Our friends at Glorious Noise are celebrating their fifth birthday this weekend with music, costumes and a new album by the band Riviera. more ›

Back in April, local band Riviera (who record for Glorious Noise Records) headed up to Detroit to take part in MC2, a northern version of South by Southwest. The band’s ultimately fruitless efforts to play a single show were detailed in an account posted to GLONO by Riviera band member Derek Phillips. Almost archetypical in its description of gross mismanagement by the organizers and the rampant rock star ego of the former lead singer of Sponge, we wondered if Riviera was experiencing some kind of karmic payback for the treatment of the MC5 by the Chicago police during the 1968 Democratic convention. more ›

The second album from both Chicago rock quintet Riviera and its label Glorious Noise Records gets the big-time release party treatment this Saturday. We’ve been grooving on a preview copy of At The End Of The American Century... for the last couple weeks and it should come at little surprise to those who’ve been following the story that it's a pastiche of the various cultural touchstones that get hashed out on the GLONO bulletin boards every day. more ›

If you missed Buster Keaton’s The General back in December, you could head down to your local Blockbuster, ask for a copy, and get a blank stare in return. Or you could stop in at your local independent and suffer through a poorly transferred print. So why not do the smart thing and head over to Block Cinema and see a nice, clean, 35 mm print this Saturday night at 8 PM? Need another reason? How about accompaniment by Quasar Wut-Wut from Glorious Noise Records? Plain ol’ piano is sooooo early 20th century. more ›

With all the growth in new technology and media mergers alike, it’s both easier and more important than ever to create, not just consume. As we head into the unofficial start of the weekend (is it OK to start the weekend on Thursday night or does that kind of thing become gauche after you leave college?), two events illustrate the possibilities: more ›