Rocktastic: How Guitar Hero brought stardom to the masses
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- Rocktastic: How Guitar Hero brought stardom to the masses
- The Extra Golden African music crash course
- Music Review | Neko Case n Alert and Ready for Trouble
Rocktastic: How Guitar Hero brought stardom to the masses
Independent
The music industry is looking for a similar deal – or at least one that would see them get a decent slice of the profits from the games’ stellar sales. Activision CE Robert Kotick however has wondered out loud whether the record companies should get any money at all and whether because of the games’ impact it should instead be the labels who pay the developers for their artists’ inclusion. But has Guitar Hero really saved guitar music as is sometimes suggested? Charlie Shawcross 23 is one of Jim Clark’s students and a fan of the game but he argues "All the songs on it are down-the-line rock and the guitar music is far wider than that. If anything it narrows guitar playing down into a clich?quot;The brand has designs on other genres. A "DJ Hero" game is in the works for budding vinyl scratchers. And as Kotick himself has suggested the game has the potential to rival iTunes should it choose to launch a similar online music store. Bronfman meanwhile might like to consider the fact that a whole new post-Napster generation of young people is learning to pay for music and appreciate its intrinsic value thanks to videogames.
The Extra Golden African music crash course
Decider DC
We’ve always been into those kind of vintage guitar tones that you hear coming from the ’60s and ’70s. In Kenya they’re more into plugging the guitar directly into the mixing board and putting some digital delay on it so one thing we thought would be cool is to bring those kind of [raw] sounds I guess back into that process of how those guys write songs. Even though it’s not new it sounds kind of fresh because a lot of contemporary African guitar music is really clean-sounding.
Music Review | Neko Case n Alert and Ready for Trouble
New York Times
All those moments came courtesy of her most recent album “Middle Cyclone” (Anti-) which makes an exquisite case for guardedness. The show similarly featured songs of admonition hurt and regret delivered with a declarative gleam. In her singing and occasionally her guitar playing Ms. Case created the feeling of a fragile accord between muted reflection and full-blown crisis. And like any heir of.
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