Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Since the 1970s Houston TX has become one of the world’s 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.[citation needed]