http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/ en-us johnny@gloriousnoise.com Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:07:32 -0500 http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0612/smoke_break.php You can watch new episodes of my gutter chat show Smoke Break every Wednesday at the Metro Times Music Blahg. But you can also bookmark this YouTube site for an archive of all episodes. Smoke Break: All Talk, No Action.... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0611/dudes_of_the_corn.php Check out this week's Metro Times. It's my first Music Issue as music editor, and includes stories on Great Lakes Myth Society and John Speck of The Fags, as well as a bunch of Detroit music reviewed. All in all... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0611/rumsfeld_to_star_in.php From my Google Chat program. See below. My Pal Rob T. and I, inspired by Rumsfeld's retirement. Dude can't leave our pop culture radar; please, not yet. (He can leave the gov't, though; we have no problem with that.) As... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0609/a_different_kind_of.php "A Different Kind of Tension: Trajectory, meaning and discovery in Detroit's noise music scene": Noise music gets a bad rap as being too volatile and oppressive. It's often maligned as an out-there genre pursued only by those lost souls... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0608/it_covers_the_hillsides.php I've started a blog off Metro Times' Web site; it's called the Music Blahg and will feature content additional to MT's regular music section, as well as stuff that in the past you might have read as leads or blurbs... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0608/bust_the_deal_face.php Everything is making me thirsty. Bittersweet Symphony - J Dilla's final word is too profound for just one review "It sounds unfinished, and I guess that's the saddest thing. You get engrossed in the brassy, funky "Love Jones" and then... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0608/craig_finn_is_checking.php I'm really angry that road construction prevented my catching Sleater-Kinney's set at Lollapalooza '06 ("Lolla Lolla Lollapalooza, Please - The crapness, the greatness, and the hammered, ball-grabbing Wolfmotherness of it all" ). They're such a great band, and I think... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0607/for_a_smile_they.php Shellac is touring this August and September, which is cool. I hope Weston does a question and answer session, and that everyone wears grey coveralls. But wait a minute, no Detroit date? And instead of a Detroit date, there's a... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0607/i_burn_to_a.php The new wristband: W.W.DMX.D? The networks are dead to us this summer, each of them preoccupied with "America's Got....A Serious Dearth of Talent"-type embarrasments. So it's up to basic cable to save prime time, and it's coming through. Best by... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0607/revenge_of_the_hittites.php From the record company boilerplate: "Enter 2006 and Deadsy returns with their signature sound, termed 'undercore,' yet has taken their musical odyssey to another level. Their ability to create a perfect dichotomy between eerie and beautiful is most apparent on... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0607/timbalake.php Timbaland's having the best summer ever. Nelly's "Promiscuous" owned the first part, with apologies to Shakira and 'Clef. But with Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack," Tim's gone essentially psycho. It's two parts played against each other like baying hounds on drugs, and... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0606/ikea_turner.php I've been listening to Cansei de Ser Sexy's Sub Pop debut again and again. I'm going to lobby the casino across the street from my office to broadcast it on their loudspeaker, so all the elderly folks waiting for tourbuses... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0605/mike_thunderpants_protzker.php (Looking in rearview) "Too far?" (Nervous) "Yeah." (Nodding) "Sure." ................ Fela's Children - The rise of Afro-Beat from Nigerian roots to Detroit and your ringtone. ................ SSM - SSM (Alive) "The real thrill of SSM isn't in what it revives,... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0605/im_james_bond_in.php An update of recent stories and things from my work for Metro Times, for all you out-of-towners. I'm looking at you, Jack Lemmon. ........ Arena Rock: Behind the music with the Pistons audio knob-twiddler Steve Conway The Fantastic 4: Why... http://johnny.gloriousnoise.com/0604/lachey_nodded_at_pickler.php Saturday night, 1:20am, over by the steps: “Who’s that guy over there?” “Oh, he’s Klein’s friend.” “What’s his story?” “Well, I heard a drove a freelance party wagon for awhile, but then he had to pull it into the roundhouse...