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Glorious Noise Interview with Owsley "Bear" Stanley

Back in July 2006, I read somewhere that Owsley Stanley was still alive and selling jewelry in Australia. I found his website, read a bunch of his essays, and got...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · 1d

Taylor Swift Sold More Albums in a Week Than Anybody Ever (Probably*)

When Adele shattered the weekly album sales record in 2015, it didn't seem like it would ever be beat. Adele had sold 3.378 million copies of 25 in the United...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · 1d

Adele's Album Sales Are Historically Bonkers

Adele’s new album, 25, sold 3.38 million copies in its first week in the United States. This is bonkers. That's more -- way more -- than any other album has...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · 2d

Marvel & Music. By Stephen Macaulay.

Marvel & Music

Robert Downey Jr. has been nominated for three Academy Awards, one for Best Actor and two for supporting roles. He received an Oscar in 2023 for his supporting role in...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · 4d

New Weakened Friends: Smoke and Mirrors

Video: Weakened Friends - "Smoke and Mirrors" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoqTv3YddT4 Directed by Tadin Brego. From Feels Like Hell, out now on Don Giovanni. I saw the end of Weakened Friends' set at...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · 5d

New Rocket: Another Second Chance

Video: Rocket - "Another Second Chance" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMFWEEbFrgY Directed by Steph Rinzler. From R is for Rocket, out now on Transgressive. The video is dopey but the song is cool. Not...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · 6d

New Florence + The Machine: One Of The Greats

Video: Florence + The Machine - "One Of The Greats" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7XL4ehHoE0 Directed by Autumn de Wilde. From Everybody Scream, out October 31. What's up with all these long songs lately?...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · 9d

The Digital Exchange: Profit Trumps Privacy. By Stephen Macaulay.

The Digital Exchange: Profit Trumps Privacy

Last year—which seems a long time ago—Congress passed the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.” The long and short of it is that this was to prevent ByteDance,...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · 14d

New Ratboys: Light Night Mountains All That

Video: Ratboys - "Light Night Mountains All That" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgF8ugvCbr0 Directed by Marcus Nuccio. Single out now on New West. Ratboys are a Chicago band that's been around for more than...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · 16d

UK Takes on Ticketmaster (Sort Of). By Stephen Macaulay.

UK Takes on Ticketmaster (Sort Of)

What some people may remember. . .vaguely. . .is when getting tickets for a concert required going to a record store or other physical outlet and waiting in line, hoping...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · 20d

Riot Fest 2025: When the Going Gets Weird

After attending a couple Lollapaloozas it was comforting to get back to a festival where the target demographic is essentially me: greying dads with receding hairlines, faded Misfits t-shirts, and...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · 28d

New Dean Johnson: Before You Hit the Ground

Video: Dean Johnson - "Before You Hit the Ground" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NdOcLQUWRs Directed by E. Ryan McMackin. From I Hope We Can Still Be Friends, out now on Saddle Creek. I saw...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · Sep 15

The Pop Burgers Paradox. By Stephen Macaulay.

The Pop Burgers Paradox

Last week The Washington Post ran a comparatively long story about. . .Katy Perry. Some 2,100 words. Who knew that readers of the primary paper of the Capitol City would...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · Sep 11

WHO MADE WHO: Rock radio, targeted males, and the tyranny of nostalgia. By Johnny Loftus.

WHO MADE WHO: Rock radio, targeted males, and the tyranny of nostalgia

In January 2018, rock radio in Chicago met its eschatological fate when K-Love ran the flaming sword of the archangel Uriel through the prostrate body of WLUP. The Loop had...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · Sep 10

New Juliana Hatfield: Scratchers

Video: Juliana Hatfield - "Scratchers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIKstlNN-2c Directed by Paige Applin. From Lightning Might Strike, out December 12 on American Laundromat. I was really hoping I was going to win the...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · Sep 9

New Jeff Tweedy: Feel Free

Video: Jeff Tweedy - "Feel Free" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx4eUAlxcC8 Directed by Lance Bangs. From Twilight Override, out September 26 on dBpm. It's funny to hear Jeff Tweedy say "Hail Satan." But I...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · Sep 8

Elephants and Ebony. By Stephen Macaulay.

Elephants and Ebony

For some reason Adrian Belew, with two songs on the subject of elephants, has likely written 200% more songs than other composers on the subject. There is “Elephant Talk” on...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · Sep 2

Brand Who. By Stephen Macaulay.

Brand Who

In August 1997 Tom Peters, a leading management consultant who decided that a buttoned-down McKinsey career wasn’t what he wanted to pursue so he went out on his own and...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · Sep 2

Sounds Legally Messy. By Stephen Macaulay.

Sounds Legally Messy

As the back-to-school season is in full swing, there are those who are probably wondering about the burden of the student loans they are carrying in relation to the potential...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · Aug 18

Beef By the Numbers. By Stephen Macaulay.

Beef By the Numbers

Lucian Grainge is an example of a man who literally worked his way up in the music industry. He started at a company owned by CBS Records, April Music, as...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · Aug 15

New Lucy Dacus: Bus Back To Richmond

Lyric Video: Lucy Dacus - "Bus Back To Richmond" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqFpJoAE4s4 Single out now on Geffen. Lucy Dacus is such a great songwriter. I held your hand on the bus back...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · Aug 14

New Joelton Mayfield: Turpentine (You Know the One)

Video: Joelton Mayfield - "Turpentine (You Know the One)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJcYdrro9ak From Crowd Pleaser, out October 24 on Bloodshot. When I first heard the opening lyrics to this song ("The best...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · Aug 12

Forty Years of the Sinatras

A funny thing happens if you don't die young: You get old. And all the people around you who don't die get old too. And the weirdest part is that...

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · Aug 11

Elvis Lives. In Wales.. By Stephen Macaulay.

Elvis Lives. In Wales.

South of Pyle and west of Merthyr Mawr on the Bristol Channel sits Porthcawl, a Welsh town of 16,000 that was established in the 19th century as a coal port....

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Glorious Noise @gloriousnoise.com · Aug 8

Hammer Time. By Stephen Macaulay.

Hammer Time

So what do you do if you’re a musician in a world where the income can come from streaming—perhaps not a whole lot, but some is better than none—and you...

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