Glorious Noise Recommended
Sonic Youth is back with their best work since Washing Machine.
By Todd Totale June 29, 2009
The latest visual offering in the band's extensive video collection proves that Iron Maiden is the best live band in the world today.
By Todd Totale June 12, 2009
A trippy blend of old school analog synths fronted by primitive robotic vocoder. This time produced by Dave Fridmann.
By Todd Totale June 4, 2009
The album that will finally test the patience of the alternative elite that has supported them. True metalheads will love it.
By Todd Totale April 8, 2009
After three fine and sadly overlooked records on Southern Records, the Iowa native moves the current home of Neko Case and Tom Waits for number four.
By Todd Totale February 23, 2009
Everything great about American underground rock music: next to every challenging element is a melodic hook, housed in a unique formula that sounds both reassuringly familiar and wonderfully unique.
By Todd Totale February 20, 2009
An efficient half-hour package of love's trials and tribulations.
By Todd Totale February 19, 2009
What happens when a person attempts to listen to Animal Collective when they're not baked? One brave GLONO contributor sets down the bong long enough to find out.
By Todd Totale January 26, 2009
After a nearly fatal bout of pneumonia, Jason Pierce resurrects his band, his career, and his life.
By Todd Totale January 5, 2009
The latest from Neil Young's archival series captures the artist at the beginning of his solo career and justifies our madness for him. Just when you're ready to bail on the old nutter you're finding that you're leaving too soon.
By Derek Phillips December 18, 2008
When Deerhunter isn't amassing squalor, they're deconstructing it, softly spun with pianos, tremolo, and layers of reverb soaked guitars.
By Todd Totale December 8, 2008
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.
By Todd Totale November 26, 2008
Motorhead's twenty-fourth album is an ass-kicking testament to the band's consistency and contribution to rock music.
By Todd Totale November 11, 2008
Beth Gibbons sounds as miserable as ever and the content of her lyrics...like Gibbons, herself...are older and more complex.
By Todd Totale October 21, 2008
A review of Manchester big mouths' new album—for fans only. The rest of you can carry on listening to !!! or The Cool Kids.
By Derek Phillips October 7, 2008
Will Sheff leads his group through the sequel to The Stage Names and goes out of his way to dismantle the very idea of hero worship.
By Todd Totale October 1, 2008
An unexpected left turn from the nifty power-pop of their debut album.
By Todd Totale September 19, 2008
A look back at the 1988 album that launched Mark Hollis out of the New Wave ghetto and into something much deeper.
By Todd Totale September 15, 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 September 12, 2008
With songs pulled from shows across the summer of 1983, it perfectly encapsulates everything that made U2 so exciting at the time.
By Jake Brown September 11, 2008
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