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Rock Band (Video Game)

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Local Japan benefits: Video gaming, taiko drumming and a hip-hop compilation

    ​If you've been inclined to pitch in for the victims of the Japanese earthquake but haven't known how to do it, there are a few different options this week. One involves playing Rock Band on stage, one involves chip tunes, another involves Taiko drumming and still another is for fans of hip-ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Guitar Hero franchise overdoses and dies

    ​In a statement alongside it's quarterly and annual fiscal report, Activision, the company behind the Guitar Hero series, effectively put the axe on the series. Over the course of the last two years, the series has seen dropping sales due to a market that's completely saturated and an expensiv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Soundgarden cheats its way to a Platinum release: Here are five more bands that could use the boost

    ​ Soundgarden was just certified Platinum for sales of its best-of album, Telephantasm (which, incidentally, has the worst cover art of the year, beating out Hurley by a long shot) generated in one day. On the surface, this sounds like one hell of an accomplishment, until you read the fine pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Move over, Guitar Hero and Rock Band, Power Gig is made for real aspiring guitarists

    ​ In case the heated debate between music games being viewed as a teaching tool or as a hindrance wasn't convoluted enough, a new guitar related peripheral is attempting to make its way into the already crowded and slightly confusing market. Meet Seven 45 Studios' Power Gig: Rise of the Six S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Kotaku's Child's Play Fundraiser lets gamers rock out for a cause -- and goodies

    DJ Hero​Denverite Brian Crecente is sort of the Rupert Murdoch of video games. As the editor-in-chief of the influential video game blog Kotaku, Crecente, a former Rocky Mountain News scribe, was recently named of the twenty most influential people in the video-game industry by GamePro magazin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    Q&A with Joe Bithorn of Beatles tribute band Rain

    Joe Bithorn as George Harrison​New York City native Joe Bithorn plays the role of George Harrison in Rain, one of the most popular and well-known Beatles tribute bands in the country (appearing September 22 to 27 at the Buell Theater. Raised with a steady diet of classical, jazz, blues and psy ... More >>

  • Music

    September 3, 2009

    Walk like an Egyptian to Club Ra

    Joe Bithorn as George Harrison​New York City native Joe Bithorn plays the role of George Harrison in Rain, one of the most popular and well-known Beatles tribute bands in the country (appearing September 22 to 27 at the Buell Theater. Raised with a steady diet of classical, jazz, blues and psy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Everything is ridiculous at the Air Guitar Championship

    Kiernan MaletskyWinner Big Rig gets some love. At the regional Air Guitar Championship, everything is ridiculous. There's a guy onstage wearing a fur vest and a rhinestone handgun belt buckle, taking shots of Jack Daniels and diddling the air three inches in front of his crotch. But the most ridicu ... More >>

  • Film

    June 4, 2009

    Anvil! The Story of Anvil

    Kiernan MaletskyWinner Big Rig gets some love. At the regional Air Guitar Championship, everything is ridiculous. There's a guy onstage wearing a fur vest and a rhinestone handgun belt buckle, taking shots of Jack Daniels and diddling the air three inches in front of his crotch. But the most ridicu ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    June 12, 2008

    Hero We Go Again

    Fake-instrument overload offers plenty to fret about.

  • Home Entertainment

    May 29, 2008

    Nintendo's Wii Fit ignites yet another fitness fad.

    Fake-instrument overload offers plenty to fret about.

  • Home Entertainment

    March 13, 2008

    Pounding Headache

    Patapon marches to the same damned drummer, over and over again.

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2007

    Hide the Beer, the Pastor's Here!

    Patapon marches to the same damned drummer, over and over again.

  • Home Entertainment

    December 20, 2007

    Xmas Present & Past

    How yesterday's games spawned today's bestsellers.

  • Home Entertainment

    December 13, 2007

    Almost Famous

    It's never been easier to start your own (fake) band.

  • Home Entertainment

    November 15, 2007

    Shred Cred

    You wanted the best, you got the best: Guitar Hero III.

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