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Glorious Noise February 2003

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Willie McCool

Space shuttle pilot Willie McCool was a huge Weezer fan....


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RAucklandRoll: D4

D4 with the Forty-Fives at the Magic Stick, Detroit City January 30, 2002 D4 mouthpiece and guitarist Jimmy Christmas is fond of saying that people come out to his band’s shows because they never know just what will happen. Which...

Mark Eitzel: Invisible Hero

Knitting Factory, New York January 23, 2003 The other night I thought of “Nightclub Jitters” by Paul Westerberg. I had them, those jitters, when I went to see Mark Eitzel. I was nervous to see people I knew, nervous in...

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Protect your digital fair use rights....


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The Minus Five - Down With Wilco

The Minus Five - Down With Wilco

Please, For the Love of God, Let it Be

Paul and Yoko duke it out once more, but for what? So what’s the big stink? Paul wants to switch the order of names on the songs he mainly wrote. Who cares? Apperently, Yoko. Though I tend to see it...

Terrible Twos: Happy Birthday to Us!

We live in a zoo. We look like a monkey. And we smell like one too. Believe it or not, it's been two years since we posted the first posts to Glorious Noise. Last year, we rang in our birthday...

Flyin'... Across the Ocean

Let’s face it. Things have been pretty disturbing of late. There was the awfulness of the Columbia horror. We have been on the precipice of war for some time now, and it seems as though each day brings us millimeters...

Liars - They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top

Liars - They Threw Us All In A Trench

Rebecca Pearcy - Constellation

Rebecca Pearcy - Constellation

Be a recording star!

You too can be a recording star (if you send obscene lyrics and suicide notes through the mail)....

Garlic - The Murky World of Seats

Garlic - The Murky World of Seats

2002 Pazz and Jop

Village Voice's 2002 Pazz & Jop. And Christgau's still a weenie....

Chicks Rock: No Shit, Sherlock

A friend of mine, knowing my interest in both music and academia, forwarded an announcement of a Midwestern conference titled “Chicks Rock: Women in the Face of Rock and Roll.” My first thought was: oh boy, how obsolete can you...

Sweet Soul Music: Daryl Hall & John Oates Do It For Love

The accepted history goes that the Blues gave birth to Rock and Roll. But what isn’t as often noted is that there is another sibling of the Blues, which is Soul. For those who (1) aren’t from Detroit or Philadelphia...

Hall and Oates - Do It For Love

Daryl Hall and John Oates - Do It For Love

The Long and Short of It

Metal Sludge's Long & Short of It - groupies kiss and tell. Link updated 2/17/2010 thanks to the Wayback Machine....


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Louder Than Love: The Witches and EsQuire

The Witches and EsQuire at the Lager House, Detroit February 14, 2003 There was something more than a little bit incongruous about the dilapidated hep of Detroit’s Lager House being swathed in pink ribbons and balloons for a ‘Valentine’s Day...

Play It Backwards

Play it backwards and smoke marijuana with Satan....


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You're No Rock and Roll Fun

Sleater-Kinney Majestic Theater, Detroit, February 19, 2003 As Sleater-Kinney has matured from riot-punk youth rebellion to being the shock troops for intelligent Pacific Northwest punk rock music, the larger media cognoscenti (i.e., geeks like Rolling Stone) have recognized not only...

Just Tragic: Rhode Island Great White Disaster

Like a sick version of VH1's Where Are They Now, AP is reporting that at least 39 people died [Update: 54 65 96 dead] last night after a fire broke out at a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode...

Syd Straw, You Are My Queen

Syd Straw's Heartwreck Show Mercury Lounge, New York, February 14, 2003 I didn't know Syd Straw’s work or much about her when I went to see her Valentine's Day Heartwreck show. All I knew was that she had a cool...

Don't Know Why - The 2003 Grammys

The Glorious Noise compound was alive with laughter after the 45th Annual Grammy Awards concluded last Sunday night. Sure, this year's show featured numerous artists who made the big decision to actually sing, which is a real milestone, since it...

Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking

It was Wordsworth, I seem to recall, who suggested that we all start out as radicals and end up as conservatives. This notion came to mind as a result of a comment that was made by GloNo’s sab with regard...

A good article about Michael Jackson

Finally. Something intelligent written about Michael Jackson....


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