The industry has talked about "you music, where you want, whenever you want" for several years now. If we can deliver that, the logic goes, piracy becomes less attractive. That reality is getting a lot closer with streaming music services and apps, music in the cloud and last week Facebook 's music announcements. Microsoft's Xbox Live just jumped into music and media in a much bigger way with online radio provider iHeartRadio and music video giant VEVO. They joined alomost 40 media companies including Comcast, HBO GO, [...]
The Hive : MTV launching super alt, indie-centric music show Weird Vibes this Thursday. The Observer : A profile on rich kid, rapper and fashion heir Rich Hilfiger. Billboard : "Kid" of Kid N' Play arrested in LA. But was it a mistake? Forbes : Hip-Hop's top 20 earners, no real surprises. Grantland : Spotify and the search for meaning in music. [...]
Splink Media interviews Marv Won, Guilty Simpson, Nick Speed, Malaki the most hi, and One Be Lo about how "Indie" artists can find success in the current music industry.
You paid what for that seat? Live Nation and Ticketmaster have partnered with MarketShare to develop variable pricing systems for concert and sports tickets. After being banned by Google, Grooveshark has made its Android streaming music app available as an unofficial download. MXP4 is launching a social music gaming app for Facebook , Bopler Games . It launches with music from Kt Tunstall, Lilly Allen, Digital Underground, Norah Jones, Afrika Bambaataa, Culture Club, Big Country, Jonas Brothers, [...]
R.I.P. Activision Blizzard announced the cancellation of the Guitar Hero franchise. After reporting fourth-quarter loss of revenue, Activision Blizzard Inc. revealed that due to the decline of the music game genre they will be discontinuing any further installments of the game, including DJ Hero, and disband the business unit. Once a titan among video game titles, the past few years have shown little interest for the franchise and game genre as a whole. Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock was not received well from critics, and fell far below estimated sales. The game was said [...]
Harmonix's fifth installment of the Rock Band series, Rock Band 3, offers some new features that are sure to impress every music fan out there. Putting yourself in the shoes of your favorite music artists has never been easier or more fun than with a brand new 83 song set list, a new instrument and the highly anticipated Pro Mode. If you had ever played Rock Band installments in the past, you would probably note that while the chance for it to be a one of the greatest party games was [...]
Theme of this article: Appearances . I was super excited to try out DJ Hero for myself. I had seen videos of it, but I was curious as to how the game "felt" in my hands. Would the scratching feel legit? Were the mechanics well-planned? Could I expect another great music game from Activision? Before I begin the review, let's plot out my expectations. Harsh, but I need to be legit here. Please note that this is before I even SAW the game in person. 1- This game will be too easy. 2- [...]
Hey guys, hope all is well, I was recently approached by Mauricio of M80 Social Media Marketing ( http://m80im.com ) with some information on DJ Hero, as well as a request for me to write about the game. We've had some mentions of Activision's new game (released October 27th in North America, 29th in Europe), including a pretty in-depth analysis by Untra . However, this blog is lacking a real hands-on review. And from what I can tell, there aren't many good hands-on reviews anywhere. So I went back and forth [...]
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If you are a music fan, and by reading this you probably already are one, then you should be familiar with the plethora of musical/timing games, like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Band Hero, and now DJ Hero just to name a few. To celebrate the release of Dj Hero we put together a small sample playlist of some of the best songs we found on the game's soundtrack, to give you a taste of what you can expect. The game track list is mostly compromised of good quality mash-ups, combining two tracks to try to form a distinct experience [...]
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Though I remain an avid Rock Band and Guitar Hero player, I've long ago stopped caring about the releases of new songs for in-game play. I have more than enough to play right now, and I'm broke as a joke most days, so downloadable content is out—well, unless those songs can be as good as one of the new tracks that will appear on the first portable edition of Rock Band . See for yourself; one of these things is not like the others. [...]
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