Glorious Noise January 2004

Fire Theft - Chain

Chain by the Fire Theft via Sunny Day Real Estate. By way of Fingertips....

Apple's Musical Developments

Glorious Noise's resident Mac-evangelist, Joshua Rogers, weighs in on the new stuff coming up from Steve Jobs' keynote address at Macworld.

The OC: Cali is where they put they mack down

"The OC" returns to the airwaves tonight after a holiday layoff. Those arch richies in Rooney will guest star. Johnny Loftus tunes in.

Westerberg, Paul - Dirty Diesel

Paul Westerberg - Dirty Diesel via Vagrant. By way of Fingertips....

Elliott Smith's Coroner Report

Elliott Smith's Coroner Report from the Smoking Gun. This is personal, sensitive info. Not for the faint of heart....

Levi Strauss closes last two U.S. plants

Levi Strauss closes last two U.S. plants. Sad news for rock and roll fashion. Somebody tell the MC5's Wayne Kramer....

Beyond the Music.

Stephen Macaulay examines the layerless vapidity in a week of programming on VH1, which—in an alternate reality—stood for Video Hits One.

Grand Royal Auctioned

Grand Royal Records is up for auction. Our birthday is coming up if someone would like to buy it for us....

Von Who?

Von Who? How a violent hodrod pinstriper's name got co-opted by the booboisie. "If [Von Dutch] was alive, he'd walk in there with a pistol and shoot those people."...

Decemberists - The Soldiering Life

Decemberists - The Soldiering Life via Kill Rock Stars. By way of Fingertips....

Punk Rock Died When the First Kid Said, Punk's Not Dead

The spirit of punk looms large over Peops, an oral history of nonconformists who've avoided mainstream respectability and generally refused to exchange spontaneity for a solid income.

TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun

TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun via Insound. By way of Fingertips....

Various Artists - The Amos House Collection, Volume III

White Stripes To Play Grammys

White Stripes to Play the Grammys....

Wilco Books

Greg Kot's Wilco book, Learning How to Die, is due in June, 2004, preceded by Jeff Tweedy's book of poetry, Adult Head, in March....

Radio Saviors

Two college radio Music Directors trudge through endless CDRs, sleazy promoters, and an indifferent student body to deliver one of the last, best radio stations in America.

Atmosphere - Seven's Travels

Campbell, Isobel - Amorino

Isobel Campbell - Amorino via Insound. By way of Fingertips....

Jay-Z and The Beatles team up!

An interesting use of sampling. Jay-Z's Black Album has been mixed with The Beatles' White Album to create the "art project/experiment," The Grey Album....

Punk Rockers Invade Iowa

Punks Invade Iowa - Wayne Kramer gets out the vote: "The fundamentalists are coming! Wake up, you motherfuckers!"...

Jason Molina - Pyramid Electric Company

Starsailor: Enjoy the Silence (or Capitol will kill you)

Can Capitol's cash make Starsailor a mainstream creature in Coldplay's image, whether singer James Walsh and his mates like it or not? Johnny Loftus catches Starsailor in Detroit.

Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio

Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio via Rolling Stone. By way of Fingertips....

Audio Outsend - ...Or Does it Explode?

Morpheus 4

Morpheus 4 is here and legal. "The only American file-sharing software ruled legal by a U.S. federal court."...

When You Rock, Rock. When You Vote, Vote.

As the election season is now on us like a barrel of famished leaches, Stephen Macaulay takes a look at the outfit that is ostensibly meant to get the youth of America off the streets and into the voting booths: Rock the Vote.

Rocky Votolato - Suicide Medicine and The Light and Sound

My Morning Jacket loses two members

Two members of My Morning Jacket jacket quit the band....

Great day for customer service

RIAA sues 532 more music fans. CD-Wow forced by the British music industry to raise their prices. What a great day for customer service!...

Cutler, Mark - Wrecking Ball

Mark Cutler - Wrecking Ball via projo.com. By way of Fingertips....

Garfunkel Charged With Pot Possession

Art Garfunkel busted for marijuana possession. While we're at it, please free Tommy Chong, who was put in prison for selling pipes....

The Real History of The Source

The Real History of The Source - Part One. "The Source is lying to readers about its own history in every single issue, by listing Raymond 'Benzino' Scott as a co-founder of the magazine alongside David Mays."...

Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State

More Bands Selling Live Shows

More bands are selling their live shows. Is this going to kill the trading community? Nobody actually buys bootlegs anymore, do they?...

Descendents - Nothing With You

The Descendents - Nothing With You via Fat Wreck Chords. By way of Punk News....

Kurt Cobain Interview

Ten years ago, Kurt Cobain gave this very revealing Rolling Stone interview. A few months later, he was dead. Ten years? Wow....

Weezer Blue Album Deluxe Edition tracklisting

Weezer's Blue Album Deluxe Edition tracklisting announced....

Freebird: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore

What is the origin of yelling "Freebird" at concerts? Derek Phillips explores why the culprits keep it up and whether there is anything we, the good people of rock and roll, can do about it.

Lord, Mary Lou - I Don't Want To Get Over You

Mary Lou Lord - I Don't Want To Get Over You via Rubric Records....

Valley of the Giants - Valley of the Giants

Leroy Bach No Longer in Wilco

Wilco has announced that "Leroy Bach has decided to leave the band."...

Strummer, Joe & the Mescaleros - Coma Girl

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Coma Girl via Epitaph. By way of Fingertips....

Califone - Heron King Blues

Pepsi/Apple ad

"I was one of the kids prosecuted for downloading music," says a teenager. She was not, though, 'prosecuted' for anything. She'd never been in a court. The new Pepsi/Apple ad is "slam-dunk libel" against these kids. Via Techdirt....