We live in a zoo. We look like a monkey. And we smell like one too.

Believe it or not, it’s been two years since we posted the first posts to Glorious Noise. Last year, we rang in our birthday with a redesign and a concert. This year, we’ll probably roll out a new design in bits in pieces over the next several months.

It’s been quite a year. We caused a bit of hoopla back in May when we dug out some public records and posted them online, Smoking Gun style. This got us mentioned in the NME, Ananova, and even E! Online. USA Today designated us a Hot Site and good, old Yahoo said we were New and Notable. Blogger called us a Blog of Note (and then a couple of weeks later we switched to a different content management system… doh!).

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It was one year ago today that we started this thing. How do you like the new look? Expect more changes over the next several weeks as we work out some new features.

One thing you’ll notice is the ad. It took us a year to burn through our initial round of venture capital, and now we’re going to have to get some money. We hope you don’t think it’s too obtrusive. At the same time, we really do hope you support anyone who buys an ad on Glorious Noise. Once we get things rolling, you can expect one ad per month. That’s it. If you know of anybody who might be interested in an ad, send them here.

This new layout relies pretty heavily on some newer web features, so you may need to upgrade for the full effect. If you can’t do that, you can always use the mobile version which works on Palms, cell phones and other personal devices with web browsers.

Anyway, that’s what’s new. Feel free to let us know what you think about the new look.