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Rock Band 2 Confirmed Artist and Song Track List

Saturday, July 12, 2008

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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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Rock Band 2 Drums Unchanged, But Can Be Extended for $$$?

Friday, July 11, 2008

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In our coverage of the inevitable world-ending battle that will ensue when both Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour come out, we have covered everything from the drums, to the guitars, to the song and artist lineups, to the game features themselves. (Pictured: Guitar Hero: World Tour wireless drum set with cymbals) One of the [...]

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Rock Band 2 Song List Preview

Thursday, July 3, 2008

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Update #1: Here’s the official complete confirmed Rock Band 2 artist and song list! During G4 TV’s preview run of Rock Band 2, some forum goers over at ScoreHero Forums snagged a screenshot of part of the song-list screen. Kotaku further broke it down with a best-guess of artists backing the song list, and we have: “Panic [...]

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Rock Band 2 May Get “Radically Different” Music Creation Tools

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

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News is trickling out that while Guitar Hero: World Tour will pioneer the custom-music-creation tooling for “band gaming”, Rock Band 2 won’t have the feature out of the gate but may add something “radically different” down the road to the game. So as we get closer to these September and October release dates for the two [...]

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Artist Lineup for Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2

Saturday, June 28, 2008

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With the internet abuzz with questions like “Will Guitar Hero: World Tour be better than Rock Band?” and seeing that Rock Band 2 is right around the corner to bring another refresh to the winning franchise… the real question is which franchise do you want to get hooked into? Music line-up is probably one of the [...]

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Still Alive!

Sunday, February 24, 2008

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If your as big of a fan of Portal as we are, you all know what the “Still alive” song is. This week it was announced that the song will be available for Rock Bank. Well at the Game Developers Conference on Friday, Jonathan Coulton performed a live demo. http://www.vimeo.com/722062

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Music Using Windows Sounds Only

Sunday, February 17, 2008

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This is pretty awesome, it’s music created using simply the system sounds from a Windows install. I was surprised how cool it could still sound… like music is 80% beat and 20% actual sounds? I guess that is why Stomp is able to exist? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsU3B0W3TMs

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DRM’ed Music is Dead - Long Live Amazon!

Monday, January 14, 2008

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Todd Swarthout sent in news about the kickass announcement that Amazon’s MP3 service now offers DRM-free music from all 4 of the major music labels as of January 10th! Sony BMG Warner EMI Universal Music This is in a followup to the news we reported on Amazon recently securing contracts with Sony BMG and Sony BMG, before that, decided DRM [...]

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Sony Offers DRM-Free Music on Amazon’s MP3 Service

Sunday, January 13, 2008

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New York Times reports that Sony continues to lead the anti-DRM charge (did I just write that?!) and has announced that it will start offering DRM-free downloads of it music on Amazon’s MP3 service. The beauty of this decision is that Apple’s DRM-laden music from iTunes only plays on their associated iPod devices (and iPhone), [...]

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Radiohead’s “Name Your Price” Album Makes $6-10 Million

Saturday, October 20, 2007

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This is just too kick-ass to hold in (P.S.> Fuck you RIAA) but Radiohead, the band that decided to go out on a limb and do a name-your-price download of their new album “In Rainbows” has reportedly made $6-10 million on the album. How the program worked is Radiohead setup a site for their new album [...]

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Removing iTunes DRM

Friday, September 7, 2007

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You curious how to rip Apple’s iTunes DRM out of the music you’ve bought and have limited rights to? Click on over and get some ideas. Summary: Got a Mac? FairGame Got a PC? QTFairUse6

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The Spice Girls Reunite

Friday, June 29, 2007

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What the F… the Spice Girls are getting back together =/

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iTunes DRM-Free Music Embeds Account Information

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

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Very interesting post over on TUAW. It looks like the DRM-free music you can download from iTunes now (and hopefully growing in the future) is not something you would likely want to throw up on a torrent site anytime soon, mostly due to the fact that the mp4 file contains your personal information in it. Erica [...]

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RIAA Claims Royalties on Any Music Streamed on Internet

Sunday, April 29, 2007

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Slashdot is running a piece on the RIAA and SoundExchange (owned/run by RIAA) and how they have somehow worked into to god-knows-where a law that SoundExchange can collect, in escrow, royalties for any music broadcast online and then hold that money. Naturally the performer, even if they never wanted to charge in the first place, can [...]

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My Take on the Zune

Friday, September 15, 2006

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Wait for version 2.0 unless you are dying to have a mobile media device. While I’m actually a bit more impressed with the launch then I thought I would be however many months ago it was when the information was leaked, in my gut I think there will be a lot of usabililty issues to [...]

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