Glorious Noise August 2004

Subterranean Pop

K Records presents excerpts from Subterranean Pop fanzine (1979-82)....

Steve Burns - Songs for Dust Mites

Announcing... Glorious Noise Records

Glorious Noise is starting a label, and to celebrate we're throwing a party at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago on Saturday, August 28 with Two Cow Garage, Riviera, and Quasar Wut-Wut (who will unleash Taro Sound in October).

Gary Young's Hospital - The Grey Album

Album Leaf - On Your Way

"On Your Way" by the Album Leaf from In A Safe Place. Via Fingertips....

For Sale: 3 Tickets to the Underground Garage Fest

Buy a date with Johnny Loftus to Little Steven's Underground Garage Fest in New York City, August 14. Three general admission tickets at $20 each. Johnny gets final say on who gets them - this isn't first come first serve....

The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place

The Handsome Family - Singing Bones

The Go - Hey Ya!

"Hey Ya!" by the Go. Via Motor City Rocks....

Nora O'Connor - Til The Dawn

The Morning News - Roundtable: Mp3 Bloggers

The Morning News talks to six mp3 bloggers about what makes them tick, what problems they face, and what the record companies should do next....

The Martinis - Smitten

How Your Band Can Fire Bush

OK Go has written a nice how-to document for bands that want to get politically active but aren't sure where to start: How Your Band Can Fire Bush (PDF too)....

The Damnwells - Bastards Of The Beat

2004 Teen Choice Awards: Your Guide to the Fetal Position

This year's Teen Choice Awards was filled with love for the "OC" and Lindsay Lohan, arguably, um, the two biggest things in youth culture this year. Johnny Loftus watches bad TV so you don't have to!

Pleasurecraft - Lost Patterns

iPod vs. The Cassette

iPod vs. The Cassette. Guess who wins......

Johnny Cash Auction

Sotheby's is selling a bunch of amazing stuff from the estate of June Carter and Johnny Cash....

Five Fifty - Get Clean

Zeldman remembers Bill Asp

Zeldman eulogizes Bill Asp, promoter of DC punk and new wave bands and founder of Wasp Records....

Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum

Dreamend - as if by ghosts...

Wilco - Spiders (live)

Wilco - "Spiders" (live at the Vic, June 12, 2004). Via Wilcoworld....

Underground Garage Rock Festival, Take 1

Little Steven's Underground Garage Rock Festival was so huge (40 bands over 12 hours), Glorious Noise sent two separate contributors to cover the event. Here's Kristy Eldredge's version.

Underground Garage Rock Festival, Take 2

Little Steven's Underground Garage Rock Festival was so huge (40 bands over 12 hours), Glorious Noise sent two separate contributors to cover the event. Here's Johnny Loftus' version.

Postal Service - "Against All Odds" video

Postal Service - "Against All Odds" (yes, the Phil Collins song) video: Windows Media, hi-fi Real, lo-fi Real. From the Wicker Park soundtrack....

Violet Indiana - Russian Doll

(Un)Perfect Day: Play something we like

What exactly is it that audiences are listening for when they attend concerts? For performers without hits, can the audience ever be satisfied with a set?

Tweaker - 2:00am Wakeup Call

Idle, Eric - The FCC Song

"The FCC Song" by Monty Python's Eric Idle....

Paper Airplane Pilots: It's Hot Tonight

The Paper Airplane Pilots warm a chilly Chicago crowd with some of the tightest power pop to come out of this area since Rick Nielsen donned a five-neck, checkerboard guitar.

Old Enough To Know Better: 15 Years of Merge

Curiosa: Joyfully Gloomy

There was more to the Curiosa Festival than doom and eye-liner, but the Cure still managed to conjure up the traumatic rollercoaster emotions of adolescence.

Mr. David Viner - This Boy Don't Care

Crunk in Public: The 2004 MTV Video Music Awards

Devoid of controversy, its skin covered up, and generally reeking of self-congratulatory bullshit, the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards were a nonstarter of hoobastankian proportions.