Posts Tagged ‘hero’

Girl Freaks at Insistence That Rushs 2112 Will Change Her

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Trisha Comstock, a high school Senior from Two Rivers, Wisconsin reportedly told her best friend Sawyer? - named after Rushs famous song Tom Sawyer? - that shes totally freaking? about Sawyers Dads insistence that she sit through all twenty minutes and thirty-three seconds of Rushs 2112 because it will change her life forever?

Nieder’s wife Sissy backs his claim saying “it was what set Wally apart from the other guys in Two Rivers. He could really do it like it sounds, like he’s really playing the drums.” Sissy added,…

Top 10 American Bands

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

A well written and insightful countdown of the top 10 American Bands.

A lot of my friends are Ween fans that I can not talk to about Ween. The die-hard have taken silly inside jokes and twisted them into some strange free-base religion that is only fully understood if you attend mass on mushrooms. I lack…

Guitar Hero, Rock Band and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Mo

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

The booming success of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises has dropped a bomb on the music biz

Activision insists it obtained proper licensing to include the song in the game, and says the band is on a fishing expedition. “What they did was file for a preliminary injunction over the Thanksgiving holiday trying to disrupt sales of…

Metallica to bloggers: don’t review our music

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Metallica demands that early reviews of six tracks from its new album be removed… after the band invites journalists to come listen to them.

Metallica's management and PR team knew who the (anonymous) writer of the piece was, as they invited him; if they chose to do so, they could probably make his livelihood more difficult to earn in the future. The Quietus decided to…

Rock Band meets iTunes, opens built-in music store

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

The new software update allows gamers to buy new musical tracks, released weekly, without having to use the Xbox Live front end.

Ars Technica has downloaded the update and tested it; the interface is slick and easy to use. It really does feel like you're shopping for music, and gamers are hungry for the constant content updates to the rhythm game. This presents a…

eJamming: Skype for Musicians

Monday, February 11th, 2008

eJamming makes software that enables people to practice music together 1000 miles apart. The idea is to let musicians practice together even when they can’t get together physically, or to let students and teachers work together remotely.

Beyond Binary by Ina Fried A look at how technology is changing our lives and the people behind all that life-changing stuff.