So Rock Band 3 is including keyboard support in its RAWWWWWK armory, and here's a short video full of Harmonix dudes showing how the thing works. Truth be told, it looks pretty damn fun, particularly when playing ...
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Rock Band 3 is set to feature 83 songs spanning five decades, along with new gameplay features such as keyboard support and an advanced "Pro" mode where you can learn to play real instruments.
Included in the tracklist ...
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This really won't matter to anyone outside of the U.S. and Canada but new streaming music entrant Rdio finally went public as you may have been able to tell from the flurry of posts about it late ...
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Impossible-to-pronounce Swedish band Rymdreglage don't do things by halves. For their third single, '8-bit Trip', the musical duo decided to create a tribute to retro gaming, in the form of a stop motion music video made entirely ...
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This groundbreaking 1959 album is as close to perfection as jazz gets without sacrificing its spontaneity
This article was written by John Fordham, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 5th July 2010 14.35 UTCI had hoped that a blog on ...
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While Queen are no strangers to music videogames - Queen songs have appeared in Rock Band and LEGO Rock Band - they've only had one band-centric game based around them - SingStar Queen. Which misses the point, ...
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Man people can get upset by the strangest things but then I say that not having heard these vuvuzela things that everyone is complaining about. From what I have read though, there has been talk about trying ...
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UPDATE: New video at the bottom! Scrolllllllll down.
If you're one of the crowd who feel Guitar Hero has become too samey, publisher Activision may be hoping these dramatically redesigned guitar controllers drag you back. Guitar Hero: Warriors ...
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Yes, this is happening. Plans have been unveiled for a videogame based on iconic '70s musical Grease. Publisher of exploitative Wii shovelware 505 Games will be bringing this treat to the masses, and has said it will ...
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Keyboards or pianos might not be the most RAAWWWWK of instruments, but it looks like they will appear in Rock Band 3.
A new demo for Rock Band: Green Day recently launched on Xbox Live, along with a ...
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Looks like Activision is sick of legal wrangles with famous musicians who appear in the company's Guitar Hero franchise, because Guitar Hero 6 will contain NO playable celebrities.
Last year, Guitar Hero 5 was released with a playable ...
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Green Day will become the second band to get their very own version of Rock Band when Green Day: Rock Band launches later this year. Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that the game will hit stores ...
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Oh, I know, my second Rock Band story of the day, but this is legitimately big enough to warrant a mention, because pop queen du jour Lady Gaga is coming to Rock Band. Oh, and Eric Cartman.
Harmonix ...
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Even though Rock Band 3 was always as likely as 2011 following 2010, let's just press ahead with the "news" that Rock Band 3 will be here for this Holiday season.
This tidbit was confirmed today via the ...
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Courtesy of Pogo, also known as Nick Bertke, we get this great musical remix called Skynet Symphonic which is made up entirely from sounds found in Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
Enjoy
via Neatorama
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"i think Kurt would despise this game alone let alone this avatar."
So said Courtney Love on how she thought Kurt Cobain may perceive his digital likeness in Guitar Hero 5. The above claim was tweeted by Love ...
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The LP Generation
I grew up in the vinyl generation. No I don't mean anything kinky, so get your minds out of the gutter. For me; and the rest of my generation, the vinyl LP was the audio equivalent ...
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Shadowbeamz is a company which specializes in creating "laser" based music for both the consumer and professional music industries and they showed off their consumer version this week at CES 2010.
The concept is simple enough, users plug ...
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Activision is working on a follow-up to DJ Hero, its Guitar Hero spin-off that nobody bought.
We're not supposed to know about the sequel, but loose-lipped French DJ David Guetta let the cat out of the bag in ...
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What is it with big buck musicians and record companies, are they all just brain-dead and think that by blaming everything on music piracy that it justifies their stupidity and lack of any understanding of how to ...
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For the past four years here in the UK, the top of the music singles chart has assumed a predictable shape, with the annual winner of Simon Cowell's X Factor TV show grabbing the coveted Christmas #1 ...
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I'll put you out of your misery right off the bat. The musical instrument is called the Eigenharp and it has to be one of the coolest ideas to come along in my opinion for a musical ...
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