Glorious Noise October 2001
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GloNo Radio Switches Formats, Merges with Clear Channel Okay, that's a lie. We don't have anything to do with the Great Radio Satan. But we did dump a bunch of tracks from our playlist, most of which happened to be...
By Jeff Sabatini October 2, 2001
ON THE CATWALK, BABY Further Probing the Link Between Fashion and Rock — Is Fashion Only Clothes Deep? Johnny Loftus Recently on Glorious Noise, in an article discussing Hollywood's propensity to favor the underdog as the perfect paramour for the...
By Johnny Loftus October 2, 2001
The David Caruso Factor The Beatles are a sterling example of the concept that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It came as something of a surprise to me—a pleasant surprise, I must say—that there was...
By Stephen Macaulay October 6, 2001
Love: American Style Glorious Noise is happy to introduce a new member to the team. Kristy Eldredge is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her new feature article reports from New York on her finding true love in the arms of...
By Derek Phillips October 8, 2001
The Strokes Blow Up The Spot (And That's No Hype!) On Friday night at Metro, the Strokes ran every route in the rookie rock star playbook. They played the waiting game with their sold out crowd, booked an impossibly shitty...
By Johnny Loftus October 8, 2001
Since they no longer play videos on MTV (old news, I know), we must turn to the Web to get our fix that used to at least be satisfied by 120 Minutes. For a while there, I used to tape...
By Jake Brown October 12, 2001
The Ear of the Beholder For reasons too tedious to contemplate and therefore innumerate, I use MSN to connect to the Internet. As a result, when I long in I get to a horribly inane interface and the MSN homepage....
By Stephen Macaulay October 12, 2001
Your Mother Wears Combat Boots Punk rock gives birth to a whole new generation...literally. By Phil Wise Like any era, scene, phase, what-have-you, punk rock has grown into something much bigger than the dirty architects imagined in their puke drenched...
By Derek Phillips October 15, 2001
More Glorious Noise Radio Updates It's been a couple of weeks since the last playlist update, so we swapped in ten new songs hand picked by Glorious Noise contributor Johnny. The new stuff includes tracks by the Rolling Stones, Jim...
By Jake Brown October 17, 2001
There's a new web site for the unfinished, unfinanced, unreleased documentary film based on the recording of Wilco's unreleased fourth album. The album, of course, is Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The film is called "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart."...
By Jake Brown October 17, 2001
BEAUTY, PT. II Jenny Toomey at Schubas, Chicago, 10/16/01 It was a regular independent music hoedown inside Schubas music room Tuesday night, as Jenny Toomey brought her solo act to Chicago, building out from her indie rock roots with a...
By Johnny Loftus October 17, 2001
Wilco Worries I saw Wilco play on Oct. 5. Or perhaps I should say I saw Jeff Tweedy play with his backing band for the first time. Either way, what I saw was not the same group I'd seen over...
By Jeff Sabatini October 18, 2001
Note to the Government Hacks who have been sniffing around GLONO: Buzz Off!...
By Derek Phillips October 22, 2001
Give till it hurts Rock stars unite for 9-11 attacks, but does anyone care? By Phil Wise With all the madness surrounding the September 11 attacks, people feel as though they should do something—anything to help. The incredible outpouring has...
By Derek Phillips October 23, 2001
The Culture War I am amused by the recently oft-mentioned notion that we can "win" the war on Afghanistan, err. . . terrorism, by bombarding "them" with DVD players and Britney Spears CDs. You know you've heard it, this ridiculousness...
By Jeff Sabatini October 24, 2001
Some of you may note that the headline above combines the two headlines directly below this with—what else—but a reference to none other than Sting. As I've previously mentioned, I happen to use MSN for Internet access, and when I...
By Stephen Macaulay October 25, 2001
Glenn Kotche and Guest at Chicago's Hideout Inn As a kid, I never had much appreciation for abstract art. It seemed like just a lot of lines and splotches of color on canvass, or twisted metal and broken glass trying...
By Derek Phillips October 28, 2001
Despite his nauseous run as the nervously glowering host of "America's Funniest Home Videos," and whatever you think of those rumors that his standup act is actually really funny, it's safe to say that Bob Saget has officially made a...
By Johnny Loftus October 29, 2001
KEEP ON ROCKIN' IN THE CAPITALIST WORLD Corporate Posturing On a Grand Scale, And Michelle Branch Just Smiles Through It All By Johnny Loftus There is no question in my mind that the Popstar gravy train, so brazen for the...
By Johnny Loftus October 31, 2001
Chuck Barris, Scott Baio and the Village People The Scariest Halloween Costumes Ever At Glorious Noise, we're always decked out in orange and black, so it's like Halloween 365 days a year. And strangely, people ask us all the time...
By Pat La Penna October 31, 2001
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