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“The Who: Rock Band” On the Way? Daltrey Drops a Hint

BASOAdmin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:48:30 +0000

The Who will reportedly be the next band to receive their own branded Rock Band video game. Singer Roger Daltrey let the following tidbit slip in an interview with MassLive: “The game, yeah, yeah, they’re going to be doing a Who one next year. There is one planned. [The idea] is fabulous. Anything that gets non-musical people interested in music is wonderful.” So far, only the Beatles have their own Rock Band title; Guitar Hero has games pegged to acts including Aerosmith and Metallica.

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A Rock Band spokeperson told video game blog Kotaku, “We’re working closely with the Who on what’s next, but don’t have anything new to announce at this time.”

Given the cinematic and conceptual nature of the Who and Pete Townshend, Rock Band seems like a better fit for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band than Guitar Hero. Whereas GH has created lifelike avatars and restored famed venues for their artist-based games like GH: Metallica or GH: Van Halen, MTV Games upped the ante with The Beatles: Rock Band, crafting entire dreamscapes to accompany the music and offering replicas of the Fab Four’s instruments, an approach that would work well with the Who’s concept albums like Tommy and Quadrophenia.

Unlike the Beatles, however, the Who have already offered up a number of their songs for preexisting Rock Band games: RB featured “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” RB2 had “Pinball Wizard” and July 2008 saw the The Best of the Who bring a dozen of the band’s hits to Rock Band as downloadable content.

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Springsteen Still Set to Perform at Historic Rock Hall of Fame Concert

BASOAdmin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:36:00 +0000

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Despite canceling last night’s show in Kansas City, Missouri, due to the death of his assistant road manager/cousin, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will take the stage Thursday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden as part of the historic duo of concerts celebrating the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th anniversary.

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On October 29th, Springsteen will share the spotlight with Tom Morello and John Fogerty. The bill also inclues Stevie Wonder with B.B King and John Legend, Simon & Garfunkel, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. The next day’s lineup boasts U2, Aretha Franklin (with Lenny Kravitz and Annie Lennox) and Metallica joined by Ozzy Osbourne. Plus, Jeff Beck will be stepping in for Eric Clapton, who had to cancel his set due to minor surgery.

Rolling Stone will have complete coverage from both big concerts, so check back for live reports and photos of all the shows’ highlights, plus videos and behind-the-scenes interviews.

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Readers’ Rock List: Time Songs

BASOAdmin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:32:11 +0000

Last week, inspired by Adam Lambert’s new single “Time for Miracles,” we asked for your favorite songs that deal with time. Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon centerpiece “Time” was predictably victorious, edging out tracks by Prince, Nine Inch Nails and the Rolling Stones. As for Lambert, he surprisingly didn’t make the cut. Check out the Readers’ list below:

1. Pink Floyd – “Time”
2. Bob Dylan – “The Times They Are a-Changin’”
3. Coldplay – “Clocks”
4. Nine Inch Nails – “Beside You in Time”
5. Cyndi Lauper – “Time After Time”

6. Green Day – “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”
7. Foo Fighters – “Times Like These”
8. Prince – “Sign o’ the Times”
9. The Rolling Stones – “Time Is on My Side”
10. The Zombies – “Time of the Season”
11. George Michael – “Praying for Time”
12. The Beach Boys – “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times”
13. Led Zeppelin – “In My Time of Dying”
14. Talking Heads – “Once in a Lifetime”
15. Nick Drake – “Time Has Told Me”

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Fricke’s Picks: A Latin-Rock Classic

BASOAdmin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:11:36 +0000

Louie and the Lovers didn’t come from out of nowhere; it just seemed that way. A band of Mexican-Americans from Salinas, California, singer-guitarist-songwriter Louie Ortega, singer-guitarist Frank Paredes, bassist Steve Vargas and drummer Albert Parra quietly issued one of 1970’s best non-hit singles — “I Know You Know,” a bolt of spangled jangle and smooth garage-soul harmonies that Greil Marcus called, in these pages, “perfect music to wake up to” — and then one of rock’s great overlooked debuts, Rise, produced by Doug Sahm.

The golden-dawn chorus of the title song, the fuzz and funk of “Sittin’ by Your River” and the dusty doo-wop waltz “Driver Go Slow” now sound like a natural bridge from Creedence Clearwater Revival to the Chicano-rock explorations of Los Lobos. The Complete Recordings (Bear Family) reissues that prophetic roots ‘n’ spice with two LPs worth of mostly unreleased 1971-73 material, all rolling with the same class and natural groove.

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Weekend Rock List: Time Songs

BASOAdmin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:56:03 +0000

As evidenced by Rolling Stone’s trio of stories about Adam Lambert’s new song “Time for Miracles,” we spent a large amount of time listening to the Wild Idol’s single from 2012 this week. So we’re devoting this weekend’s Rock List to other songs about “time” that have withstood the test of time. Leave your favorites in our comments, and on Monday we’ll take count the votes. Our picks:

• Pink Floyd – “Time”
• Coldplay – “Clocks”
• Bob Dylan – “The Times They Are a-Changin’”
• The Human League – “Seconds”
• The Beastie Boys – “Time to Get Ill”

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