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Most Popular GLONO Items: June 2009

You love Glorious Noise.Once a month we look back on the stuff we wrote that got the most attention.

Michael Jackson once again excluded from Billboard 200

Michael Jackson, looking awesomeThree Michael Jackson albums sold more copies this week than the #1 record on the Billboard's main album chart. That's fucked up.

Stone Roses Singles Reissued This Summer

In 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...

Neil Young Album Tracks Not on the Archives

Neil Young Archives Volume 1 (1963 - 1972)The press is lying to you, saying that Neil Young Archives Volume 1 (1963 - 1972) is a definitive collection of all of Young's recorded output. It's not.

Big Star Bonanza: Box Set, Bonus Tracks, more

For 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...

Cool Band: 1776

I 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...

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...

Most Popular GLONO Items: May 2009

You love Glorious Noise.Once a month we look back on the stuff we wrote that got the most attention.

Cool Band: Michael Dean Damron

I briefly met Michael Dean Damron when he opened for Two Car Garage at Dante’s in downtown Portland. He’s a great hairy beast of a man who leans into the mic as he belts out dusty ballads and scornful...

Message from Undertow Records Re: Jay Walter Bennett

Undertow just sent this email to fans: Our good friend Jay Walter Bennett left us this weekend. As news hits the wires so instantaneously these days, we thought it was important to share some thoughts about our friend and brother...

Wilco Songs Co-Written by Jay Bennett

Jay Bennett, All Over the PlaceA list of the songs that the late guitarist had a hand in writing. Not a shabby resume.

Kara DioGuardi writes worst song EVER

Unjustifiably smug Kara DioGuardiThe fourth judge on American Idol writes a coronation song so bad she deserves to be kicked off the show and kicked out of the country. Yes, it's that bad.

The Lucksmiths Break Up

The Lucksmiths, back in the dayThe Lucksmiths say farewell.

John Lennon: New York exhibit shows bag of bloody clothes

John Lennon: The New York Years"John Lennon: The New York Years" at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex will feature a paper bag containing the bloody clothes from the night he was murdered.

Most Popular GLONO Items: April 2009

You love Glorious Noise.Once a month we look back on the stuff we wrote that got the most attention.

Neutral Milk Hotel Needs Your Help

paragon-face.jpgJulian Koster has recruited his former bandmates to appeal to their fans to help preserve an 81-year-old "whirling contraption of mechanical music and light."

Cool Band: Shoeshine Blue

Shoeshine BlueSpawn of Leonard Cohen or just plain good indie-folk-pop? What's the difference? Great band from the Pacific Northwest.

Cool Band: Pomegranates

Remember when Kirsten Dunst was kinda indie, kinda unknown but mega cute with those fangs of hers and that quirky laugh? Back before Spiderman. She was all I could see in The Virgin Suicides. She completely took over the...

Record Store Day: What'd you get? What's the point?

By the time I got to my local record store shortly after noon, they were sold out of pretty much all of the Record Store Day exclusives. On top of that, they didn't have the new release I was looking...

Neil Young Archives Volume 1 on CD

Neil Young Archives Volume I (1963 - 1972)You can finally pre-order the CD version of the Neil Young Archives, Volume 1.

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