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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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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It’s been way, way, way too long since I posted any music here, or in fact recorded anything. Anyway, it’s always rough starting back up, but always a little interesting. Here’s a song I was planning on submitting for the monthly challenge, but apparently I am unable to make scary music. I’m getting a new mic and a keyboard soon – just recently gave a good effort at throwing together some way to make rough mixes in my apartment.

Also I am redoing the mixes on a bunch of songs from my EP, so recheck that out?

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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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This is a song I wrote in late August, for bingo’s Revolving Floor project. I started from the naked gimmick of trying to re-use the word “seconds” in the same structural spot but with different meanings (“seconds” was the theme of that issue of Revolving Floor), and the story of the song just grew around that, as I tried to think up a narrative that could involve the concepts of assistants-to-ritual-suicide and going-back-for-more and the ticking of the clock.

I like the recording a lot in general, though the big hit of the return of the full instrumentation after the drop in the third verse doesn’t feel as big as I’d like.

This is another early effort in tracking live drums, too—unfortunately, I’m still just doing it with room mics, so there’s not a hell of a lot I can do about the levels on various drum sounds aside from a bit of EQ tweaking. But for all that it’s really satisfying to be able to have drums in a recording, and I’ve been considering experimenting with some retrackings of old songs that I wrote with a “band sound” in mind but never had a rhythm section for.

Vocals are also kind of experimental here; I hung a second mic (actually my new Zoom H2 in monitoring mode) in a window a few feet off from the main mic when I was tracking vocals, and the mix between those two is intentionally lopsided in the stereo field. Not sure I’m in love with the chorusy result on this song in particular (though I do like the extra roominess it gives the vocals during the drop in the third verse), but it’s something I might play with a little more in the future.

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