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Tom Waits Is SatanTom Waits will portray Satan himself in Terry Gilliam's upcoming film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. “How do you play the devil?,” muses Waits of his second pairing with the filmmaker. “How do you play an archetype that large,... Most Popular GLONO Items: June 2009
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GLONO at RothburyThe Grateful Dead-loving contingent of the GLONO Posse has arrived at Rothbury. The crew will be posting updates to Twitter. The first one just arrived: "Entering the Rothbury grounds. Apparently tie dye shirts are still all the rage." Follow us.... Robbie Fulks: Michael Jackson "better than Elvis"In a thoughtful eulogy for Michael Jackson, country crooner Robbie Fulks explains the origins of his fascination with the King of Pop: In 1999, Peter McDowell at the Chicago Cultural Center had me put together a performance in honor of... Freebird RevisitedThe Chicago Tribune attempts to tackle the origins of shouting "Freebird" at shows, and gives a shout out to Glorious Noise for our pioneering research on the subject. In 2005, the Wall Street Journal hunted for the original shouter --... Top 25 Punk LogosThe Y! Music Playlist Blog compiles the Greatest Punk Rock Band Logos. Impossible to argue with their top three, but the rest of the list is ripe for discussion. Via punknews.... Smiths titles worked into nature showVideo: Springwatch 2009: Smiths references Springwatch is a nature program on the BBC. Its host, Chris Packham, managed to mention over thirty song titles by the Smiths into the show's dialog over the most reason season. A helpful YouTube user... Jeff Tweedy, Volunteer BabysitterThe New York Times profiles Wilco's Jeff Tweedy as a Not-So-Tortured Star. Drummer Glenn Kotche shares an anecdote: “He’s generous as an artist and as a person. The other night in El Paso some of us were traveling with our... Discovery - LP
Streams: Son Volt, Bowerbirds, moreAOL/Spinner is streaming the following albums through Sunday, July 12, so listen while you can. • 'American Central Dust' by Son Volt (MP3) • 'Life on Earth' by Tiny Vipers (MP3) • 'LP' by Discovery (MP3) • 'Upper Air' by... Julia Dales, Human Beat BoxVideo: Julia Dales - Amazing Beat Box Girl Julia Dales, a 17 year old Canadian girl, won the wildcard competition of the Beatbox Battle World Championship. Awesome. Via bb.... Online Radio Royalty Deal ReachedThe New York Times reports that Music Labels Reach Royalty Deal With Online Stations: Webcasters with significant advertising revenue, like Pandora or Slacker, will pay the greater of 25 percent of revenue or a fee each time a listener hears... New Blitzen Trapper video: Black River KillerVideo: Blitzen Trapper - "Black River Killer" New video for one of the highlights of last year's Furr. The very literal video ("Her mouth was sewn shut, but her eyes were still wide") has an O Brother, Where Art Thou?... Trailer: "It Might Get Loud" ft. Jack White, Jimmy Page, and the EdgeVideo: 'It Might Get Loud' Trailer When I first heard about this movie, I thought it sounded cheesy as shit. But this trailer looks really cool. The documentary "tells the personal stories of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos" and... Sales: Wilco (the album) Beats Off the WallIn the wake of Michael Jackson posthumously setting all kinds of chart records, Billboard has actually published the Top 25 of its all-encompassing Comprehensive Album Chart as well as the Top 22 of its Catalog Album Chart. Wilco has the... Beck interviews Tom WaitsBeck has started a new thing on his website called Irrelevant Topics that features "conversations between musicians, artists, writers, etc. on various subjects, without promotional pretext or editorial direction." To kick it off, he offers "Tom Waits x Beck Hansen... The Donnas - Get OffMP3: The Donnas - "Get Off" from Greatest Hits Vol. 16, out now on the band's own Purple Feather Records. Holy crap, by the end of this summer, all four of the Donnas will be thirty years old. Time... Rothbury 2009
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Remastered Beatles Box Sets Available for Pre-OrderThe remastered Beatles box sets are available for pre-order on Amazon. The Beatles Stereo Box Set. List Price: $259.98. The Beatles Mono Box Set (LIMITED). List Price: $298.98 Right now, Amazon is selling them at their list prices, but I... Shelley Short - Time Machine / SubmarineVideo: Shelley Short - "Time Machine / Submarine" We first encountered Shelley Short when she, along with GLONO's own Quasar Wut-Wut, opened up for Colin Meloy of the Decemberists at Schubas a few years ago. Our pal Andy Rader even... Merle Haggard - Live at Riverside Casino
Streams: Dead Weather, Bowie, Beasties, moreAOL/Spinner is streaming the following albums through Sunday, July 19, so listen while you can. • Dead Weather, 'Horehound' • David Bowie, 'Storytellers' • Beastie Boys, 'Ill Communication' (reissue) • Blue Roses, 'Blue Roses' (MP3) More streams after the jump,... Riviera Songs Used in A&E TV Show The CleanerTwo years after our last show, Riviera is back…on TV. GLONO’s own will have two songs featured in the July 28 July 21 episode of the A&E network’s show The Cleaner, starring Benjamin Bratt. Both “Friends in California” and “Golden... John Lennon - Watching the Wheels (acoustic demo)Stream: John Lennon - "Watching the Wheels" acoustic demo (ASX, QTL) This version of Lennon's classic Double Fantasy single was originally released on the 2004 Acoustic collection, which caught a lot of flack for containing 9 previously released tracks (out... Rothbury 2009: Not a Dead Head? You'd Still Have a Blast
New Dead Weather video: Treat Me Like Your MotherVideo: The Dead Weather - "Treat Me Like Your Mother" Directed by Jonathan Glaze, featuring Jack White and Alison Mosshart playing with guns in an abandoned lot in a dusty suburban subdivision. Good thing they're zombies (which would explain the... Mike Nesmith Talks about the MonkeesThese have been up for a while, but the official Monkees site has three great podcasts featuring Mike Nesmith being interviewed by Rhino's Chief Monkees Officer, Andrew Sandoval. The best one is Part 2, wherein Nez talks about the band's... Sales: Michael Jackson, again, beats the #1 albumFor the third week in a row, Michael Jackson has sold more albums than anything on the Billboard 200. His Number Ones collection sold 349,000 copies, while this week's "No. 1" record, Maxwell's BLACKsummers'night, only sold 316,000. He can be... GNR Leaker Sentenced to House ArrestWired: Guns N' Roses Uploader Gets House Arrest, Will Make Anti-Piracy Ad. Kevin "Skwerl" Cogill, the blogger who uploaded nine tracks from Chinese Democracy to Antiquiet prior to its release date, got a slap on the wrist, won't have to... Cool Band: Adam and DarcieMP3: Adam and Darcie - "Hands/ Mind" from California Trail, out July 24 on Village Ten, and July 20 overseas on Indiecater Records. Lovely, orchestral pop by a husband/wife duo from Utah. What's not to like? I hear a... Moby - Wait For Me
D'Arcy Dishes on Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, and Davy JonesOriginal Smashing Pumpkins bass player D'Arcy Wretzky unexpectedly called in to Q101 on their request line to ask about an upcoming Davy Jones show and to find out the name of the band who sings "Panic Switch." What you are... New Arctic Monkeys - Crying LightningBad ass new track from the Arctic Monkeys’ third album, Humbug (August 25, Domino Records) and Produced by Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and James Ford (Simian Mobile Disco). “Crying Lightning” is a simmering creeper anchored with... Pay to Slum: 3Oh!3, Don't Trust Me
Fruit Bats - Ruminant BandMP3: Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band from The Ruminant Band, due August 4 on Sub Pop. It starts out sounding like Glen Campbell's version of "Southern Nights" and migrates into an Allman Brothers song! Awesome. Also: Fruit Bats -... Plushgun - Let Me Kiss You Now (And I'll Fade Away)Video: Plushgun - "Let Me Kiss You Now (And I'll Fade Away)" Saw this video on Subterranean this week and I like it a lot. Directed by Ana Veselic for only $99. A cute girl, a bar fight, and a... Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Get Your Own Songs on Rock BandBillboard: MTV To Launch New Track Upload Program For 'Rock Band': "We've figured out how to make it so anybody who owns and controls masters and publishing can put music into ["Rock Band"] at their own pace," says MTV Games... Beastie Boys Cancel Summer Dates, Yauch With CancerThe Beastie Boys have canceled their summer dates and pushed back the release of their upcoming album indefinitely. In a video message on beastieboys.com Adam Yauch announced that he’d been diagnosed with a localized form of cancer in his parotid... WSJ profiles Third Man RecordsThe Wall Street Journal looks at Jack White, the businessman. Included online is this little video wherein the Dirtbombs' Ben Blackwell leads us on a tour of the vinyl pressing plant: Pretty cool to see the records getting stamped, but... Streams: Sweet-Hoffs, Fiery Furnaces, moreAOL/Spinner is streaming the following albums through Sunday, July 26, so listen while you can. • Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs, 'Under the Covers Vol. 2' • Fiery Furnaces, 'I'm Going Away' More streams after the jump, and as always,... This Is $uccess?
Pinkerton: Deluxe Edition Coming SoonAccording to a post from Karl Koch on Weezer's site, there's a Deluxe Edition of Pinkerton in the pipeline "in the coming months ... at last - if all goes as planned." There's also a handful of stuff we... New Thom Yorke - Present Tense (live, acoustic)Video: Thom Yorke - "The Present Tense" (live at Latitude, July 19, 2009) He's really feeling it around the 3:48 mark. Radiohead: iTunes, Amazon, Insound, wiki... Riviera Songs in A&E's The CleanerSurprise! We were told that the episode featuring Riviera songs was to air next week. As it turns out, it aired last night, July 21. Luckily for you rabid Riviera fans, A&E posts video clips of the show on their... Michael Jackson is still sellingSo the bald American Idol growler sold more records this week than any of Michael Jackson's albums. Nevertheless, MJ "has six out of the top 10" best selling albums of the week, as reflected on Billboard's Top Comprehensive Albums chart,... Fun with Forkcast, Round 16
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Jeff Tweedy talks to SpinSpin: Wilco, Frankly. "I always think of the song ["Wilco (the song)"] as meaning not just Wilco," Tweedy tells me at the band's rehearsal space, the Loft. "I always think that song is saying, 'Your records will love you, baby.'... Brian Wilson Live in England
Streams: Blur, Dodos, moreAOL/Spinner is streaming the following albums through Sunday, August 2, so listen while you can. • Blur, 'Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur' • Dodos, 'Tie to Die' (MP3) • St Helens, 'Heavy Profession' (MP3) • Yacht, 'See Mystery Lights'... New Of Montreal video: MingusingsVideo: of Montreal - "Mingusings" Directed by Nick Gould, wherein our hero is a fencing mime who runs around stealing televisions, chopping wood, and visiting Australia. Why not? I love that Of Montreal refuses to tone down the goofiness no... Apple, Labels try to resuscitate the albumAccording to the Financial Times, Apple is working with EMI, Sony Music, Warner Music and Universal Music Group "to stimulate digital sales of albums by bundling a new interactive booklet, sleeve notes and other interactive features with music downloads..." Consumers... Sleater-Kinney vs. WeezerCat fight! This is awesome. Over on her Monitor Mix blog for NPR, former Sleater-Kinney guitarist (and general badass) Carrie Brownstein succinctly lays down exactly why Weezer has sucked for this entire fucking decade: I don't know if Weezer hates... Cool Band: The Jaguar ClubFor a while now, Brooklyn has been a hotbed of cooler than thou indie bands and freaky neo-hippies; I don’t know what is going on over there. Maybe that little borough has an unusually high unemployment rate that allows these... Chicago Mag Gives Credit to Jay BennettChicago magazine gives credit where credit is due with a nice homage to Jay Bennett: Bennett’s vintage keyboards float throughout songs like “She’s a Jar” and “Pieholden Suite,” leaving a dreamy aftertaste. His presence provides a continual commentary on... Glorious Noise Interview: Daniel Edlen, VinylArt
New Mountain Goats: Genesis 3:23MP3: The Mountain Goats - "Genesis 3:23" The Bible verse from the title of the song is: "Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken." (King James... Yo La Tengo - Here To FallVideo: Yo La Tengo - "Here To Fall" Directed by John McSwain. Cool song with psychedelic strings, electric piano, and flanged vocals. "I know you're worried / I'm worried too / But if you're ready / I'm here to fall... Hallelujah The Hills - Blank PassportsMP3: Hallelujah The Hills - "Blank Passports" The main guy in this band, Ryan Walsh, wrote two of my favorite songs from back in the MP3.com era: "Strictly Lousy" and "I'm So In Love It Hurts To Walk" by the... Billboard 200 still way out of touchOnce again, the #1 album on Billboard 200 is not the best selling album of the week. With 154,000 copies sold (down 21%), Michael Jackson's Number Ones sold 46,000 more than this week's #1 album. That's just dumb. 1. Demi... Sub Pop Looks Back and Offers DiscountsI like this. Sub Pop has a new feature on their site called For the Record that has staffers dig through the back catalog and write up something on the records that move them. This week’s feature is Beachwood... Charles Manson to collaborate with Phil Spector?According to the New York Post, Charles Manson wants to collaborate with Phil Spector since they've both got some time to, um, kill at Corcoran State Prison in central California: Soon after he settled in, "a guard brought Philip a... The Church - Untitled #23
Marilyn Manson vs. BuddyheadGood old Buddyhead is back to its game of pissing off lame celebrities. This time, they've really upset spooky old Marilyn Manson: Marilyn Manson is really pissed at Buddyhead cause we called him a fat cokehead poser. Well, MAN-the-fuck-UP Tubby!... 7 Worlds Collide Album Details
Senate Urges Review of Ticketmaster-Live Nation MergerYep, elections have consequences and after years of hyper capitalism and oversight-free marketeerism, the Big Wigs in Washington are starting to think bigger isn’t always better for the consumer. This week Rolling Stone reports that lawmakers have asked the Department... Pay to Slum: A hologram at the end of the world and other tales.
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In this week's Pay to Slum, JTL yawns through the stagnant singles chart, and checks in on Colbie Caillat at Six Flags.
Another photo feature from GLONO's UK headquarters. This time, we catch legendary Brian Wilson at the Gateshead Sage.
Daniel Edlen is carving out a niche for himself by using vinyl records as the medium for his drawings. The results are the perfect gifts for the vinyl fetishists among us. GLONO caught up with Daniel as he undertakes the dog days of summer art fair season.
