Web world for music fans hopes to gain following
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- Web world for music fans hopes to gain following
- Guitar Hero and Rock Band try to drum up new players
- Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley finds new way to express himself painting
- Adjust the volume of iTunes and iPod tracks
- This is your brain on guitar
- Brazilian Pop: Sambas With a Twist
- Miami GuitarTown Previews 10-Foot Tall Gibson Les Paul Guitar …
Web world for music fans hopes to gain following
The Associated Press
With Loudcrowd he said “we were trying to take the experience of `Guitar Hero’ and make that more social” beyond the living room to the Internet where people are spending more and more of their social lives. “I have always been interested in finding new ways to experience and interact with music and games which is what attracted me to Harmonix” said gles 27. Users signing in to Loudcrowd can play music-centered Flash games to win music tracks and avatar outfits. The games are reminiscent of “Guitar Hero” or “Dance Dance Revolution”; in one for example players use the mouse to roll over dots as they pop up on a turntable. Players can also interact with friends and strangers by having their avatars “dance” for them or challenge them to games — sort of like an online dance club. The soundtrack for all this on a recent try was upbeat indie dance music from artists like Kid Sister Ladytron and Santogold. Loudcrowd is free to use and doesn’t carry ads.
Guitar Hero and Rock Band try to drum up new players
Los Angeles Times
The makers of the video games plan to release versions targeting discrete music genres to help boost stagnant sales. By Alex Pham March 16 2009The Guitar Hero and Rock Band video games have become huge hits generating $1. 6 billion in North American sales last year from players who love jamming along with music legends. But now customers may be singing an old blues classic: “The Thrill Is Gone. “After surging 68% in 2008 sales of music games are expected to be stagnant this year.
Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley finds new way to express himself painting
The Canadian Press
— When it comes to glam rock stars Paul Stanley always could wield that makeup brush with the best of them. So maybe it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that the Kiss guitarist first introduced to the world with his face covered in white makeup his lips painted bright red a dark star over his right eye would someday set aside that guitar long enough to pour his soul into oil on canvas. Still Stanley says he was the most surprised guy on the planet when he an art-class washout from New York City’s High School of Music and Art suddenly began to make the transition from guitar god to serious painter eight years ago. “I managed to fail art. Which is you know astonishing” he says with a sly smile as he sits in an oversized easy chair in his home studio. “Nobody fails art at that school. “How he managed to do so seems surprising when one casts a glance around Stanley’s studio which sits just behind his house atop a brush-covered mansion-dotted hillside overlooking Los Angeles.
Adjust the volume of iTunes and iPod tracks
Macworld
comIf you listen to your music randomly?using the shuffle songs function in iTunes or on an iPod or with the iTunes DJ (formerly Party Shuffle) feature in iTunes for example?you?ve probably noticed that some songs are louder than others. For instance much pop music is recorded very loud and a lot of jazz and classical music is much softer. In addition record producers seem to be increasing the volume in recent years: you?ll find that older music may be softer than newer recordings. As such you may find yourself adjusting the volume of your playback device and doing so often.
This is your brain on guitar
Los Angeles Times
"In everyday life people often need to coordinate their actions with that of others" the authors wrote. "Some common examples are walking with someone at a set pace playing collective sports or fighting dancing playing music in a duet or group and a wide range of social bonding behaviors (e. eye-gaze coordination between mother and infant or between partners). "The study cannot prove however whether this coupling occurs in response to the beat of the music watching each other’s movements and listening to each other or whether the synchronization takes place first and fosters the coordinated performance.
Brazilian Pop: Sambas With a Twist
New York Times
liveira who turns 34 on Tuesday is the son of Jair Rodrigues one of Brazil’s most celebrated samba singers. He became a child television star on the program “Balão Mággico” (“Magic Balloon”) and in its associated pop group the Magic Balloon Gang before he was 12. He went on to study music and production at the Berklee School of Music in Boston before returning to a career as songwriter producer and singer in Brazil. The music-school techniques showed in Mr. liveira’s most distinctive songs. His set on Saturday began with compositions that were full of musicianly convolutions like the odd meter and gnarled jazz chords of “Contigo Sempre” all packed into syncopated guitar patterns that he delivered with quick-fingered ease. In their harmonies some songs suggest a Brazilian answer to.
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Miami GuitarTown Previews 10-Foot Tall Gibson Les Paul Guitar …
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