Glorious Noise August 2008
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Irrefutable new evidence proves that Elvis Presley has been the King for a lot longer than conventionally believed. Are you Roman tonight? Statue of 'Elvis' chiselled 1800 years before his birth goes under the hammer: With his dashing chiselled features,...
By Jake Brown August 1, 2008
If a festival is going to be "Delivered by AT&T," I should be able to get goddamn cell phone service for my AT&T phone when I'm there. At least once in a while. Boo....
By Jake Brown August 1, 2008
From the new album, The Globe, by The Silent Years due out on August 12th. MP3: The Silent Years - Black Hole VIDEO: The Silent Years - Someone to Keep Us Warm ...
By Derek Phillips August 5, 2008
These free, full album streams are available from AOL's Spinner through Sunday, August 10, so listen while you can. Try before you buy. • Conor Oberst, 'Conor Oberst' • The Walkmen, 'You & Me' • Elvis Presley, 'The Complete '68...
By Jake Brown August 5, 2008
After attending two big music festivals every summer since 2005, it's easy to feel burned out and unmotivated. But you can still have a great time if you just turn off your grouchiness, relax, and float downstream. A mind-blowing headliner helps, too.
By Jake Brown August 6, 2008
MP3: Of Montreal - "Id Engager" (alt link), the first single from Skeletal Lamping, due October 7. Not quite the radical departure that Kevin Barnes promised. Oh well, sounds good. MP3s courtesy of Spin and Polyvinyl. Via of Montreal's MySpace...
By Jake Brown August 6, 2008
Episode two of GLONO's favorite show peels back more layers and exposes the characters as nearly formed people. Somewhere Harper Lee is smiling.
By Derek Phillips August 7, 2008
MP3: Locksley - "All Over Again" from Don't Make Me Wait, originally released in 2007 and reissued with bonus tracks on Feature Records on September 9, 2008. Sounds a bit like The Go. Locksley: Web, MySpace, eMusic. ...
By Jake Brown August 7, 2008
Get your Friday Facial from Glorious Noise in the ongoing series, Faces Don't Lie: Expressive Record Reviews with Dylan Burr.
By Jake Brown August 8, 2008
Mark E. Smith returns with yet another line-up and an even more impressive offering.
By Todd Totale August 11, 2008
MP3: Jeff Hanson - "If Only I Knew" from Madam Owl, due August 19 on Kill Rock Stars. For fans of falsetto Sufjan Stevens and the prettiest Elliott Smith songs. With more banjo! KRS signed him after he sent them...
By Jake Brown August 11, 2008
The New York Times has discovered that Kanye West is a blogger: A gangster with a Mac-10 clearly beats a blogger with a MacBook — but only man to man, and only in the neighborhood. What if the goal is...
By Jake Brown August 11, 2008
Rolling Stone magazine is switching to a smaller, rack-friendly size. This is certainly not the first time the Stone has changed its format. It started out with a double-folded newspaper style similar many current local alt-weeklies (which is pretty...
By Jake Brown August 11, 2008
Has Draper finally met his match in the hard-nosed wife/manager of a celebrity insult artist? Let's just say it's a shocker.
By Derek Phillips August 12, 2008
I don’t care what anyone says, I miss Jay Bennett in Wilco. The albums produced by that band during his tenure remain some of my favorites by any artist and the albums released since his departure just don’t ring the...
By Derek Phillips August 12, 2008
These free, full album streams are available from AOL and Spinner through Sunday, August 17, so listen while you can. Try before you buy. • The Walkmen, 'You & Me' • Jonas Brothers, 'A Little Bit Longer' • Pierre de...
By Jake Brown August 12, 2008
In sickness and in health, in good albums and in terrible compilations of bad hair bands... What to do if the person you married has lousy taste in music?
By Todd Totale August 13, 2008
Over on MSNBC, Tony Sclafani argues that Madonna has surpassed the Beatles in regards to her influence on pop music. It’s Madonna’s impact on the course of pop music that bests the Fab Four, not her sociological importance, songwriting skills...
By Jake Brown August 13, 2008
Video: Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - "Souled Out!!!" Directed by Alan Tanner. From Conor Oberst, out now on Merge. Conor Oberst: Web, MySpace, Wiki, eMusic. ...
By Jake Brown August 13, 2008
Doh! Guess what happens when a major label honcho sells a quarter of his stake in his company? Well, the stock tumbles more than 10%, of course. [Warner Music Group's top U.S. executive for recorded music, Lyor Cohen] sold 800,000...
By Jake Brown August 13, 2008
Two DVD releases give insight into the dark legend of one of alternative music's cornerstones.
By Derek Phillips August 14, 2008
Just wanted to let everybody know that our man AMP has uploaded a ton more of his Lollapalpooza pics. And just for fun, he compiled the best of the bunch into a cool little video.
By Jake Brown August 14, 2008
The Dandies have released two videos in advance of the release of ...Earth To The Dandy Warhols... on August 19 (Beat The World Records). Video: Dandy Warhols - "Mission Control" Video: Dandy Warhols - "The Legend Of The Last Of...
By Jake Brown August 14, 2008
Get your Friday Facial from Glorious Noise in the ongoing series, Faces Don't Lie: Expressive Record Reviews with Dylan Burr.
By Derek Phillips August 15, 2008
Almost four years after we launched Glorious Noise Records in order to release Quasar Wut-Wut's album, Taro Sound, the album is finally available for download at eMusic. So if you don't already own it (for shame!), now's your chance...
By Jake Brown August 15, 2008
Official streams of the new Oasis single: "Shock of the Lightning" (Windows, QT), from Dig Out Your Soul, due October 7 on Big Brother/Warner Brothers. Sounds a lot like something from 1997’s Be Here Now, which I guess is a...
By Derek Phillips August 15, 2008
Just enough grit to cater to retropolitans and enough panache to appeal to young urban hipsters.
By Todd Totale August 18, 2008
Ice Cube talks to MTV.com about his new album and going indie: "Going independent in 2006 really re-energized me. It rejuvenated me [and] my feelings for the game," he said. "Being on [major] record labels is for the birds. It...
By Jake Brown August 18, 2008
Were you curious why the Paul Westerberg album 49:00 was only 43 minutes, 55 seconds long? Wonder whatever happened to the other five minutes and five seconds? Well, TuneCore has it for you: Paul Westerberg - 5:05. Oddly, the new...
By Jake Brown August 18, 2008
The Washington Post looks at webcaster Pandora's imminent demise in spite of its popularity ("about 1 million listeners daily" and "40,000 new customers a day"): Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its 'Last Stand'. Thanks to the music inudstry's lobbyists, web...
By Jake Brown August 18, 2008
We chat with the guy who invented Wack-a-Mole and the Showbiz Pizza robots. Watch Fatz Geronimo, Billy Bob Brockali, and the gang cover some Arcade Fire!
By Jake Brown August 19, 2008
GQ's Alex Pappademas offers highlights of his two-hour, 11,000 word interview with the former lead singer of Journey. Foolish, Foolish Throat: A Q&A with Steve Perry: I live just above San Diego, in Del Mar. And occasionally when I get...
By Jake Brown August 19, 2008
These free, full album streams are available from AOL and Spinner through Sunday, August 24, so listen while you can. Try before you buy. • Glen Campbell, 'Meet Glen Campbell' • Juliana Hatfield, 'How to Walk Away' • The Walkmen,...
By Jake Brown August 19, 2008
A fine slice of Americana that wistfully refrains that old-school country found on pre-transistor radios tuned in to the AM drift of weekly Grand Ole Opry broadcasts.
By Todd Totale August 20, 2008
Internet music guru Ian Rogers challenges the hit-making aspirations of the traditional music industry in his latest post on FISTFULAYEN: Does The New Business Of Music Change The Way Music Sounds? I was on a panel at Bandwith Conference last...
By Jake Brown August 20, 2008
Stream the new Verve album via MySpace now. My main concern with this album was that it would be closer to Richard Ashcroft's solo material, which has been steadily leaning more and more puss rock, than to the guitar heavy...
By Derek Phillips August 20, 2008
Worthy black metal built on a foundation of ginormous guitar swells that would make Kevin Shields' knees buckle.
By Todd Totale August 21, 2008
MP3: Arabian Prince - "Let's Hit the Beach" from Innovative Life, a collection of electro-rap recorded between 1984 and 1989, out now on Stones Throw Records. Arabian Prince worked with the World Class Wreckin Cru along with Dr. Dre and...
By Jake Brown August 21, 2008
MP3: Simon Joyner - "Javelin" from The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll, out now....
By Jake Brown August 21, 2008
Chilly atmospherics, appropriate synth work, seemingly traditional indigenous chanting, and a recreation of ceremonial instrumentation. And a statement on the state of crass consumerism.
By Todd Totale August 25, 2008
MP3: Lee "Scratch" Perry - "Pum Pum " from Repentence, out now on Narnack Records. This is Perry's collaboration with Andrew W.K. For real. Video: Lee "Scratch" Perry - "Pum Pum" ...
By Jake Brown August 25, 2008
Concise, two and three minute long songs that brought the art-damaged weirdos some additional exposure outside of the Bay area.
By Todd Totale August 26, 2008
MP3: Jonatha Brooke - "There's More True Lovers Than One" from The Works, out today on Bad Dog Records. This is the first album of previously unheard lyrics by Woody Guthrie set to original music written and performed by a...
By Jake Brown August 26, 2008
MP3: Benji Hughes - "I Went With Some Friends To See The Flaming Lips" from A Love Extreme, the two-disc debut from Benji Hughes out now on New West Records. A few more MP3s: • Benji Hughes - "You Stood...
By Jake Brown August 27, 2008
The AP reports that 27-year-old blogger Kevin Cogill was arrested in Los Angeles and held for "violating US copyright laws" for streaming parts of the 14 year delayed Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy. According to an arrest affidavit, Cogill...
By Derek Phillips August 27, 2008
MP3: The Pack A.D. - "Making Gestures" from Funeral Mixtape, out now on Mint Records. Yet another drum and guitar two-piece garage/blues band. This time it's two Canadian women though. So that's new. The Pack A.D.: Web, MySpace. ...
By Jake Brown August 28, 2008
MP3: Robyn Hitchcock - "Bad Case of History" from Luminous Groove, out now....
By Jake Brown August 29, 2008
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