Glorious Noise September 2002

Home Girls

If Garth Brooks on a zip line with flash pots exploding below his airborne Stetson didn't signal country music's arrival as a mainstream music format, then the 1991 introduction of SoundScan to track Billboard chart activity certainly kicked the storm...

Morality of Downloading

Check out this pawn of the RIAA, and his column that moralizes the music downloading issue. Yep, that dufus is from Utah....

Ded Kitty

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Napster, the revolutionary Internet song-swap service hailed by millions of music fans but damned by the powerful recording industry, officially shut down Tuesday after a U.S. bankruptcy court blocked its final sale to German media giant...

The art whereby Maxim hath made governs the world

In "Rolling Stone remix," appearing in the September 4th edition of the Chicago Sun-Times, media and advertising writer Lewis Lazare comments on the recent decision by the editors of Rolling Stone to re-tool the magazine's look and editorial focus, in...

No. 2 - What Does Good Luck Bring?

Back to the Future

The Recording Industry Association of America catches the 80s retro vibe with an attack on its arch nemesis: technology. And just like last time, it's not only a losing fight but also a misguided philosophy. While the RIAA claims that...

Post-Rock

One of the things that I've long found to be a cause of a bit of pity is the sighting of an ad in the back of a city paper—Detroit's Metro Times or Chicago's Reader or the like—for the various...

Jay Bennett: Sleepless in Chicago

Ex-Wilco guitarist and pal ready acoustic follow-up... Hot on the heels of their debut, The Palace at 4 AM (Part 1), former Wilco guitarist, Jay Bennett, and friend to all, Edward Burch prepare to release an acoustic version of the...

Men Who Look Like Kenny Rogers

Funny, People Magazine tipped us off to this site: men who look like kenny rogers.com....

Find the Cost of Convenience

I hate TicketMaster with an unbridled passion that sometimes scares my friends. I've contemplated all kinds of ways to dethrone the tyrants. But the only way that really makes sense is to just stop going to shows where tickets are...

Spooning on a Sunday Night

Hot freaks, girls with perfect indie style, and T-shirt'd dudes with that 70's hair – it was a raveup at Chicago's Abbey Pub, with Spoon as the main attraction. "Thanks for coming out on a Sunday night like this," main...

Beck - Sea Change

Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates

Aimee Mann - Lost in Space

Bang a Gong, Get It On

When looking around for something to write about, I checked out rollingstone.com, figuring that there might be a hook or a bit of news that would be worth noting on this site. For example, I was pleased to see there...

Interview with the Pee Wee Fist

The Pee Wee Fist was allegedly named after a martial arts movie about a very short ninja. The existence of this film cannot be confirmed at press time, but there is no denying that the band's album, Flying, released last...

Beck's Sea Change

Beck returns with a reflective album showcasing his songwriting skills. This ain't no party, this ain't no disco... Beck's new album hits the shelves on September 24 and from the sounds of it, he's been listening to my 70s Creep...

You Know You're Right leaked

Nirvana's "You Know You're Right" has finally leaked out....

Neurotic Swingers - What's Your Definition of Underground?

Boycott the RIAA!

Boycott the RIAA!...

The End

While I had the good fortune not to have to go to war in Southeast Asia during my teens, some of my friends were not so lucky. (Luck, it should be noted, was involved because there was a lottery system...

Not Trying To Break Anyone's Heart

The film 24 Hour Party People embodies the punk spirit it documents. But before I go into director Michael Winterbottom's freewheeling, go-for-broke filmmaking style, I just want to say the movie's kind of got old-fart appeal, being about the beginnings...

Ben Kweller - Sha Sha

Wedding Music

Two friends of mine recently got married and gave every wedding guest a mix CD they'd burned. The disc is full of songs easily identified with the bride and groom. Some of it is music you might hear at a...

Steve Earle: American Hero

Steve Earle's thoughtful, direct response to criticism over "John Walker Blues" exposes his critics who called him un-American as the reactionary dopes they are....

Ryan Adams - Demolition

Bill O'Reilly vs. Ludacris

Bill O'Reilly vs. Ludacris - Long, but definitely worth your time....

American History X's & O's

Barring a three-hour rockathon/revival starring Bruce Springsteen, featuring all the bells, whistles, and saxophone solos that a hero-starved American public can handle, nothing currently dominates the nation's popular psyche more than The National Football League. Each Sunday in Autumn, enormous...