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A new radio station is born this morning. Houston will get its own “Jack” format, a format that has succeeded in other major markets for years. What is “Jack” you say? The idea behind the format is (as radio programmers say) your iPod on shuffle mode. That is, if you iPod only included popular mainstream songs from the 1960’s to present time. The switch will be happening on 103.7 FM at 10:37 a.m. this morning...

Now Playing Houston: The Liberty Hall Poster Show Houston rocks, but back in the day, we really rocked and Liberty Hall was a premiere downtown music venue. From the late sixties to the mid seventies it hosted such artists as Waylon Jennings, Bruce Springsteen, Lightnin' Hopkins, Johnny Winter, Ted Nugent, Gram Parsons, ZZ Top, the Velvet Underground, The Ramones and a pre-gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman. See a collection of posters from this era on...

Remember last week, when rocker Ted Nugent made headlines by performing at Gov. Rick Perry's inaugural ball wearing a Confederate flag T-shirt and brandishing fake machine guns? Yeah, it still puts a smile on our faces, too. Anyway, we halfway expected some half-apologetic statement from Austin about the performance, but no — Perry loved the show, and so did the Nuge. The Chronicle caught up with Nugent by phone yesterday and asked him about the...

Ted Nugent wasn’t the only musician to visit the state capitol last week. Former Supremes member Mary Wilson also played the Gov.’s inaugural ball, but initially came to the state for a more serious purpose — to push the “Truth in Music” bill. The “Truth in Music” bill is aimed to stop cover bands from taking a name of a classic band, unless at least one member of the original group is part of the...

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into...

Good morning, Houston. It's hard to be a politician these days, isn't it? Things go well, things go badly — you just never know. Fortunately, we'll always have one political constant in Texas: Rick Perry's hair. Well, that and the Capitol — but sometimes, y'know, it's hard to tell one dome from another. >> Just what the governor ordered: Gov. Rick Perry is drawing some fire for an inaugural performance by rocker Ted Nugent on...