Glorious Noise December 2001
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One of the issues regarding music is the degree to which it is calculated. Calculated in dollars and... more dollars. Let's not be naïve. The music industry is an industry like any other. It is about selling goods and services...
By Stephen Macaulay December 3, 2001
According to Wilco's official website, they "have agreed to terms with Nonesuch Records (www.nonesuch.com). More information about all of this next week." I'm not exactly sure what this means, but the people at Pitchfork interpret it to mean "Wilco have...
By Jake Brown December 3, 2001
Before He Was Fab - George Harrison's first American vist. [via MetaFilter]...
By Jake Brown December 3, 2001
Weezer Fight - a very silly Shockwave game....
By Jake Brown December 3, 2001
America loves its football game pep music It's Sunday. Week 11. Fat men in Braveheart facepaint shout oaths and threaten bodily harm at other groups of fat men clad in Braveheart facepaint of a different color and stripe. The roller...
By Johnny Loftus December 3, 2001
The Strokes gear up for phase two The smoke has cleared. After the turbulent months of smothering hype and gushing publicity, The Strokes have emerged largely unscathed. In New York and elsewhere, hipsters in hexagonal eyewear have moved on to...
By Johnny Loftus December 4, 2001
My Britney problem — and yours - a great article about Ms. Spears by Jim DeRogatis....
By Jake Brown December 4, 2001
Early New York Dolls demos - three free MP3s available from ROIR Online, recorded in 1972....
By Jake Brown December 5, 2001
In a recent issue of AutoWeek (11/19/01), GloNo's own sab created a brilliant piece of writing, essaying the Vespa ET4 scooter, which begins, "For all of you Ace Faces who don't fancy grubbing up your trousers tinkering with a fiddly...
By Stephen Macaulay December 7, 2001
Wilco is confirming the story we reported earlier this week. And they've named the release date for YHF. Stayed tuned to Glorious Noise for all your important music news! Hopefully Nonesuch Records, a subsidiary of AOL Time Warner, will be...
By Jake Brown December 9, 2001
The Goldstars at the Edgewater Lounge Saturday, December 8, 2001, Chicago I had been planning on going to the Old Town School of Folk Music too see the Handsome Family. I also could have seen Ryan Adams and Lucinda Williams...
By Jake Brown December 10, 2001
Rediscovering the Velvet Underground Sometimes it's amazing what you find when you dig back into your collection. Forgotten gems of music gathering dust in crates or on CD racks can take you back to specific times in your life or...
By Derek Phillips December 12, 2001
X, Charlie Daniels, The Pixies, Sinead 0'Conner, Slayer... Vanilla Ice? What could these artists possibly have in common? Well, they all had concert posters designed for them by Austinite, Nels Jacobson, many of which are available for purchase....
By Pat La Penna December 13, 2001
More squabbling between members of Nirvana and Courtney love. Can she spell Yoko?...
By Derek Phillips December 13, 2001
Well, it looks like we did it. Another monumental milestone in the history of our little website: 20,000 visitors. We here at Glorious Noise would like to thank you all for stopping by. We'd especially like to thank all of...
By Jake Brown December 14, 2001
Weezer is giving away a buttload of mp3s....
By Jake Brown December 17, 2001
Have You Heard a Good Movie Lately? During this, the holiday season, plenty of people go to the movies. Consequently, you'll find that in the entertainment sections of newspapers there are display ads galore, as each of the film companies...
By Stephen Macaulay December 18, 2001
Don't Steal Music - a great Salon article about how the record companies just don't get it...yet....
By Derek Phillips December 18, 2001
The Glorious Noise Interview with the Handsome Family I recently had the opportunity to interview Rennie Sparks, the lyricist/autoharpist half of the Handsome Family. Check it out!...
By Jake Brown December 19, 2001
THREE MINUTE HERO No Doubt See Ted Nugent in an Airport and Don't Ask Him to Produce Anything Johnny Loftus Rock Steady. Hey, that's a cool-sounding term, man. Are you thinking of Sly & Robbie, Prince Jammy, King Tubby, or...
By Johnny Loftus December 21, 2001
Glorious Noise Interview 10 Questions for Califone's Tim Rutili By Derek Phillips Since the early 90s, Tim Rutili has been crafting his own brand of "rustic pop." From Red Red Meat to his current band, Califone, Rutili has developed a...
By Derek Phillips December 21, 2001
Elsewhere on this site (buried, I believe, somewhere in the "Comments" section) there is a lively debate on whether fundamental concert/show etiquette permits people who are not on stage to sing along with those who are performing on the stage....
By Stephen Macaulay December 24, 2001
Waking Up After The Long Night Called 2001 Year-end lists are disgustingly difficult to write. It's damn hard to remember what happened last February or March when you're still trying to discern how you spent $150 on High Life at...
By Johnny Loftus December 27, 2001
Message to BRMC, The Strokes, The White Stripes, or whoever else wants to lay claim to The Next Big Thing The CD comes courtesy of some guy met in a bar who claims to do something or another for this...
By Jeff Sabatini December 28, 2001
I hope everybody had a merry Christmas and got all the presents you wanted. I got some great stuff including the new CCR box (which is amazing) and Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1999 (which I've been wanting forever). I...
By Jake Brown December 30, 2001
A Public Service Announcement from Glorious Noise Today is when many of us make New Year's resolutions, intentions to change our behaviors for purposes of improvements in the days, weeks, and months to come. A new year engenders the idea...
By Stephen Macaulay December 31, 2001
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