Headlining the latest round of details to come out about The Beatles: Rock Band—which, along with the Fab Four’s remastered catalog, comes out on Sept. 9—is the inevitable announcement of a Story Mode. Play straight through the Beatles catalog, and the game’s avatars will progress from the moptoppers plying their trade in Liverpool’s Cavern Club, through Beatlemania, psychedelia, and flaunting fur coats on the Apple Corp rooftop. (The subsequent breakup and lawsuits will presumably be covered in Allen Klein: Rock Accountant.) MORE »
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“The Beatles: Rock Band” To Bring Around Christmas A Bit Early
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This Could Be Some New Daft Punk Music
Yes, really! Or the music in the clip after the jump could just be the result of shenanigans by the people behind marketing Tron Legacy, who are trying to take their “viral event” (ugh, I hate when marketingspeak gets adopted by the masses) to the highly music-bloggable level. Either way, the music that played underneath the reveal of the forthcoming sequel’s lightcycles is right behind the MORE link. Try to not get any nerdgasm on the furniture, OK? MORE »
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“The Beatles: Rock Band”: A First Look
On Monday in New York, Paul McCartney enjoyed a day off before today’s final concert in his three-show stint at Citi Field. Elsewhere in the Big Apple, Harmonix and MTV Games hosted a hands-on demo of the latest build of The Beatles: Rock Band. (Ringo’s whereabouts were unknown.) I went in the hopes of getting my hands dirty and my voice raspy with a 90% finished version of the game, which comes out on Sept. 9. Sadly, no screaming teenage girls were provided. MORE »
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“Bandslam” Shows Us The Effects Of Gentrification On The Youth
The Vanessa Hudgens/Aly Michalka battle-of-the-bands flick Bandslam opens on Aug. 14, and we have a peek at a scene that will likely tug at more than a few heartstrings. In the clip (located after the jump), rebel girl Sa5m (Hudgens) and new-kid-in-town Will (Gaelan Connell) take the train from their New Jersey home into the city and wind up sneaking into the shuttered CBGB, where Will runs down an abbreviated history of rock and roll as seen through the lens of 315 Bowery—including its rent-increased denouement. MORE »
