Glorious Noise November 2008

Shoplifters Of The World Unite

There's a huge difference between the anonymous copyright infringement of today's filesharing networks and the stressful art of old school shoplifting. Back in the day, you used to sweat when you stole music.

Weird Al vs. MTV Censors

Nothing pleases the seventh-grade boy in me more than the recent resurgence of Weird Al Yankovic during this, the twenty-fifth anniverary of his first hit, "Ricky." There's been the profile in Wired, and more recently, the coverage of his release...

Top Ten Most Popular GLONO Items: Oct. 2008

We abandoned our GLONO charts a while ago after spambots started compromising the data. Turns out that some spammers really love the Neil Young album, Living with War. Who knew? Our methodology remains the same: If it's from the current...

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Album Streams: Mavis Staples, Led Zeppelin, more

These free album streams are available from AOL's Spinner through Sunday, November 9, so listen while you can. Try before you buy. • Mavis Staples, 'Live: Hope at the Hideout' • Led Zeppelin, 'Definitive Collection Mini LP Replicas' • Johann...

AC/DC - Black Ice

If you can overlook the band's greedy business decisions, you'll be pleasantly surprised at how close they come to releasing an album that's on par with their classics. Especially if you cherry pick the ten best cuts.

Sly Stone: "I'll Be Good, I Wish I Could..."

City Sound Inertia has a depressing account of the shenanigans behind the scenes at a recent Sly and the Family Stone show in Santa Rosa, California: The morning of the show, Sly Stone is in Los Angeles. He fires his...

Recent Headlines from POLJUNK

Thanks to the recent election, our national affairs desk has seen a lot of action lately. Here are the latest headlines from POLJUNK: • The View from Over Here, November 6, 2008. • A Note to One of our Advertisers:...

The Rosebuds - Life Like

Heads and shoulders above anyone else currently working in the "couple-core" movement.

Pop Songs Condensed Into Single Sentences

McSweeney's has Fifty Years of Popular Songs Condensed Into Single Sentences.: Patsy Cline, "Crazy" I want to do it with you so much I'm going fucking nuts. - - - -Frank Sinatra, "Strangers in the Night" I'm drunk and I...

Video: MGMT Live on the Interface

Spinner: MGMT Get Excited on the Interface Video: MGMT - "Electric Feel" (live) MP3: MGMT - Live on the Interface...

The future's so bright, I gotta put a TV on a donkey.

Usually, those Cracked lists are just stupid, but this one has some good moments: The 9 Most Inappropriate Soundtrack Choices of All Time....

Will Barack Obama Change Hip Hop?

The Chicago Tribune calls Barack Obama "The first hip-hop president" in an article that examines the President-Elect's sometimes reluctant love of the genre. We've heard plenty about the forthcoming changes in economic policy and foreign relations, but we haven't...

Under the Influence Vinyl Singles

Suburban Home/Vinyl Collective has announced its new Under The Influence Series where they've asked several bands to record cover songs that have influenced their songwriting. They're being released as split 7" singles that will include coupons to download mp3s. Cool...

Motorhead - Motorizer

Motorhead's twenty-fourth album is an ass-kicking testament to the band's consistency and contribution to rock music.

The Sound of the Smiths

Yet another "Best of! Most of The Smiths" compilation satiates the need for remastered audio with participation from both Morrissey and Johnny Marr.

Album Streams: Smiths, New Order, Cheap Trick, more

These free album streams are available from AOL's Spinner through Sunday, November 16, so listen while you can. Try before you buy. Note: AOL/Spinner still call these "full" album streams despite the fact that they rarely stream the entire album...

Faces to Reform

The NME is reporting that the Faces will reunite with all original members except Ronnie Lane, who died of pneumonia in 1997. The band is set to meet for rehearsals next Monday, November 17, to run through their old hits...

Lost Classics: Van Halen - Fair Warning

Darker and more foreboding than what fans were expecting, Van Halen's fourth album contains the grittiest guitar tones of the their entire catalog.

Download Live Mountain Goats

The always awesome nyctaper is offering a couple of recent Mountain Goats shows for download: November 8, 2008, Music Hall of Williamsburg, and November 9, 2008, Webster Hall. The sets include several tracks from the tour-only Kaki King-collaboration Black Pear...

A Hard Day's Night: Finding The Beatles Lost Chord

A mathematician uses a calculation to solve the riddle of which notes were played in the opening chord of a Beatles song. Is he right? Does it matter?

White Album #5 On eBay

The lowest numbered copy of the Beatles' White Album has been posted on eBay. According to the posting: Some years ago, this album was taken into the collectors shop named 'Vinyl Revival Records' in Newbury, Berkshire, England by a musician...

Whatever happened to the Chicago Alternative Class of 1993?

Chicago Sun-Times pop music critic Jim DeRogatis takes a look back to the promising music scene in Chicago in the mid-90s: The curse of alternative nostalgia: What the heck happened to the Class of '93? For those of you too...

An Apologia for the Video Gaming Youth

Are video games the ultimate meritocracy?

Backstage Riders: Rage, Bjork, more

The Smoking Gun has added a bunch of new backstage riders to its already impressive collection. You can tell a lot about a person by what they like to drink. Or, in this case, what kind of champagne they demand:...

McCartney wants to release Beatles' "Carnival of Light"

According to an interview on BBC Radio 4, Paul McCartney wants world to hear 'lost' Beatles epic, "Carnival of Light," a 13-minute, 48-second track recorded on January 5, 1967: The piece was inspired, McCartney says, by the works of composers...

Ten Songs By Musicians Who Died Too Soon

Great topic of debate here at Matadornights: Ten Songs By Musicians Who Died Too Soon. Their list includes: Elliot Smith “Needle In The Hay” Metallica “(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth” (featuring the late Cliff Burton) Jeff Buckley “Halleluja (live at Sin-e)” Nirvana...

TRL: RIP

Idolator eulogizes MTV's Total Request Live, which made its debut in 1998 and celebrated its finale on Sunday night following years of declining ratings: [1999-2004] may turn out to be the last stretch of time in which musical tastes could...

Julian Koster - The Singing Saw at Christmastime

A collection of holiday classics that is guaranteed to freak out your parents. What more could you want in your stocking this Christmas?

Nerd World's "Hottest Female Guitarists"

Yet another stupid internet list... Jeez, as if the chronic masturbators at Guitar World weren't dorky enough. Now they've come up with a list of the Top 20 Hottest Female Guitarists!!! And just to marginalize women musicians even more and...

The Last Picture Show: Final Photos of Famous People

This image is the last known photo of Elvis Presley, taken at 12:28 Am on August 16, 1977, hours before he was found dead at Graceland. It's part of an interesting collection of "10 Fascinating Last Pictures" and features a...

Album Streams: Belle and Sebastian, Tom Jones, more

These free album streams are available from AOL/Spinner through Sunday, November 23, so listen while you can. Try before you buy. Note: AOL/Spinner still call these "full" album streams despite the fact that they rarely stream the entire album anymore,...

The Green Hour Band - The Green Hour Band

A young Canadian band shows remarkable prowess in honoring their influences.

Fun with Forkcast, Round 11

We've said it before and we'll say it again: just because it's been a couple months since we've done a Forkcast update, it doesn't mean we haven't been paying attention. Here's some good stuff that the Fr0k has given up...

Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy

It took Axl sixteen years to finish this album. It took us an hour and ten minutes to listen to it. You're welcome.

Lorus Live in Chicago

We just received this memo from Dylan Burr, famous from the Faces Don't Lie series here on GLONO: Lorus is playing tonight at Subterranean with Dub Trio. You may know them better as the backing band for Mike Patton's Peeping...

For No Good Reason

No reason to post this other than it cracks me up. Happy Friday!...

Harvey Milk - Life...The Best Game In Town

Incorporating a wider range in the margins of sludge metal, will the band pick up new fans now that Sean Penn has made a movie about their namesake?

2008 Albums Sold - Year To Date

Music industry gadfly Bob Lefsetz pulls out some of the year's top selling albums to date and gives his comments. Here are the albums he showcases: 1. Lil Wayne "Tha Carter III" 2,671,816 2. Coldplay "Viva La Vida" 1,905,679 3....

Glen Campbell - Times Like These

MP3: Glen Campbell - "Times Like These" (Foo Fighters cover) from Meet Glen Campbell, out now on Capitol. Campbell played guitar on some of the best records of all time as a member of the Wrecking Crew, he toured and...

Beatles on iTunes: We Can (Not) Work It Out

Billboard reports that Beatles iTunes Negotiations have stalled. Quoting Paul McCartney, it appears as though the problem is between the Beatles and their label, EMI—not between them and Steve Jobs. Paul: "We are very for it, we've been pushing it....

Glen Campbell & Stevie Wonder - Blowing in the Wind

Speaking of Glen Campbell... Video: Glen Campbell & Stevie Wonder - "Blowing in the Wind" From the Glen Campbell Good Time Hour, February 19, 1969....

Erykah Badu - New Ameryka, Pt. 1: 4th World War

Documenting the general feeling that we are at a low ebb where the only place to go is up, Badu creates a major piece of work, challenging but rewarding.

Video: BrokeNCYDE - Freaxxx

Can we get congress to investigate this? BrokeNCYDE - Freaxxx Brokencyde - Freaxxx (Music Video) from Eat Cake Films on Vimeo. Check out the comments on their MySpace page. Sorry to ruin your week....

Neil Young Archives: New Release Date

Crazy old Neil Young has set yet another release date for his Archives set, according to Rolling Stone. We're looking at January 27, 2009. At least until they change it again... After more than 20 years, the first volume of...

Lucksmiths - Up with the Sun

MP3: The Lucksmiths - "Up with the Sun" from First Frost, out now on Matinee. Read guitarist Marty Donald's recording diary. One more: The Lucksmiths - "A Sobering Thought (Just When One Was Needed)" The Lucksmiths: Web, MySpace, Wiki....

Rock Stars In Their Parents' Homes

It’s hard to imagine that the douchebags in BrokeNCYDE even have parents, nevermind what those parents’ houses look like. But I imagine the same could have been said about The Byrds' former member and CSNYmega-hippy David Crosby (pictured with...

Shine On You. . .

The subtitle of He Is. . .I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond might seem somewhat ironic, but there is so much schmaltzy prose going on that it is clear that the author never stopped loving Neil Diamond.