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Weekly Music Game Downloadable Content

Seems like every week there is more downloadable content for music games announced.  Fortunately the publishers are starting to give a little more advanced notice than they were a few months back. Rock Band / Rock Band 2 has nine songs released this week and it looks like another  next week. This Week’s Tracks: Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet Finley - Tutto E’ Possibile Platero y Tu - Hay Poco Rock N Roll Squeeze - Tempted Tokio Hotel - Ready, Set, Go The All-American Rejects - R

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AMA Motocross Series Partners with Alliance of Action Sports

NBC SPORTS AND MTV ANNOUNCE THE CREATION OF ALLI, THE ALLIANCE OF ACTION SPORTS Alli to include seven national & international action sports properties, adding new partnerships with Maloof Money Cup, AMA Motocross Championship & King of Wake series to popular Dew Tour franchise NEW YORK – December 1, 2008 – NBC Sports and MTV, a division of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), announced today the creation of Alli, the Alliance of Action Sports™. Alli is a global busines

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Rock Band Figures Do Not, In Fact, Rock

As a Rock Band and figural toy devotee, I was intrigued by the idea that my customizable Rock Band character could be made into a three dimensional figure though an on-demand process, via Harmonix and the Rock Band website. Made-to-order figures surely represent a whole new frontier in customizable, creative toys. What could be cooler than a mini-replica of myself staring at me while I sleep? I mean, one that I didn’t have to feed and buy school supplies for. While the idea is still an inter

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NBC Sports And MTV Announce The Creation Of Alli, The Alliance Of Action Sports

Alli to include seven national & international action sports properties, adding new partnerships with Maloof Money Cup, AMA Motocross Championship & King of Wake series to popular Dew Tour franchise New York - NBC Sports and MTV, a division of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), announced today the creation of Alli, the Alliance of Action Sports™.  Alli is a global business that joins the former Action Sports Tour properties (AST) with Maloof Money Cup, AMA Motocross Cham

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NBC Opens Bigger Umbrella With Alli

In a race to crush the action sports media competition, NBC is loading up. First, NBC’s AST Tour brought in MTV. Now, an entirely new alliance has been created aggregating the Action Sports Tour properties (AST) with Maloof Money Cup, AMA Motocross Championship and King of Wake series. It’s called Alli: The Alliance of Action Sports. Alli’s mission is to facilitate the momentous growth of action sports by showcasing both the competition and lifestyle aspect of these sports. We believe these ar

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Rock Band Bandmates are definitely not of the rocking variety

Back when the Rock Band Bandmates were first announced, I was out of my mind. I wanted one so badly and could not wait to order one. Then I saw the pictures of them (as well as the price) and decided to hold off until I saw reviews of some. Sadly, I hope a lot of you waited as well, as there are a lot of problems coming to the surface. There are 10 pages on the Harmonix forums filled with complaints about the figures, with complaints ranging from getting the wrong character to objects being bro

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The trashmen

desert bus for hope 2008 begins the guys from loadingreadyrun are playing a marathon of desert bus to grate money for child’s part of welfare! it’s hilarious to watch them portray it, especially as the hours go by, and this year it’s going to be staid more comic as they will be joined by the hint of ?the guild’, sean from harmonix, the joystiq podcast’s justin mcelroy, john davison of what they play and 1up yours, microsoft’s major nelson, jeremy baker of http://www.thezone.fm, and sam logan o

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As is customary in these parts, Harmonix has revealed next week’s downloadable content for Rock Band (and its sequel), offering us music from the All-American Rejects to Naked Brothers. “Body I Occupy” and “I Don’t Want to go to School” by Naked Brothers Band will cost 80 Microsoft points ($1) per song. The other songs are “Are You Dead Yet” by Children of Bodom, “Tutto E’ Possible” by Finley, “Hay Poco Rock n’ Roll” by Platero y Tu, “Tempted” by Squeeze, “Ready, Set, Go” by Tokio Hotel and “R

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How to sound like Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood

Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood is a BAFTA and Grammy-nominated musician and composer-in-residence for the BBC, best known as a member of English alternative rock group Radiohead. Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist, but serves mainly as a guitarist and keyboard player. He is the younger brother of fellow Radiohead member Colin Greenwood. In addition to guitar and keyboard instruments he plays viola, xylophone, glockenspiel, ondes Martenot (see below) , banjo, harmonica and drums. He also does w

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Player Exclusive Rewind: Pacific’s AND1 Devastate Mid

Back before AND1 fell off, the Le Habra, California-based brand built quite the rapport with both NBA players and NCAA teams. Nearly 25% of the athletes in the League were sporting the “Player logo” and teams like the Wyoming Cowboys and Pacific Tigers were outfitted in the brand’s footwear and apparel. The Tigers were hit off with an exclusive pair of the ‘05-06 Devastate Mid in white/black/team orange with a Harmonix heel unit and Pac’s “Tiger” logo stitched on the medial side below the ank

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Introducing Electro-Harmonix Effects Pedals!

For 40 years they’ve contributed to many of the most famous recordings in music history. Their pedals won't ever constrain the colour of your sound; rather, they give you the freedom to express it.

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Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero has become a cultural phenomenon in the world of computer video games. The guitar, software, and accessories are availabe in Guitar Hero - All Categories including Wii, Playstation, Xbox, etc. is a series of music video games published by RedOctane, in partnership with Activision. The series is notable for its use of a plastic guitar peripheral to simulate the playing of music, represented on-screen by colored notes that correspond to fret buttons on the controller. Heidi Klum Gu

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Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus

The Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 provides 9-volt power for up to eight guitar pedal effects. The unit’s eight DC power cables are compatible with most commonly used pedals, and the Pedal Power also features an auxiliary AC outlet for convenient facilitiation of AC-powered effects or MIDI foot controller. Each output is completely isolated, short circuit protected, highly filtered and regulated. Isolation is more than fixing ground loops. Ground loops cause hum, and the solution is to break the un

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This Week In Rock Band: “Tempted” by Squeeze

Okay, there are other songs apart from “Tempted” available on Rock Band this week but they don’t matter. I discovered “Tempted” after playing GTA Vice City and spent several days in high school where I listened to that song and that song only. It topped my iTunes play count until my old Dell decided to poop out on me. So, yeah, you know what I’m getting from my Rock Band Music Store. Harmonix were also nice enough to throw in a few discounts here and there in the spirit of Black Friday. Chi

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John’s Thanksgiving: Top 10 Things I’m Thankful For This Year

Thanksgiving is here, and Fandomania is pointing the spotlight towards our own staff as they reveal all the things they’re thankful for. Presented here and now are the things John Reid Adams is thankful for this year. (...) Read the rest of John’s Thanksgiving: Top 10 Things I’m Thankful For This Year (1,127 words)

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Short links for November 27th, 2008

Some interesting things I found recently: # Indamixx Laptop is First Pre-Configured Music Netbook, Running Linux, $499 - CDM has more on the Indamixx Laptop, a sub $500 laptop pre-bundled with energy XT, a bunch of samples and over 260 plugins and effects. Oh, and you get a free T-shirt. The Indamixx Laptop is now available for pre-order ($99 deposit, pay another $400 when it ships). # Buddha Machine 2 released: Ambient device - The Buddha Machine is a small audio-gear, some kind of "mult

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Of Guitar Hero, TARP, and the Credit Crunch

The story of Harmonix shows just how much we lose when startups can't find funding.

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Sony, Harmonix save early prototypes

Sony, Harmonix save early prototypes Donate to National Videogame Archive.  [11 comments]

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Paul McCartney on music piracy: “I don’t mind.”

Paul McCartney’s let slip a few choice words on the topic of illegal downloads, telling a packed press conference that he doesn’t particularly mind music piracy. The ex-Beatle was launching his latest The Fireman album, recorded with Youth, and admitted that while downloading seems “weird” to him, he’s laid back about it. He added: “I’m not from that. I’m from going into a shop and buying a 45. We’ve come through vinyl, tapes and CDs – it’s all the same, except people don’t pay for it. I do

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The Beatles, Close to iTunes

The Beatles, Close to iTunes After The Beatles agreed to let Harmonix make a special edition of their video game, “Rock Band”, which featured the band’s music exclusively, it was anticipated that the band’s remaining members would finally agree to allow Apple to distribute their music through iTunes, their online music store. It seems that Paul McCartney was interested in a collaboration, and has been negotiating with Apple, according to a statement he gave to BBC. Moreover, it appears that A

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