We Are Scientists are a great indie rock band that are really gaining popularity. In their new track “Rules Don’t Stop” there are no real deviations from their norm. More great pop-rock from We Are Scientists can be found on their upcoming album Barbara in June.
A small selection of songs (mostly inspired by the fact that Weezer have a new album out and ‘Hash Pipe’ was an awesome track for this sort of thing), that probably show the average age of the people in the RouteNote office, but should none the less help you rock the last few hours of your week. Happy head-nodding…
The absolute best/worst of stadium and dad rock for you this week. It’s probably best to listen to this over your headphones, unless your co-workers have a good sense of humour, or are fans of falsetto, hair dye, facepaint and massive, massive guitars. The worst thing about it is that it’s brilliant:
Boston: More Than A Feeling
UFO: We Belong To The Night
Rainbow: Since You Been Gone
Journey: Don’t Stop Believin’
Asia: In The Heat Of The Moment
Guns ‘N’ Roses: Sweet Child O’ Mine
Bon Jovi: Livin’ On A Prayer
Toto: Hold The Line
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama
Kansas: Carry On Wayward Son
UFO: Doctor Doctor
Kiss: Strutter
Alice Cooper: Poison
Scorpions, Berlin Philharmonic: Hurricane 2000
Harmonix who are the makers of The Beatles: Rock Band and of course the original Rock Band are soon be releasing the new Rock Band 3. So far there has been a lot of talk that users are slowly getting a little bit bored of the games, because they cant see how Harmonix can beat The Beatles Rock Band game.
Dhani Harrison, son of Beatles‘ George Harrison has let a little secret slip out as most musicians do during interviews, whether it’s on purpose or not.
According to an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Harrison (who also helped develop The Beatles: Rock Band) shared the fact that Rock Band 3 may be more than just a game to scratch the surface of the brain. Rock Band 3 may actually teach non-musicians how to play real instruments!
We’ve all played Guitar Hero before. They’re just a bunch of buttons you have to click in synchronization with what you see on the screen. Rock Band 3 will somehow go beyond that since Harrison states:
“I’m workin on [...] making the controllers more real so people can actually learn how to play music while playing the game. [...] Give me a couple years, it’s going to happen.”
This may also explain why Scott Guthrie told IGN that the Rock Band empire was in for some drastic changes:
“We aren’t standing still – we will keep moving into new areas and look at new technologies that our platform holder partners are also developing, such as Project Natal from Microsoft.”
Don’t expect a new tracklist to be your final news for Rock Band 3. If they actually pull this off, it might take a lot longer and be a lot harder.
The Prodigy have announced that they are touring early in 2010.
The tour will last just six days during January of next year and will start in Doncaster on the 21st and will finish in Bournemouth on the 27th dubbed the ‘Run With The Wolves Tour’ the band have assured the public that they want to start 2010 in the UK, and want to include the places that they missed out last tour.
The band are set to release their new single “take me to the hospital” on 31st August, from their latest album “invaders must die”.
Harmonix has confirmed that its Beatles-themed music game will be released on 9 September this year, and will be called The Beatles: Rock Band. An official site has gone live today inviting gamers to sign up for alerts when pre-ordering begins.
It’s a big deal – the game will launch simultaneously in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and other countries, and will be available on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii.
The game will include support for guitar, bass, mic and drums, but will also offer “a limited number of new hardware offerings modeled after instruments used by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr throughout their career”.
Live sounding, grungy garage rock: vocal overtones that sound a bit like Kurt Cobain in his more vulnerable moments, with a wobbly Elliot Smith guitar doing the bulk of the work. Picture yourself in a rock nightclub in Seattle in the Pearl Jam/Nirvana era, and you’ll have a pretty good picture of what to expect. Put on your check shirt and ripped jeans, drink some beer and feel bad about everything before going to YouTube and watching some Beavis and Butthead. Yeah… Huhuh… Cool…
There’s a lot of music on this album. Not just in the sense that there are 14 meaty tracks on it, but in that each one has been painstakingly written and composed. The album would feel uncomfortable being limited by a single genre, so I’ll just slop it into ‘Rock’, and then qualify it with a lot of competing styles: Coup d’Etat is soaked in drawling Country and Western guitars, with a shuffling drumbeat and a simple guitar riff riding over and under the backing and vocals. There are thumping, stadium rock beats, trashy, crashy indie guitar riffs and stabs, bluesy organs, aching prog rock dissonances and breaks, and a whole gamut of influences competing for space and attention in this music. The twin Ariadne’s threads of the album are front-man Ryan Jones’ allusive writing style, liberally peppered with literary references, and his voice, which is very mobile and fluid, and usually backed up with complex overdubbed harmonics. A fast paced, stomping, pop-tastic, sing-along chorus-fest of an album.
Loose, bluesy, indie rock in a style mixing influences from both modern and (to me) 1970’s Neil Diamond, Rod Stewart sounds. The singer’s voice in particular reminds me of ‘The Rod’ at times. As a whole the album is more modern and grungey/garagey than this might suggest. Pick the Diamond out of it…
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