Rita: Welcome to The Noise’s first online-only issue. Lolita: We’ll be back to stain your hands with ink and provide your birdcages with inexpensive wall-to-wall carpeting in April. But for now, peer into the glowing box and learn a little more about the people who play rock in New England. Rita: Lolita, do you have any ideas for the Question of the Month? Lolita: When people don’t know what to say they usually talk about the weather. Rita: That’s not a bad idea. Put on your sparkly pink coat and get outside and ask everyone: “What’s your take on global warming?” Lolita: But it’s freezing out. Rita: Just think, without global warming, it would be colder out there…