Addicted To Noise
Addicted to Noise was an online music magazine in the early days of the internet. Founded in 1994 by ex-RollingStone associate editor and senior writer Michael Goldberg and online music pioneer Jon Luini, it published its first issue in December 1994 and was the first online magazine to include audio samples alongside new album reviews. It was acquired by Viacom in 1999 after which it was closed.
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List of articles in the library
American Music Club: Q&A with American Music Club
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Addicted To Noise, November 1993
"EIGHT MONTHS AGO nobody would pee on us," says Mark Eitzel, singer, songwriter and acoustic guitarist for San Francisco's American Music Club. "And now people ...
American Music Club: Wishing the World Away
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Addicted To Noise, December 1994
THE FIRST TIME I met American Music Club singer, songwriter, and leader Mark Eitzel, he arrived at San Francisco's boho South-of-Market Soma Cafe on a ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Addicted To Noise, 1995
Had it not been for the stiff on line in front of me at the microphone in Avery Fisher Hall at September's CMJ convention in ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Addicted To Noise, October 1995
SAN FRANCISCO — The Mars/Hershey candy company recently added robin's egg blue to their bouquet of M&M candy colors. To most of us, that would ...
Randy Newman: The Devil Made Him Do It: Randy Newman
Interview by Roy Trakin, Addicted To Noise, 31 October 1995
"IT'S HARD TO keep a good man down" goes the refrain to one of the songs on Randy Newman's musical version of the Goethe tale, ...
Interview by Roy Trakin, Addicted To Noise, 1996
YOU COULD SAY Bad Religion have something to prove. The veteran L.A. punk band are survivors of the West Coast's second great wave, the early ...
Pearl Jam: Stone Soup: Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Addicted To Noise, 2 March 1996
PEARL JAM'S Stone Gossard is not quite the man I expected, when you consider that he's a member of one of the most popular and ...
Garbage: Fillmore, San Francisco
Live Review by Clare Kleinedler, Addicted To Noise, May 1996
THE NAME GARBAGE, for a band, is so, um...cartoon-like. That name is like the ACME of all band names...like you could completely see Angela of ...
Radiohead: Don't Call 'Em Britpop
Interview by Clare Kleinedler, Addicted To Noise, May 1996
BRITPOP. IT'S ALL over the place – all of a sudden. There's Oasis, the Beatles' rip-offs trying to emulate the Rolling Stones' drug-taking, groupie-filled past. ...
Sneaker Pimps' American Soft Shoe
Interview by Clare Kleinedler, Addicted To Noise, July 1996
If it's all about timing, then the British trio the Sneaker Pimps will be huge. Their first US tour came at a time when Americans ...
Weezer's Uncomfortable Success, part 1
Report and Interview by Clare Kleinedler, Addicted To Noise, December 1996
WEEZER SINGER/guitarist Rivers Cuomo is a bit nervous. The stretch limousine we are riding in has just pulled up to the Fillmore Auditorium in San ...
Weezer's Uncomfortable Success, part 2: The Rivers Cuomo Interview
Interview by Clare Kleinedler, Michael Goldberg, Addicted To Noise, December 1996
WEEZER FRONTMAN Rivers Cuomo doesn't give many interviews. Usually he lets guitarist Brian Bell, drummer Patrick Wilson or bassist Matt Sharp handle the press. The ...
Retrospective and Interview by Howard Wuelfing, Addicted To Noise, 6 January 1997
Michael Gira, leader of the influential but little-known band Swans, isn't just floating along with the current. He's controlling it. ...
Suede: London Suede's New Spirit
Interview by Clare Kleinedler, Addicted To Noise, April 1997
IT SEEMS THE London Suede is the band that everybody loves to hate. No matter how many records they sell, or how many venues they ...
Stone Temple Pilots, Talk Show: Talk Show Is No Band Side Project
Report and Interview by Clare Kleinedler, Addicted To Noise, 7 July 1997
Although he wouldn't go so far as to say Stone Temple Pilots are officially done with, bassist Robert DeLeo told ATN that every member of ...
Bettie Serveert: Eat Their Dust
Interview by Clare Kleinedler, Addicted To Noise, September 1997
IT IS ALMOST impossible to get the members of Bettie Serveert to talk seriously about anything. And strangely enough, the Dutch band is best known ...
The Dandy Warhols: Lounging Out With the Dandy Warhols
Interview by Clare Kleinedler, Addicted To Noise, 1998
With a new video and press hype, pressure is building to live up to expectations. But the Dandy Warhols prefer to find success by the ...
KRS-One Launches 'Hip-Hop Appreciation Week'
Report by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 9 February 1998
Rapper brings rap and music community together to raise awareness. ...
Jimmy Page/Robert Plant: Ex-Zeppelin Pilots Page & Plant Launch New LP
Interview by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 24 March 1998
NEW YORK – Robert Plant was in a playful mood, despite the fact that he had been waiting anxiously for his former Led Zeppelin cohort ...
Stevie Nicks: '98's Best: One A Stevie, Two A Stevie, Three A Stevie...
Report by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 13 May 1998
IN A CROWD of 500, you could count about 200 look-alike, sound-alike, dress-alike Stevies. But there's only one Stevie Nicks. ...
Profile by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 11 June 1998
ZZ TOP'S DRUMMER, Frank Beard, was born on this day in 1949 in Frankston, Texas. He began drumming in 1964 and formed ZZ Top, the ...
Prince: An Audience With The Artist
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Addicted To Noise, August 1998
THE SECURITY GUARD in suit and tie who is watching the closed door to The Artist's upstairs dressing room on The Tonight Show set in ...
Profile by Frank Tortorici, Addicted To Noise, 30 September 1999
ROBBY TAKAC is bassist/singer for the Goo Goo Dolls, the highly successful thrash-pop band best known for such smash ballads as 'Iris' and 'Name'. ...
Courtney Barnett: El Rey Theatre, L.A.
Live Review by Roy Trakin, Addicted To Noise, 10 November 2014
ROCK 'N' ROLL may be on its last legs, but it is still capable of providing an epiphany along its death spiral. Thank god for ...
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