Beyond Guitar Hero
The News Review:
- Beyond Guitar Hero
- Fans recall death of Buddy Holly and ‘the day the music died’
- Music Review Salsa Timba and a Dance-Happy String Quartet
- Microsoft’s Songsmith better for comedy than music
- Just don’t call it grunge
- Adele’s voice belies her age
- The music never died
Beyond Guitar Hero
PC Magazine
In Guitar Rising still under development by GameTank the player strums an actual electric guitar (not included) that’s connected to either a Mac or PC via a USB adapter a microphone or the sound card. The player is cued by the game’s visuals following rock chord sequences and streaming notes to play actual melodies and rhythms. Players can participate at five levels of difficulty and they can slow down the beats per minute in order to learn at their own pace. The Web site says that beginner levels are designed for non-guitar players while harder levels will challenge even experienced guitarists.
Fans recall death of Buddy Holly and ‘the day the music died’
Detroit Free Press United States
17 that includes a cover of Holly’s “Not Fade Away. ” And younger music fans are discovering classic rock in greater numbers as the songs flow freely from iTunes and other online digital sources. Valens is revered for his guitar technique and as the prototypical Latino rocker who anticipated the careers of everybody from Santana to Los Lobos and Los Lonely Boys. The Bopper wrote country music hits for other artists and is credited with creating the first distinct music video. “They are all different but of the same era — pioneers artists that really did catch the ear of the world not just America” says Terry Stewart president of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. The Bopper has yet to join Holly and Valens as an official Rock Hall inductee but the museum is coproducing a series of events at the Surf to commemorate the enduring influence of all three artists. Back in 1959 the Winter Dance Party served first and foremost as a teen dance that left the adult world unmoved — much in the same way that today’s Disney heartthrob chart-toppers the Jonas Brothers while not poised for artistic impact on a par with Holly play to a predominantly teen fan base.
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Music Review Salsa Timba and a Dance-Happy String Quartet
New York Times United States
Four members of his group strolled down the center aisle playing and singing then taking root in a rumba circle on the dance floor near the stage. Next the white-suited Mr. Grau bald and skinny and luminous with energy entered from the side with a guitar singing a countermelody and claiming another spot. The first four drifted over to him and were joined by others; a trumpeter on the balcony accompanied with solos quoting.
Microsoft’s Songsmith better for comedy than music
The Associated Press
Designed to enable even the musically unskilled to craft their own tunes Songsmith has become particularly effective for converting popular songs into a new strain of comedic viral videos. In the spirit of “Guitar Hero” and other musical video games that turn mere mortals into rock stars Songsmith provides an automatic musical accompaniment to whatever vocal track the user provides. The idea (demonstrated in a mock infomercial at. But other users have sicced Soundsmith on vocals ripped from hit records and that’s where the real fun begins.
Just don’t call it grunge
guardian.co.uk UK
Dinosaur Pile-Up are at the forefront of what may turn out to be the year’s most unlikely musical development: grungy music from in and around Leeds. The original American grunge bands fused rock with a punk aesthetic in a revolt against the “hair metal” bands that had been the dominant form of hard rock over the preceding few years. It seems their Yorkshire successors are also reacting to something: the “New Yorkshire” sound that has dominated guitar music in the north for the last three or four years. “If you’re involved in the music scene in Leeds you get it rammed down your throat that the Kaiser Chiefs and the Pigeon Detectives are your legacy” says Harry Johns who fronts the ld Romantic Killer Band a guitar-drums duo who sound like a grunged-up 60s power trio. “We all love the Cribs because of the punk aesthetic and the stripped-down sounds. But otherwise [New Yorkshire] wasn’t for us. We’d meet at parties and say ‘We’re not really into this are we?’ Then we started bands.
Adele’s voice belies her age
Los Angeles Times CA
In fact the 20-year-old sitting at her room in the London hotel in West Hollywood dismisses the very concept of retro soul with a wave of her hand and a drag on her cigarette. She traces her accomplishments to one artist and one artist only: The 2007 pop music phenomenon. "It’s good that Duffy and I are doing well but I think it’s part of the Amy thing" Adele said. "The world just wants more Amy.
The music never died
San Jose Mercury News USA
“La Bamba” the film about Valens’ life came out in 1987 Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(”adPosBox”); a postage stamp was released in 1992 and Valens was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. The family has organized tribute concerts in Watsonville and a new box set of Valens’ music is planned this spring. Although Valens’ recording career lasted eight months with three hit records Lemos isn’t surprised that people are still interested. “My brother was definitely not a one-hit wonder. He was an original. He was not a wannabe” said Lemos.
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