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Harmonix Interested In Selling Music Too
Harmonix has been selling a lot of music tracks for Rock Band and Rock Band 2 for a couple years now. This week they mentioned they would also be interested in selling the corresponding music tracks with the Downloadable Content Songs. Ars technica got the scoop at CES this week. If you had the option [...]
Continue reading...Warning: Lips Mic Not Cross Game Compatible
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
There was a time in the not to distant past where music game peripherals were not cross game compatible, but with the current iteration of Guitar Hero: World Tour, Rock Band 2, and Rock Revolution the developers and publishers involved listened to the consumers complaints about having to repeatedly buy new plastic instruments with each [...]
Continue reading...Little Big Planet – The Song That Caused Its Delay – It’s Catchy
Monday, October 20, 2008
Just for the folks that didn’t know… it’s sort of non-news, but Little Big Planet was slated to be released this month and due to a song included in the game making 2 references to the Qur’an, Muslims were upset with the use of that song from the game and requested that Sony remove it. I’m [...]
Continue reading...Web 2.0: Content Delivery Monopolies for All! (Google, Amazon, Apple)
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
It was announced yesterday that YouTube (Google) is partnering with both Amazon and Apple to begin selling video games and music respectively. The idea is that content on YouTube identified as belonging to a certain video game or song would be associated with what amounts to a “Buy it Now” button that would take you over [...]
Continue reading...Local Music Presents: Preston Lee – However Bottomless
Thursday, October 2, 2008
This is from local artist, Preston Lee, who produced this piece for a relative’s band (Woolgathering) as well as playing the organ track (wait for the solos!) in 2006. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Direct Download Local Music Presents The “Break it Down” Blog wants to help support local musicians and artists. While we are bringing you [...]
Continue reading...Local Music Presents: Preston Lee – Fight On (Remix)
Saturday, September 27, 2008
This is from local artist, Preston Lee, from 1996 after an initial mix warrented some minor changes. He describes the piece as: Another punchcard-style Scream Tracker track attempting to recreate human-like musical expressiveness entirely through programmed commands. The guitar solos took a really, really long time to input. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Direct Download Local Music [...]
Continue reading...Rock Band 2 Drum Pictures
Friday, September 5, 2008
Kotaku is rocking the Rock Band 2 news as they got a set of the drums in and snapped off some great shots of them up close, far away and comparing the two (Rock Band 1 vs Rock Band 2) drum sets. Overall the Rock Band 2 drum set looks about 15% bigger pads, Kotaku claims [...]
Continue reading...Amazon MP3 Download Service Review
Friday, September 5, 2008
After growing increasingly unimpressed with the Apple iTunes/iPod “lock-in” model I started hunting around for alternative low-cost music services online. Fortunately one of the first and favorite services I ran into is the relatively new Amazon MP3 Downloads service. Some of the big highlights of the Amazon MP3 service for me were: Non-DRM’ed music Low-cost music (about $0.99 [...]
Continue reading...Local Music Presents: Preston Lee – Drown (Radioactive Mix)
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
This is from local artist, Preston Lee, who put together this mix over time, mixing and remixing it since 2000 to current date. He describes the piece as: A constantly evolving dream of slowly drowning in a pool of water. Originally conceived as an acoustic guitar solo played in bell tones, it was moved to electronic [...]
Continue reading...Local Music Presents: Preston Lee – Christmas At War
Monday, August 18, 2008
This is from local artist, Preston Lee, who put together this mix at Christmas time; pissed off about the Iraq war. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Direct Download Local Music Presents The “Break it Down” Blog wants to help support local musicians and artists. While we are bringing you bits and pieces from Arizona’s local artists we [...]
Continue reading...Top Spin 3 Review (PS3)
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Summary [7.5 out of 10] Top Spin 3 offers a deep tennis experience for players willing to learn the more complex control mechanisms while casual players can mostly still enjoy a quick game of tennis. A limited soundtrack, average graphics/environments and a limited licensed roster keep this title from shining as brightly as it could. Outline Introduction Player Creation [...]
Continue reading...Rock Band 2 Confirmed Artist and Song Track List
Saturday, July 12, 2008
We have been covering Rock Band 2 (more) and Guitar Hero: World Tour (more) mercilessly with the impending war looming between the two franchises. One of the most popular questions that keeps coming up so far is about the artist and song lists for Rock Band 2 and Gutiar Hero: World Tour. We continue to report [...]
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