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ON WITH THE SHOW Wisconsin's Walworth County Board has voted 5-0 in favor of "Terrapin Station: A Grateful Dead Family Reunion," which they had originally shit-canned. Read about their decision here....
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Glorious Noise July 2002« June 2002 | Archives | August 2002 » COOL CHANGECOOL CHANGE New material from The Flaming Lips Johnny Loftus Weirdness ensues. The Flaming Lips are back July 16th with Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, an album that's better than a hundred others that will come out this year, if... Quenching SenseQuenching Sense While shopping at a local Meijer's, I encountered a Pepsi display that was centered on not the beverage in its multitudinous variants, but a potentially life-sized cardboard cutout of Britney Spears. ("Potentially" because I'm not certain whether the... Jucifer: It's Dark And Hell Is LoudJucifer makes music like the last rockers on Earth I can't hear this article. Jucifer bought the rights to my cochlear nerve last night, when they switched on 13 jury-rigged amplifiers and hit a power chord. "MARSHALLS CHANGED ROCK AND... Advertisement
Almost FamousAlmost Famous Inspired, in part, by the fact that today (as in the day this is being written) is the quintessential American holiday, I went out and bought (as shopping is one of our civic virtues) a copy of a... Why No Mono?Why No Mono? In Daniel Pinkwater's The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death (Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard, 1982)* there is a character who's something of a p-rock chick, named Rat. Rat is a music freak; she has a kick... Nick Drake TributeNick Drake Tribute New York City, June 19, 2002 I felt awful the night of the Nick Drake tribute. I was in one of those "spirals." Walking up Lafayette St. to the Fez, I was visited by a reliable stableful... DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGERIt might be time to take your knee off Oasis' chest. Johnny Loftus How dare they? After eight years, four studio albums, and a pile of piss, coke, and tabloid grandstanding larger than all the icebergs in Greenland, Oasis STILL... Michael Jackson vs. Willie DWho but John Darnielle could link Michael Jackson's latest tantrum to Willie D's pre-Geto Boys album?... Adios, CarlosAdios, Carlos While Carlos Santana garnered a whole new category of listeners thanks to the exceedingly popular Supernatural recording of 1999, we've got to think that it may be over for him, once again. This prediction is based on the... THE SAME OLD CRACKSTHE SAME OLD CRACKS Rock's latest youth movement finds a friend in Emo Johnny Loftus Where do all the Britney fans go when the lip gloss wears off? What happens to young consumers – already used to buying CDs and... Jaguaro vs. the Rock CanonJaguaro.org presents One Hundred Albums You Should Remove from Your Collection Immediately.... Stand and Be HonestI picked up an interesting though ultimately disappointing bargain book the other day: Stand and Be Counted, by—get this—David Crosby. Yes, hard to believe the man whose first solo album was called If I Could Only Remember My Name actually... Beginnings & LeavingsBeginnings & Leavings One of the things that we've talked about here at GloNo is coming up with a list of lines from songs that each of us likes for whatever reason. Which got me to think about songs that... BEARD-SCRATCHERS, KEEP OUT!BEARD-SCRATCHERS, KEEP OUT! Hot times with Mum in the city Empty Bottle, Chicago, 7/18 Johnny Loftus By the time Mum took the stage at Chicago's Empty Bottle this past Thursday, the backs of the necks of 300 hipsters were... Lyrics Born: Writing to Reach YouAs Stephen Macaulay's article below ("Beginnings and Leavings," 7/21) makes clear, we all have a personal relationship with rock and roll lyrics. It doesn't matter if you're an elitist music snob, Nicolas Cage, or the mayor of Santiago, Chile –... Swizzle-Stick vs. PitchforkSwizzle-Stick is ready to give Pitchfork a run for its money with daily music news and reviews.... Ozzy: That's the Way It Wasn'tYou remember Winston Smith, don't you? Sure, he's the protagonist of George Orwell's 1984, but do you remember what he did for a living? He worked in the so-called "Ministry of Truth," changing history by rewriting newspapers and books and... |
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