Slurpee® Rocks ut With First Virtual `Battle of the Bands`
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- Slurpee® Rocks ut With First Virtual `Battle of the Bands`
- Viacom hopes the Beatles: Rock Band game sets stage for rebound
- They will rock you
- Ten questions for local guitarist Martin Paris
- With Milwaukee roots four musicians follow their passions
- Les Paul: Pop Music’s Thomas Edison
- Broader scope gives Viva Chicago Latin Music Festival a livelier beat
Slurpee® Rocks ut With First Virtual `Battle of the Bands`
Reuters
com and adds an in-store first — three colorful32-oz guitar-shaped Slurpee cups and a giant 54-ounce guitar-shaped Big Gulpcup. The Big Gulp guitar cup comes in both blue and red and has its own customguitar strap and straw. It is replicated after the guitar controllers in today`swildly popular rock music video games. All five guitars can be personalized with stickers that are included withpurchase. In addition three collectible Slurpee straws feature psychedelicguitars each with a unique design that can be removed and used as a backpackclip or keychain. It wouldn`t be a Slurpee promotion without something new tosavor. Battle Berry is September`s featured Slurpee flavor a sweet and tartcombination created by The Coca-Cola Company which blends the new yumberrysuper-fruit taste with currant and other berries.
Viacom hopes the Beatles: Rock Band game sets stage for rebound
Los Angeles Times
and Michael Jackson’s estate which controls the publishing rights to most of the Beatles catalog. thers who will benefit from the game include Apple Corps which represents Paul McCartney Ringo Starr and the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison plus EMI Music owner of their recordings. Guitar Hero pioneered the music video game genre in 2005 and remains the top seller. Its seven major entries have sold a total of 34. 2 million units around the world. And its publisher Activision is hardly letting up. Four new Guitar Hero games will debut this fall including a hip-hop spin-off called DJ Hero and a family-friendly version called Band Hero.
They will rock you
San Diego Union Tribune
August 30 2009 Yeah yeah yeah! “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band” didn’t set out to transform the struggling music industry but they are doing exactly that by letting tech-savvy music fans simulate the experience of being rock stars onstage. Since their introduction in 2005 and 2007 respectively they have become a $3 billion success story at the same time that record stores are closing the album in physical form is dying and illegal downloading of music continues to surge. A cultural phenomenon “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero” have enabled veteran groups such as Mötley Crüe and relative newcomers like DragonForce to expand their audience and boost their sales. Now after a reported 48 percent jump in music video game sales in the first half of this year the Sept. 9 release of “The Beatles: Rock Band” could see the group once known as the Fab Four inspire an unprecedented number of Fab Fauxs.
Ten questions for local guitarist Martin Paris
San Luis bispo Tribune
What am I doing sitting around? I should be in the studio. ’ ” His motivation (and his injury) paid off. At age 45 Paris a fingerpicking-style guitarist scored a deal with Solid Air Records a Southern California label that specializes in instrumental guitar music. The result is “Guitarist ff the Vine” a collection of instrumentals that draws from blues Celtic and Latin genres. Click image to see caption.
With Milwaukee roots four musicians follow their passions
Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
After he graduates next year Beder would like to become an editorial illustrator — think The New Yorker magazine— or a children’s book illustrator. Music businessElias Cohn 27 received his first guitar as a present for his bar mitzvah. His father Shorewood resident Michael Cohn was the first person to teach him anything on guitar. “Music has always been a passion something that I always dedicated a lot of time and energy to” said Cohn who lives in Washington D. since graduating from Colorado College in 2005with bachelor’s degrees in history and political science. Cohn has already experienced a hefty dose of the music business and he considers music his career.
Les Paul: Pop Music’s Thomas Edison
Popular Science
According to legend Paul created his first electrically amplified guitar when he was only a teenager by inserting a record player pick up into the back of an acoustic guitar. In either 1940 or 1941 Paul created what is generally considered to be the first solid body electric guitar. Music was never the same. Unlike the many custom guitars Paul would create for himself later in life his first electric guitar was nothing more than some pickups nailed to a wooden board. The composite was so unsightly that he nicknamed it “the log”. While other instruments before Paul’s guitar had generated sounds purely through electrical signals none of them caught on as quickly or as widely.
Broader scope gives Viva Chicago Latin Music Festival a livelier beat
Chicago Tribune
Singer Andrea Echeverri turned the day’s popular transnational cheer to one calling for respecting women throughout the Americas. Although its mix of surf guitar lines psychedelia indigenous Colombian woodwinds and other global sources continues to evolve mid-’90s anthems such as “No Necesito” enthralled the group’s young fans. The performance also commemorated the festival’s history as Libre performed at the first Viva in 1989. Libre’s director bassist Andy Gonzalez along with numerous soloists showed why this classic sound remains fresh. Libre’s rock solid and irrepressibly danceable clave beat underpinned trombonist Jimmy Bosch and flutist Dave Valentin’s improvisational flights.
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