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Glorious Noise August 2003

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Madison Avenue Groove

"If Britney manages to have as long and successful of a career as Madonna, I will renounce Ms. Ciccone as my Supreme Woman and no longer think about her when I masturbate. Yeah, that would be harder than quitting smoking"—...

Lisa Marie Presley: Won't Smile Pretty, Won't Play Nice

One morning a few months ago, I flipped on the TV and was caught by the image of a woman who looked incredibly tough and mean. Demuting to learn why this contemptuous vixen was being featured on morning TV, I...

Your Golden Ass

Beauty and Journalism and Bono Makes Three From the dead post vaults. Originally filed, December 5, 2002. I’m on assignment. We needed someone to cover Bono’s visit to Chicago and couldn’t convince anyone else to do it so it’s down...

Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches

Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches

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2003 Teen Choice Awards: Cool Like That?

It was really only a matter of time. In a music-hungry ad landscape that licenses Smashmouth's "You Are My Number One" the very WEEK the band's latest effort is released, wasn't it inevitable that Digable Planets' finger-popping 1993 single "Cool...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

The Libertines: Wet Work

The Libertines with the Living Things Empty Bottle, Chicago, August 10, 2003 In their native England, the Libertines are top. With the NME already mad for the young lads' herky-jerky jumble of Clashing Buzzcockian modternative, things got even better when...

Golden Smog: In A Barroom, Patrons Singing...

Samorama is the reigning queen of all things Tweedy. She's seen more Wilco and Tweedy-related shows than you ever thought happened. Here, Glorious Noise presents her account of the much ballyhooed Golden Smog reunion last week in Minneapolis. These tickest...

Cash's American Outtakes Unearthed

Johnny Cash to release 5-disc collection of outtakes from his American recordings! Wow....


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Meeting with the Boss

It’s that moment many music fans dream of. Loose talk around beers usually bring out unlikely scenarios, but sometimes you actually come face-to-face with your heroes. Is it ever how you imagined it would be? Some fall to pieces when...

Crime and Judy - Vendetta Chants

Crime and Judy - Vendetta Chants

Some Girls - Necessito

Some Girls - Necessito. Juliana Hatfield's new band. Updated 8/19/2008: Fixed the link thanks to the Wayback Machine....


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Dylan Titles Get Sonic Upgrade

15 remastered Dylan SACD hybrids coming in September....


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Jack Logan Singles Club

Jack Logan has recorded some of the best songs ever written, and many of them were released on his two-disc debut, Bulk, in 1994. The legend is that Logan was a swimming pool motor mechanic/comic book artist living in Georgia...

Sympathy for the Remix

Ubiquitious production crew The Neptunes have remixed The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil." (Watch and hear it here.) Save your outrage, puritans. Of course no one needed to hear a remix of one of rock's most perfect songs. But...

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own

I Can't Believe It's Not Authentic

What do George Clinton, LeAnn Rimes, Tracy Chapman, Third Eye Blind, Bennett Cohen, and Jerry Greenfield all have in common? Apparently not one hell of a lot. At least, that could be the interpretation drawn from the cancellation of the...

Stars - Heart

Stars - Heart

Ted Nugent is a Mad Man

Ted Nugent has been suing venues lately for cancelling his scheduled shows because of "derogatory racial remarks" he allegedly made during a May 5 radio interview with some dumb morning show in Denver. We at Glorious Noise thought this would...

How to make great-sounding MP3s

How to make great-sounding MP3s....


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The White Mouse Has Escaped!

History and Revisionist Reality at the 2003 VMAs What's that flinty taste in our mouth? Why, it's the unforgiving barrel of the Mossberg 12 gauge jammed between our teeth. The shooter's face is distorted – garish, hyper-real images flicker unabated...

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