has become one of the worlds leading centers for a particular brand of dark experimental music, ranging from psych-rock to industrial to distorted stripped down folk songs, to dance party mayhem, but all sharing a similar aesthetic sensibility rooted in dissonance and a flippant attitude towards sonic clarity and technical virtuosity. Together these groups fall under the heading of Houston Noise.

1 Band Listing (by decade of founding)
- 1.1 1960s
- 1.2 1970s
- 1.3 1980s
- 1.4 1990s
- 1.5 2000s
2 Sociological Considerations
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Band Listing (by decade of founding)

[edit] 1990s

Charalambides, Dry Nod, Sad Pygmy, the Vulgarians, Philip Gayle, Klak, Southern Lights, Dave Dove, Paul Winstanley, Rotten Piece, the Linus Pauling Quartet, DJ Screw, the Mike Gunn, Voice of Eye, Infant Mortality Rate, A Pink Cloud, Plumbers of Yoni

[edit] 2000s

The Wiggins, Indian Jewelry, Swarm of Angels, Rua Minx, Dead Roses, the Krinkles, Jana Hunter, :::Kai/ros:::, the Sugarbeats, Wicked Poseur, Slord, Inoculist, ATCAT, the Entertainment System, Muzak, Concrete Violin, Maria Chavez, T.E.F., Astrogenic Hallucinauting, The Defenestration Unit, the Last Bastions, EtherResearchTherapy, Tinfoil, Discordian Popes, Chiasma, Rotten Piece

[edit] Sociological Considerations

Is it something in the water? Everything from groundwater contamination to Enron has been blamed for the proliferation of caustic sonic discharge coming from this Gulf city. One contributing factor has been KTRU-FM, the 50,000-watt station founded and operated by Rice University students whose "eclectic and progressive programming" has historically included psych and noise from around the world with a special focus on the Houston scene. Still, geography comes in to play when people attempt to explain the heterogeneous mixture of psych with every musical genre under the sun that makes the Houston sound.

An article about the Linus Pauling Quartet gives one reference to this Houston sound. "I don't know if it's a Houston curse or a Houston blessing, but [like a lot of local bands] they're not enough of one thing, they're a little bit different, they're a little bit off," says Sound Exchange owner-manager Kurt Brennan, who has released some of their material in the past on his Fleece label.^[1]