Glorious Noise

Price of Experience Can Come With a Sting. By Stephen Macaulay

There was probably a large number of people who traveled back to LA from the Empire Polo Club on Sunday April 19 or the morning of the 20th hacking and blistering. The second weekend of Coachella had a “Windblown Dust Advisory” because there were gusts of 25 mph kicking up the terrain on the 1,000-acre site that finished up its winter polo season in March....

#Coachella #fests #music #blog

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/price-of-experience-can-come-with-a-sting

Threefer Thursday: Some Acoustic Hits from The Cure. By Mike V

Robert Smith of The Cure celebrated a birthday this past Tuesday! Born on April 21st, 1959. He’s 67 years young now. So many great songs and albums. 14 studio records since 1979’s Three Imaginary Boys, with 2024’s Songs of a Los World being the most recent.

I got to see The Cure live on their summer tour in 2023, and it was outstanding....

#TheCure #ThreeferThursday #music #blog

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/threefer-thursday-some-acoustic-hits-from-the-cure

Lost Classics: The Wedding Present – Bizarro. By Todd Totale

The Wedding Present: Bizarro (RCA, 10/23/1989)

By Autumn of 1989, Leeds' The Wedding Present had accumulated enough material from leader David Gedge to schedule studio time once again with producer Chris Allison for their second full-length effort....

#LostClassics #WeddingPresent #music #blog

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/lost-classics-the-wedding-present-bizarro

No Kidding. By Stephen Macaulay

Waffle House Legend Award winner, 2020, Kid Rock has had quite a career that has been on the downward slide since about 2011.

In 1998 his Devil Without a Cause album sold 14 million units. His next studio album, Cocky, released in 2001, was taken up 5.7 million times. And after that came the self-titled Kid Rock, which had an 82% decline in sales to 1 million.

But still, a million is a non-trivial number....

#KidRock #music #blog

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/no-kidding

New Joe Pernice: Deep Into The Dawn (ft. Aimee Mann)

Video: Joe Pernice - "Deep Into The Dawn" (ft. Aimee Mann)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp2Uenox4TM

From The Black and the Blue, out April 3 on New West.

This is super pretty. And Aimee Mann's harmonies are gorgeous.

I've been digging into my past lately, trying to trigger memories that I've forgotten. It's crazy to me how much I've completely lost already....

#AimeeMann #JoePernice #NewWest #videos #music…

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/new-joe-pernice-deep-into-the-dawn-ft-aimee-mann

Threefer Thursday: It’s Erykah Badu’s Birthday! By Mike V

Erykah Badu was discovered and signed when she was opening for a young D’Angelo in 1994. She is a critical artist in the development of what is known as neo-soul or progressive soul, which draws its lineage from the soul music of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and other soul artists in the 70s....

#ErykahBadu #ThreeferThursday #music #blog

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/threefer-thursday-its-erykah-badus-birthday

New Kim Gordon: Dirty Tech. By Derek Phillips

Video: Kim Gordon - "Dirty Tech"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=941PIQ3yr8M

Directed by Moni Haworth. From Play Me, out March 13 on Matador.

First of all, God bless Kim Gordon. Always and forever. She’s been a pillar of cool for decades now and always out front in a musical sense....

#KimGordon #Matador #SonicYouth #videos #music #blog

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/new-kim-gordon-dirty-tech

New Killer Mike: Spying Eyes (Smiling Faces). By Mike V

Video: Killer Mike ft Lena Byrd Miles - “Spying Eyes (Smiling Faces)”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOwr1zL1Wj4

From The Gray House – Original Soundtrack From The Amazon Series, out now.

Killer Mike - the killer of mics - has been in my list of top five emcees for a long time. Run the Jewels is my all time favorite hip hop project....

#hiphop #KillerMike #videos #music #blog

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/new-killer-mike-spying-eyes-smiling-faces

Meet the Pendletones. By Stephen Macaulay

Ethan DuVeaux. The Hi-Tones. Solid Jackson. Theola Kilgore. The Sensationals. Marc Cavell and The Classmates. Eddie Lemarie. The Pendletones.

These are among the acts that released records in the early 1960s on the Candix Record label. Candix was located at 6425 Hollywood Boulevard, in the vicinity of where you’ll find the still-operating Amoeba Music, which is at 6200 Hollywood Boulevard....

#BeachBoys #BrotherRecords #music…

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/meet-the-pendletones

My Vinyl Solution: Listening to Records

Twenty years ago I gave away all my records to a pal. I actually kept about fifty, mostly stuff that was sentimental to me in some way. Oh, and I kept all my 45s. But I got rid of my LPs. Why? A couple of main reasons: I was sick of moving them, and I wasn't listening to them.

I'd been accumulating records all my life. But my wife and I moved around a lot....

#MyVinylSolution #vinyl #music #blog

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/my-vinyl-solution-listening-to-records

Threefer Thursday: George Duke-ify Your Life. By Mike V

George Duke (1946 - 2013) was a brilliant keyboard player, songwriter, bandleader, producer and vocalist. He played with Cannonball Adderley and Frank Zappa, and found success as a solo jazz funk artist tearing up the R&B airwaves in the late 70s....

Read more: https://gloriousnoise.com/threefer-thursday-george-duke-ify-your-life

#GeorgeDuke #jazz #ThreeferThursday #music #blog

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/threefer-thursday-george-duke-ify-your-life

New Touch Girl Apple Blossom: The Springtime Reminds Me Of…

Video: Touch Girl Apple Blossom - "The Springtime Reminds Me Of..." Directed by James Frank. From Graceful, out May 15 on K/Perennial. It's been in the fifties the past couple of days in West Michigan after more than a month of never getting above freezing. Seasonal affective disorder is real and you never realize it more than after the sun comes out for a couple of days and you're like, oh yeah, that's what…

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/new-touch-girl-apple-blossom-the-springtime-reminds-me-of

New Mommyheads: No Quietus

Video: The Mommyheads - "No Quietus" From No Quietus, out now. quietus noun qui·etus kwī-ˈē-təs -ˈā- 1: final settlement (as of a debt) 2: removal from activity especially : DEATH I've been listening to these guys for a long time, originally alerted to them via the old Chalkhills XTC mailing list in the early 2000s. Talking about it amongst friends, I learned it was the classic story: Regional indie band has some success with a small label…

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/new-mommyheads-no-quietus

Back Out of the Saddle

On July 29, 1999, at the Disney-MGM Studios theme park in Florida, the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith opened to the public. While you waited in line to climb into the limo-like ride cars you heard various tunes, like “Just Push Play.” Depending on what vehicle you got into you would hear “Nine Lives,” “Love in an Elevator,” “Young Lust,” “F.I.N.E.,” “Back in the Saddle,” or, what seems to be the least Disneyesque cut of all, “Dude…

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/back-out-of-the-saddle

New Bonnie “Prince” Billy: Hey Little

Video: Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "Hey Little" Directed by by Brent Stewart and Maya Stewart. From We Are Together Again, out on March 6 on Domino / No Quarter. Not long ago Bob Odenkirk was asked who he’s jealous of. As the actor of one of prestige television’s best known characters as Saul Goodman (previously, “Slippin’” Jimmy McGill) in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, as well as co-creator of Mr.

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/new-bonnie-prince-billy-hey-little

Threefer Thursday: All On A Mardis Gras Day

New Orleans. Where it all began. Musical ground zero for America. Where the American approach to music came to be defined by personalization, interpretation, and improvisation - definitively unique American musical elements. It’s part of why we have such a diverse array of musical styles, traditions, and genres in these United States. The Blues started in New Orleans. Jazz started in New Orleans.

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/threefer-thursday-all-on-a-mardis-gras-day

New Ratboys: Penny in the Lake

Video: Ratboys - "Penny in the Lake" Directed by Bobby Butterscotch. From Singin' to an Empty Chair, out February 6 via New West. I love Uncle Tupelo. There was a time where they were all I listened to for days on end. The guitars alternately ringing and screaming behind two voices that would define an entire sub-genre of music and spawn a million bands.

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/new-ratboys-penny-in-the-lake

Battle of the Bands

“And right now. . .right now. . .right now it’s time to. . .kick out the jams, motherfuckers!” --MC5, “Kick Out the Jams” (1969) In photographs of and posters for the MC5 the American flag is rather prominent, as it was in the band’s performances. Wayne Kramer’s guitar has the Stars and Stripes as a motif. The MC5 was sometimes referred to as the “house band” for the White Panther Party.

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/battle-of-the-bands

Twenty-Five Years: How’d That Happen?

Twenty-five years. What the fuck? Time flies. It's a cliche but it's true. The older you get, the faster it goes. You blink and you're old. I was still in my twenties when we started this thing. Bill Clinton had been out of office for less than three weeks. The World Trade Center was still there. The Donnas had just…

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/twenty-five-years-howd-that-happen

Threefer Thursday: Symphonic PFunk at the Detroit Opera House

Funk is a style of music that can move you to the core of your being if you let it. It’s got groove, it’s musically sophisticated, it feels good, and it embodies a certain kind of musical hope for the future. James Brown and Pee Wee Ellis invented modern funk music with 1967’s "Cold Sweat." Later, Bootsy Collins joined the James Brown band and Brown introduced him to the concept of…

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/threefer-thursday-symphonic-pfunk-at-the-detroit-opera-house

Tune in, Turn on, Unsubscribe

There’s a minor cultural movement right now where the kids are throwing it back to 2016, back to when they were...kids. It seems nobody is particular happy to be in 2026 and nostalgia has some longing for a time a decade past for solace. Now, 2016 was not such a great year for me. The Seattle Sounders won MLS Cup that season, just one year after my beloved Portland Timbers (first in Cascadia!).

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/tune-in-turn-on-unsubscribe

A History of Violence

On August 7, 1964, the “Gulf of Tonkin Resolution” was signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson. The reasons for the passage were because on August 2 a destroyer, the USS Maddox, was attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats, then, on August 4, that ship was again attacked along with another, the USS Turner Joy, although the second incident was later discovered, thanks to the release of the Pentagon Papers (officially: “History of U.S.

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/a-history-of-violence