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KTRU 91.7 FM FALL 2007 A Rookie’s Guide to the Houston Scene By KTRU Staff two most famous groups: ZZ Top and lificacy, however, has been outmatched Spain Colored Orange, Bring Back the Houston is one of the best-kept secrets Destiny’s Child. by his reclusiveness; despite capturing Guns, and the Dimes, and acts like Mo- of American culture. Though Houston In addition to these superstars, Houston the imagination of three generations of tion Turns It On and Sharks and Sailors artists have made fascinating and diverse also nurtures a thriving underground that music geeks, Jandek has given only two push prog rock into new and exciting ter- contributions to popular music, the city has is little-known outside the city. Its history interviews in his entire life, and did not ritory. Local rock labels are popping up at an unjustified reputation as something of a can traced, roughly, to the Texas psyche- give the first of his still-meager handful of a nearly unprecedented rate, providing a cultural wasteland. Part of that reputation delic movement of the late 60s. Houston live performances until 2004 (in Glasgow, desperately needed foundation for local art- is due to comparison to Houston’s close was home to both the movement’s found- Scotland oddly enough), 26 years after the ists. Meanwhile, extreme heavy metal has neighbor Austin, which for decades was ing record label, International Artists, and start of his “career.” been and continues to be one of Houston’s one of the capitals of American counter- one of its most influential and long-lived The unrestrained imagination of artists specialties, with locals like Braced for culture—part of it is due to a virtually bands, the Red Krayola.
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