Review: New Music-Based Video Games
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- Review: New Music-Based Video Games
- Estremera: A lesson in patience
- Ben Harper – Music – New York Times
- Rilo Kiley | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones and…
- Final note: Roy & Candy’s Music prepares to close its doors for…
- Finally! Whistling is cool again
Review: New Music-Based Video Games
FXNews – Aug 26, 2007
• Click here to visit FXNews. com’s Video Gaming Center. That changed with the 2005 release of Redctane’s “Guitar Hero. ” Suddenly every gamer had a fake Gibson connected to his PlayStation and plenty of music lovers who don’t usually play games got hooked as well. The creators of “Guitar Hero” are now developing “Rock Band” — which adds drums and vocals to the formula — for Electronic Arts and MTV Games. Activision is preparing “Guitar Hero III” for the holidays. And plenty of other studios have music games in the works.
Estremera: A lesson in patience
Sun.Star – Aug 26, 2007
But guitar-playing requires more than reading notes. It requires being able to press the strings to convert the notes from black dots on paper to actual sounds and pressing and strumming the strings in time with the beat to make music. And classical guitar music is something that those darn geniuses of the olden times have put together when there was still no computers and mixers and midis to help them along. Thus they created dots lots of dots sometimes over a hundred in less than ten measures running up and down staffs to be pressed and strummed by all your fingers almost at the same time to create layers of soothing music. Ugh!And thus came the painful lesson. In my impatience to be a good classical guitar player I was practicing daily. Not just regular practice but a minimum of five hours a day until well past midnight.
Ben Harper – Music – New York Times
New York Times – Aug 26, 2007
Harper’s eighth studio album “Lifeline” (Virgin) due out this week was a collaborative effort. The band created the music during sound checks before tour performances; then Mr. Harper would retire to his hotel and add lyrics. After wrapping up the last show they ended up recording in a 16-track studio in Paris. Harper 37 described the record as “not rock not folk not gospel but with all those elements included… Songs like “House Gone Up in Flames” and “ne Man Revolution” they stay with you. He’s one of the great guitar heroes of my generation. To hear him on a nylon string guitar after electric for so many years is super-inspiring. Money MarkMoney Mark a k a Mark Ramos-Nishita has been the “fourth Beastie Boy” for going on a decade or more now. But this is just part of the story. The cat is purely a soul music assassin. He’s a multi-instrumentalist and plays them all with authority and sensitivity.
Rilo Kiley | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones and…
MTV.com – Aug 26, 2007
RecordsLike their West Coast contemporaries Death Cab for Cutie Rilo Kiley steadily gained traction in indie pop circles throughout the late ’90s and early 2000s before the record industry (and public at large) officially took note. Led by former child actors Jenny Lewis (vocals guitar keyboards)… The band supported their debut by hitting the road during which they were introduced to maha native Tim Kasher (. Both of Kasher’s bands were signed to maha’s Saddle Creek Records whose solid roster and promise of creative freedom attracted Rilo Kiley’s interest. Although the exclusive label had rarely opened its doors to bands outside of maha’s city limits they nevertheless signed Rilo Kiley and released the band’s twangy sophomore effort The Execution of All Things in ctober 2002. After touring with the likes of.
Final note: Roy & Candy’s Music prepares to close its doors for…
Tulsa World – Aug 26, 2007
leadp { font-size:14px; color:#626466; }The sign outside reading that everythingmust go by Aug. Along with the guitar amps and drumkits a music tradition that has extended farbeyond guitar lessons and discounts on picksmust go too. When Roy & Candy?s Music closes nextweek so goes the average music fan?s door toTulsa?s rich heritage in Western swing. Unless you?re already acquainted withTulsa?s Western swing scene and its playersfew are the thoroughfares to access the talesabout gigs played at what was Tulsa?s endlessstring of bars and music clubs where thoseinspired by the Wills brothers ruled. For 37 years Roy Ferguson has stoodbehind the counter of Roy & Candy?s Musicwith his family waiting for your questions? about working with Johnnie Lee Willsabout his own band about the musicians he?shad the pleasure to work with.
Finally! Whistling is cool again
Boston Globe – Aug 26, 2007
That’s how it plays in Boston. A year after the song was first released folks young and old are still whistling it like mad: on subway cars and street corners; at house parties and in dance clubs. At some music venues like Great Scott in Allston “Young Folks” has turned the puckered lip into as much of a symbol of the indie pop scene as fist-pumping is at a punk concert or moshing is at a hard-core show. Jeffrey Sullivan a 27-year-old travel consultant from Somerville has been swept up by “Young Folks” whistlemania. He whistles the song in the shower on bike rides at nightspots. He constantly notices the song breezing by him from others on the sidewalk in the office. “It’s a carefree song” Sullivan says… “That’s because the utter freshness of the sound along with memories of whistling it might trigger causes a body to bolt to attention when the song plays. “It will grab a lot of parts of the brain” says Suzanne Hanser chair of Berklee’s music therapy department. Also though not all of us can play along with a guitar or piano solo most can whistle. The ability to hear the tune over and over and over by whistling it is another reason why the song stays stuck in our heads. “The very repetition hardwires it onto our brain” Hanser says. Even those unfamiliar with the never-ending “Young Folks” effect seem smitten with the song the first time they give a listen. Adena Atkins a 24-year-old songwriting major at Berklee hadn’t heard the song until a reporter recently played the “Young Folks” music video for her lyric-writing class.
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