Full-On Rock Band Makes Jamming Follow-Up to Guitar Hero
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Harmonix's new game, the aptly named Rock Band, will be released for Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 by year's end. The company had a surprise success with its previous franchise, Guitar Hero, but Rock Band -- along with its four peripherals -- will retail for $200, four times as much as a typical game.
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Activision Inc  on Friday  unveiled a new "Guitar Hero" video game focusing on the rock  band Aerosmith, taking the billion-dollar franchise in a new  direction.
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Activision, publisher of the enormously popular computer game Guitar Hero, will release a special version of the game built entirely around the music of the band Aerosmith in June. The game will play on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii and Playstation 2.
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Game over Review Guitar Hero III and Rock Band are totally unavoidable in shopping trips to consumer electronics stores. As a guitar player for 40 years, I view the in-store demos of the games as primarily exercises in pitiless annoyance. What could be more embarrassing than people holding plastic toy guitars in public while trying to mime along to classic rock hits played by cartoons on a TV screen?â¦
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Harmonix designers and expert skin-pounders rock the learning curve with hints for rhythm-deficient videogamers.
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There is little obviously similar about Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Nobody would ever confuse R.E.M. for Metallica, but the guitars have definitely been turned up for the Georgia group's 14th studio album, "Accelerate."
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Much of the rock 'n' roll and pop canon is well established.
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Get ready! The complete and fully ordered setlist for the popular game Guitar Hero III has been leaked online (still unconfirmed, though).
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The Rock Hero Effect: In short, video games are the new CD.
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By Jens Manuel Krogstad, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa  Sep. 15--WATERLOO -- If record companies have their way, online guitar tabs will soon catch the stairway to heaven.
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Video game makers are straying from virtual blood-and-guts battles to letting people play at being rock music stars.
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The band that brought the infectious grooves of "Hey Mama" and "Let's Get It Started" to nightclubs across America has signed up to do the same for a video game where success is measured by how cool players are.
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MTV Games, Activision differ on why GH3 controllers aren't supported in Rock Band for PS3.
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Older amateur rockers are creating original albums as a viable sideline gig.
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Kid Rock took fans on a wild ride through the history of rock 'n' roll by jamming with guitarists from Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top and the Allman Brothers Band during a Hollywood club show on Thursday designed to raise money for music education in schools.