So here it is, the first episode of the Buzz Media’s new podcast the Gentlemen Radio. This episode, while epic, is our dry run/proof of concept first effort so there are some rough edges and format issues to iron out. In this installment the Gentlemen tackle the movie with the highest grossing first and second weekend of [...]
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Pop Music Rewritten in Orchestral Scores
What happens when you take your favorite pop songs (whether it be Bad Romance or Living on a Prayer) add a talented and passionate orchestra musician (Walt Ribeiro) then put the whole thing in the oven and bake it? You get For Orchestra. Walt, with the help of a passionate music community, has combined his [...]
DJ’ing with Your iPad
I’m always amazed at how quickly new hardware is adapted to things I’d never think they would be adapted to. Here is some DJ mixing software for the iPad (via Schammy) you can use as a control panel I guess instead of a mixing board? I don’t know the lingo… it just looks neat:
Favorite Ambient Instrumental Radio Station for Work
I wanted to make this post because as highly distractable person who likes music, I almost always work in deafening silence. As much as I like music, I cannot work with it on because anytime a catchy tune comes on my brain refocuses its attention on the music instead of what I’m suppose to be doing. For [...]
Secret Music Hidden Within the da Vinci's 'The Last Supper'
Thanks to Marc Chung for sending over a link to a great Cracked article on hidden easter eggs (secrets) in real-life art. One of the easter eggs is supposedly the “hidden musical notes” inside of Lenoardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” piece. The claim is that if you overlay a standard 5-bar musical notation graph across the [...]
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 [...]
Take on Me Music Video: The Literal Version
Thanks to Preston Lee for sending this one in. Starts off a bit “meh” with the literal observations, but gets better. Pipe Wrench Fight is awesome:
Warning: Lips Mic Not Cross Game Compatible
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 [...]
Little Big Planet – The Song That Caused Its Delay – It's Catchy
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. [...]
Web 2.0: Content Delivery Monopolies for All! (Google, Amazon, Apple)
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 [...]
Rock Band 2 Drum Pictures
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 [...]
Amazon MP3 Download Service Review
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 [...]
Why? Why? Why?
Why won’t *Nsync get back together? I love *Nsync. Notice that I didn’t say, “I LOVED *Nsync.” I realize that is a bold admission from someone wishing to be taken seriously…well…at ALL, but hear me out. When *Nsync was on top of their game, cranking out their wonderfully gooey brand of soft-core pop ejaculate, I [...]
That 50s Diner Feel
I despise cigarette smoke. Unless I’m at a casino. Then it just feels right. Breathing that shit in. Mmm. Where’s that 70-year-old cocktail lady with my Scotch? If a gambler sits next to me at the slots with a Lucky Strike or a Chesterfield lit up, I turn to him or her and say, “Welcome, [...]
Top Spin 3 Review (PS3)
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. [...]
Rock Band 2 Confirmed Artist and Song Track List
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 [...]
Rock Band 2 Drums Unchanged, But Can Be Extended for $$$?
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 [...]
Rock Band 2 Song List Preview
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 [...]
Rock Band 2 May Get "Radically Different" Music Creation Tools
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 [...]
Artist Lineup for Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2
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 [...]
Still Alive!
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.
Music Using Windows Sounds Only
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?
DRM'ed Music is Dead – Long Live Amazon!
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 [...]
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