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Glorious Noise June 2009« May 2009 | Archives | July 2009 » New Magnolia Electric Co. - JosephineMP3: Magnolia Electric Co. - "Josephine" from Josephine, due July 21 on Secretly Canadian. "I've turned your life so upside-down / I don't know how you stayed or why." So begins the title track from Jason Molina's latest album. Doesn't... Most Popular GLONO Items: May 2009
Are the Major Labels starting to...get it?A couple of recent articles have made me wonder if the major labels are finally starting to retract their heads from their asses when it comes to dealing with the internet. Last week, the New York Times reported that music... Advertisement
New Son Volt - Down To The WireMP3: Son Volt - "Down To The Wire " from American Central Dust, due July 7 on Rounder. No, it's not the Buffalo Springfield outtake, although I can totally hear Jay Farrar singing that. Did Uncle Tupelo used to... Polly Scattergood - Polly Scattergood
Rancid Says Punk Is Still Not DeadLars Frederiksen and Tim Armstrong from Rancid talk to Express Night Out about getting older, having kids, and what punk means today: I got friends who are my age — I'm 43 — who say punk rock is dead. Really?... Cool Band: 1776I must admit: I got very, very drunk Saturday night. I went to see a couple of local bands who are somehow associated with the Dandy Warhols and ended up mostly incoherent in the back of a cab stinking... Hell Freezes Over: Neil Young Archives (Vol 1) releasedThe Neil Young Archives Finally Arrives. Neil's got a new site: The NYA Post Informer. I don't really even know what to say. I didn't pre-order it because I didn't want to jinx it. Have you picked it up... Photos: The Hold Steady Live at Leeds
Streams: Iggy, Frank, Elvis, moreAOL/Spinner is streaming the following albums through Sunday, June 6, so listen while you can. • Iggy Pop, 'Preliminaires' • Frank Sinatra, 'Classic Sinatra II' • Elvis Costello, 'Secret, Profane & Sugarcane' • Eels, 'Hombre Lobo - 12 Songs of... Sales: Eminem vs. Grizzly BearThe Top 10 of the Billboard 200: 1. Eminem - "Relapse" - 211,000 (down 65%) 2. Green Day - "21st Century Breakdown" - 76,000 (down 54%) 3. "Hannah Montana: The Movie" soundtrack - 52,000 (down 10%) 4. Marilyn Manson -... Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
Two New Kanye West VideosWell, one new one and one old, previously unreleased one anyway. The new one is the official video for "Paranoid" (featuring Rihanna), directed by Nabil Elderkin, which has been circulating for a while in various states of completion. As Kanye... Down down down: How low can album sales go?Billboard reports that album sales are continuing to slide into oblivian: Track Equivalent Albums (TEAs) were 13.1% lower in May 2009 versus May 2008. That was a reversal from the relatively successful month of April in which TEAs were down... Pay to Slum: Black Eyed Peas, "Boom Boom Pow"
New MGMT video - KidsI think you all know how much we love this band. Their freaky videos are a big part of why and this shit is crazy freaky. As my man Bennett said, "sometimes Joanna Newsom's gotta be your Mom and drop... Lost Classics: XTC - Black Sea
New God Help the Girl SongsA couple of new MP3s from Stuart Murdoch's God Help the Girl project: • God Help the Girl - "Mary's Market" • God Help the Girl - "Funny Little Frog" "Mary's Market" is the b-side to the "Funny Little... Big Star Bonanza: Box Set, Bonus Tracks, moreFor a band who only released two real albums that were both universally ignored at the time, Big Star certainly has a high profile these days. Why? Because they wrote really catchy songs that might not have been en... Hilary Rosen, 10 Years after NapsterRemember Hilary Rosen? She was the CEO of the RIAA back when Napster help peer-to-peer filesharing go mainstream. Rosen was the public face of the most hated organization on the planet, at least as far as nerdy internet people were... Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Jeremy Barnes Shares His Favorite Gypsy JamsFormer Neutral Milk Hotel drummer and current leader of A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Jeremy Barnes compiles a list of 20 examples of his favorite Romanian music for FACT magazine: Musicians in Romania and Hungary have given much of the... Neil Young Album Tracks Not on the Archives
Discovery - Orange ShirtMP3: Discovery - "Orange Shirt" from LP, out July 7 on XL. Chipper, synth pop from Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend and Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot. According to the publicist, the project is "an attempt to realize Wes’s... 7 Worlds Collide 2009 video onlineYouTube playlist: Seven Worlds Collide 2009 According to Pitchfork, this documentary aired on TVNZ last month. 7 Worlds Collide is Neil Finn's project that raises money for Oxfam and features Radiohead’s guitarist and drummer Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway, Johnny... Morrissey - MaladjustedMP3: Morrissey - "Maladjusted" from Maladjusted (Expanded Edition) out now on Island (UMG). The 1997 album, produced by Steve Lillywhite, has been re-sequenced by Morrissey and remastered, adding several b-sides and ditching two songs ("Roy's Keen" and "Papa Jack"). Packaging... Streams: Sonic Youth, Kasabian, moreAOL/Spinner is streaming the following albums through Sunday, June 14, so listen while you can. • Sonic Youth, 'The Eternal' (MP3) • Kasabian, 'The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum' • Rhett Miller, 'Rhett Miller' • The Dirty Projectors, 'Bitte Orca'... Wilco with Billy Bragg - Secret of the SeaVideo: Wilco with Billy Bragg - "Secret of the Sea" (live on Letterman, 2000) You know what makes this video totally awesome? 1. Jay Bennett's sweet fur coat. 2. Jay Bennett's sweet double-neck guitar. 3. Jay Bennett's sweet solos. 4.... Rothbury Releases ScheduleThe Rothbury Schedule is up. I'm sorry, but this looks like the worst festival schedule ever foisted upon the general public. Three and a half hours of unavoidable String Cheese Incident on Friday? Four hours of the Dead on Saturday...with... BETTER 360 Tour of CBGBs OnlineSure, there’s a lot on the Internet that is utter nonsense and sometimes even psychologically damaging, but then there are little gems like this: Virtual Tour of CBGBs. Let the Flash load (it’s slow) because it’s so worth it. Get... Stone Roses Discuss Remastering Their DebutThe NME has a great little interview with Stone Roses vocalist Ian Brown and producer John Leckie on the remastering of the band's debut album, which will be re-issued in August 2009. Check out the two of them talking... Sales: Who Asked Dave Matthews to Make Another Album?Ever wonder how many hardcore Rusties there are out in the world? Turns out there are about 5,000 of us: freaks who love Neil Young enough to fork over a bunch of cash for his multi-disc Archives collection, which debuted... National Recording Registry 2008The Library of Congress has announced its 25 new additions to the National Recording Registry. Under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, the Librarian, with advice from the Library’s National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB), is tasked... Phil Spector sans wigThe Smoking Gun has Phil Spector's most recent booking photo, and unfortunately for the convicted murdered, "Unlike his prior booking photo sessions, Spector was not allowed to wear a wig, per state prison regulations." Yipes.... Iron Maiden - Flight 666 The Film
Peter Hook: Libel ReportFormer New Order/Joy Division bassist Peter Hook is writing a tell-all book about his days in the Manchester club scene. It's called Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club. He posted the libel report from his lawyer, which contains all... Pay to Slum: Lady Gaga, "Love Game"
Axl Rose Won't Leave His HouseThe NY Daily News is claiming that Axl Rose has been going through a rough patch lately: The Guns N’ Roses front man, an admitted manic-depressive, has fired and rehired famed manager Irving Azoff at least three times in the... New Sub Pop Mix TapeMaybe in honor of the death of Geocities, the fine folks at Sub Pop have put up a fantastic new mini-site where you can download a 14-song mix from the label's recent releases. Of course, 11 of the 14 tracks... Duff reveals GNR's inspiration for AppetiteIn an interview with our homeboy John Sellars for Spin, Duff McKagan reveals what he and his bandmates in Guns N' Roses were listening to while they recorded their seminal album, Appetite for Destruction: The Joshua Tree was the soundtrack... New Weird Al - CraigslistVideo: 'Weird Al' Yankovic - "Craigslist" "I thought it would be anachronistically weird to have me as Jim Morrison screaming about Craigslist," Yankovic told Spinner. "That just seemed so completely wrong that I thought I had to do it." You... 21 Essential Songs from Neil Young's Archives Vol. 1
Streams: Big Star, George Harrison, moreAOL/Spinner is streaming the following albums through Sunday, June 21, so listen while you can. • Big Star, '#1 Record/Radio City' • George Harrison, 'Let It Roll - Songs by George Harrison' • The Beach Boys, 'Sunflower' • Spinal Tap,... New Dinosaur Jr. video: Over ItVideo: Dinosaur Jr. - "Over It" Awesome new video from Farm, dude June 23 on Jagjaguwar. This tiny little version we're embedding here hardly does it justice as it's shot in HD and look great when you make it huge.... Animal Collective video: Summertime ClothesVideo: Animal Collective - "Summertime Clothes" Animal Collective's new video for "Summertime Clothes" features the same freaky dancers that scared David Letterman last month. Directed by Danny Perez. Animal Collective: iTunes, Amazon, Insound, wiki.... Sales: Black Eyed Peas score second top 10 albumWe probably should take all the credit (or blame), because there is no clear evidence that it directly had any effect whatsoever, but can it really be a coincidence that GLONO kicked off our new "Pay to Slum" column by... Robbie Fulks Guides Fellow Musicians to MiseryGood old Robbie Fulks offers up a ten-step guide on how to be miserable as a professional musician. A couple of my favorites: 4. Treat the grubby menial/muscle aspects of the profession -- driving and repairing vans, hauling gear, arguing... Robbie Fulks Bloodshot SamplerI immediately felt a little goofy for including the silly Cher cover in that post about Robbie Fulks. Yes, he is known to enjoy the occasional quirky cover—it's undeniable (he's known to have a song-by-song Thriller remake in the... Vincent Chase has a bandMP3: The Honey Brothers - "Demonstration" I read an interview with Adrian Grenier and Andrew Vladeck from the Honey Brothers in this morning's Red Eye, and despite the fact that their drummer is an actor, I decided to check... Remastered Beatles on Vinyl Coming Soon?According to the blog, my vinyl review, vinyl lovers will have reason to celebrate later this year: November 14, 2009 has been mentioned by an industry insider as the tentative release date for the remastered Beatles vinyl. The same... Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl (live at the Fillmore East, 1970)So you know how I was whining about how Neil Young didn't include "Cinnamon Girl" on the Fillmore East disc of the Archives? Well, in the back of my mind, I gave Neil the benefit of the doubt, assuming that... Pay to Slum: Black Eyed Peas, "I Gotta Feeling"
You think CDs are overpriced?How would you like to be charged $1.92 million for 24 songs? That's a lot of money. Uggh. More. Via Techdirt.... Jim Diamond talks about DetroitLegendary Detroit producer Jim Diamond talks to the Phoenix New Times about whether he realized the White Stripes were going to be huge: No, you never think anyone is going to become a mega-star. These are your buddies you drink... Video: Attack Attack! - "Stick Stickly"The lengths some bands will go to in order to stand out…ENTER: Attack Attack and their awfully hilarious video for “Stick Stickly.” This is apparently the band’s attempt to carve out a brand new sub-genre for themselves; a little something... Andrew Bird - Oh NoMP3: Andrew Bird - "Oh No" from Noble Beast, out now on Fat Possum. This song features all the things you love about Andrew Bird: whistling, nerdy smart lyrics, violin, plus hand claps. What more could you want? The album... Beatles Rock Band IntroLike the writer at Gizmodo, I don't actually care much about Rock Band but the intro to the game that sums up the band's career in a little over two and a half minutes is dope. As trippy as it... Norton Records Still Hates CDsA couple of MP3s from I Still Hate CD's: Norton Records 45 RPM Singles Collection Vol. 2. • Figures of Light - "It's Lame" • Jades - "Surfin' Crow" Great stuff! Norton Records: iTunes, Amazon, Insound, wiki, web.... The Church - Live In Chicago
Stone Roses Singles Reissued This SummerIn a run up to the August re-release of their debut album, the Stone Roses will release five singles once a week starting July 6 in Britain. According to the NME, the re-issues will kick off with "Elephant Stone'' and... Autopsy Results: Jay Bennett Died of Accidental OverdoseThe Huffington Post is reporting that ex-Wilco member Jay Bennett died of an apparent accidental overdose of pain medication: Toxicology tests showed the 45-year-old musician died from an overdose of fentanyl, Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup said in a brief... The Stone Roses 20 Years Later: What the World Was Waiting For
Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double or TripleMP3: Yo La Tengo - "Periodically Double or Triple" from Popular Songs, out September 8 on Matador. "Never read Proust..." Me neither! But this features the bounciest organ I've year in a while. Fun! Yo La Tengo: iTunes, Amazon, Insound,... Raveonettes - Last Dance (demo)MP3: Raveonettes - "Last Dance (demo)" Amazingly, even in their demos, the Raveonettes capture the Phil Spector vibe. They're giving away bunch of demos to people who follow them on twitter...or something... Raveonettes: iTunes, Amazon, Insound, wiki, twitter.... Report: Michael Jackson DeadTMZ.com is reporting that Michael Jackson is dead at age 50. Several other news outlets have reported that he was rushed to hospital for a possible cardiac arrest, but TMZ is the only site to report that he has in... Spinnerette - Rebellious PalpitationsMP3: Spinnerette - "Rebellious Palpitations" from Spinnerette, out now on Anthem. This is Brody Dalle's new band, and they're clearly badass. Perhaps a little more polished than the Distillers, but come on. This is a song about doing blow and... Pay to Slum: Drake, "Best I Ever Had"
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Non-MJ News RoundupSome interesting links from around the web that you might've missed: • Buddyhead: News/Gossip – 06/22/2009 • Billboard: Beastie Boys' 'Hot Sauce' Due Sept. 15 • Aquarium Drunkard: Circulatory System (Will Hart) :: The AD Interview • New York Times:... A.A. Bondy - When the Devil's LooseMP3: A.A. Bondy - "When the Devil's Loose" from When the Devil's Loose, due September 1 on Fat Possum. Another ode to "Delia," the doomed heroine of so many murder ballads. Spooky! A.A. Bondy: iTunes, Amazon, Insound, wiki.... Streams: Wilco, Wu-Tang, Twisted SisterNPR is streaming: • Wilco, 'Wilco (The Album)' • Fanfarlo, 'Reservoir' (MP3) • Bjork, 'Voltaic' AOL/Spinner is streaming the following albums through Sunday, July 5, so listen while you can. • Wu-Tang Clan, 'Chamber Music' • Twisted Sister, 'Stay Hungry'... New Lily Allen video: Fuck YouVideo: Lily Allen - "Fuck You" (Explicit) A fun, vaguely trippy, first-person perspective video from everybody's favorite snotty Brit, off It's Not Me, It's You, out now. Lily Allen: iTunes, Amazon, Insound, wiki, web, MySpace, twitter.... Malcolm Middleton - Carry MeMP3: Malcolm Middleton - "Carry Me" from Waxing Gibbous, out August 11. I never listened to Arab Strap, and this is only the third or fourth song I've ever heard by this guy, but I've liked them all. If you... Fun with Forkcast, Round 15
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In this week's Pay to Slum, JTL takes a ride on Lady GaGa's disco stick.
In this week's Pay to Slum, JTL shares a deep-fried fast food dinner with the first group to take the top two spots on the Hot 100 since Outkast did it in 2004.
