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Glorious Noise September 2006

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Radiohead Photos - V Festival 2006

Andrew Kendall's Radiohead Photos from the V Festival, Stafford, 20th August 2006....

2006 MTV Video Music Awards

Do you miss Johnny Loftus' award show coverage? Get your fix at the Metro Times Music Blahg. J-Lo covered the VMAs for GLONO in 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001....

Rolling Stone - Young and Pious: A Rock & Roll Story

A nice piece in The Stone wherein photojournalist Stephanie Keith goes inside the Christian rock subculture and finds sexy girls, hardcore bands and the strange marriage of rock and rapture....

Dylan Goes Number One

Billboard: "For the first time in 30 years, Bob Dylan tops The Billboard 200 with Modern Times. Not only is it the legendary songwriter's first album to reach the throne since Desire in 1976, it's also his highest debuting album...


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Locate open mp3s with Google!

This handy exploitation of Google lets you search the Web for mp3s of just about anyone. It sounds better than it is though as any dope could do a simple Google search and get the same result. But it’s an...


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GLONO Video with Dirty Pretty Things

Dirty? Check. Pretty? Check…GLONO hosts Dirty Pretty Things for a day in Chicago and gives them an authentic tour of the Windy City with vintage clothes shopping in Wicker Park, hotdogs, and a dip in the great Lake Michigan. Oh, and the band put on a hell of a show...

Mountain Goats - Live At Amoeba

The Mountain Goats Live At Amoeba on August 22, 2006. Part One features "Moon Over Goldsboro" from Get Lonely....


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Lenny Kaye eulogizes the birthplace of New York punk, CBGB

Downer at the Rock and Roll Club by Lenny Kaye: "Lumped together as punk, a sensibility not yet stylized into Ramonic thrum-and-drang and exported to an England skilled at packaging youth subculture, the various bands of CBGB's first generation brought...


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New Of Montreal album, interview

The Fork talks to Kevin Barnes about the new Of Montreal album, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? They're hosting an mp3 of "Suffer for Fashion" too. Previously: Of Montreal: Changing Your Month....


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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Goodbye Earl

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes cover the Dixie Chicks: "Goodbye Earl" from Love Their Country, due October 17 on Fat Wreck Chords. Via punknews....


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The Whigs - Technology

"Technology" by the Whigs from Give 'Em All a Big Fat Lip, which is being reissued by ATO on September 19. Available now on iTunes....


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Portastatic - Sour Shores

"Sour Shores" by Portastatic from Be Still Please, due October 10 on Merge. If you loved Superchunk, you oughta dig this. Plus, hey, Mac McCaughan is blogger!...


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The Black and Orange Ball: GLONO's Fifth Birthday Party

The party of the centuryGlorious Noise is throwing a party, and you're invited. We're celebrating five years in publication and the third release on Glorious Noise Records with a big blowout. October 21 at Martyr's in Chicago with Healthy White Baby, Riviera and Quasar Wut-Wut.

Zune won't play Rhapsody, Napster 2.0 files

Microsoft's Zune won't play protected files purchased from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink, iTunes, or any other online media service. Except emusic, of course, who sells good, old-fashioned unprotected MP3 files. Remember kids: when you purchase files with DRM,...

Letter from the RIAA

From McSweeney's, The Recording Industry Will Destroy You, a letter from the RIAA: "If your household pet has been named in this lawsuit, it will be euthanized. If you are a 13-year-old girl, do not expect that the bad publicity...


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Tom Waits - Bottom of the World

"Bottom of the World" by Tom Waits, from the upcoming box set, Orphans (Anti-). It originally appeared on the soundtrack for the 2003 documentary, Long Gone, which Waits scored. Previously....


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But they all had a good laugh and went back to sleep

MySpace has a fun "Artist on Artist" interview between Fred Armisen and Jeff Tweedy where they talk about naming bands, googlebating, sampling Stravinsky, and Mad Libs!...


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Neil Young's Archives finally start trickling in

Billboard: "Neil Young is finally ready to roll out releases from his long-rumored Archives Performance series. First up is Live at the Fillmore East 1970, due Nov. 14 via Reprise. The album features six as-yet-unannounced selections from Crazy Horse's March...

We Swoon for Zune

Clearly, a revolutionary experience...Actually, we don’t. Not until they send us a review model. Glorious Noise dissects the hype around Microsoft's new MP3 player, and reminds naive blog commenters that air travel is more of a hassle than a bribe.

Stream Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 DVD

Wow. This is pretty great. The hilariously named AOL Music Indie Blog is streaming the new Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 DVD in its entirety. Not sure how long they keep these things up there, so get it while...


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Weezer's Pinkerton: 10 Years Later

Island of the Butterfly and Peninsula of DogWeezer's second album, Pinkerton, was released ten years ago. To celebrate this anniversary, we ordain it as the greatest concept album of the 1990s.

Bring the Noise

A different kind of tension - Johnny Loftus finds meaning in Detroit's noise music scene. "Have you ever seen Ultraman?" he asks with an inquisitive gleam in his eye. He's referring to the classic late 1960s Japanese sci-fi TV show...

American Idol in Chicago

So I was waiting for the hostess at a certain Chinese chain restaurant on Wednesday night in Chicago, and when she finally walked up to greet me she looked a little bewildered. As she was seating us, I heard a...


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