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YouTube of the Week: Yakety Trap Edition

February 19, 2008 by Dave

Some Benny Hill jokes… why not? The second one I found via Graham.

Filed Under: Movies, Music, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television, YouTube Tuesday

Guitar Hero for Reals?

February 7, 2008 by Bartoneus

My wife was kind enough to show me this article about Guitar Rising at Gizmodo, which looks like a great attempt at creating essentially a game based on guitar hero that can actually teach you to play the guitar. The game uses any real guitar hooked up to your sound card, featuring “actual songs” and […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Music, News, Video Games Tagged With: guitar hero, guitar rising, rhythm games, rock band

Inq. of the Week: Are you Ready to Rock?

January 14, 2008 by Dave

Good triumphant! That’s what last week’s poll about your favorite alignment determined, with a surprising 74 people thus far weighing in. Neutral Good was the top flavor of good, since most of you hero types believe that Good should not care about Law or Chaos. Second up was the champion of individuality and freedom, Chaotic […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Music, Video Games Tagged With: more cowbell, rock band

"A Band of Orcs" Wants to Encounter You

January 10, 2008 by Dave

Everybody’s favorite Orcish-themed death/thrash metal band, A Band of Orcs, is holding a contest to see who can write the most brutal encounter involving a band of orcs for D&D. Check it out because the deadline is soon- January 21st. Players in my current D&D game will find that this nicely coincides with an encounter […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Music, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: a band of orcs, contest, D&D, d20 system, death metal, Music

Review: Freezepop "Future Future Future Perfect"

January 8, 2008 by Dave

Freezepop isn’t a household band name, but gamers have a greater chance of recognizing their brand of catchy synthpop. The band has contributed songs to a few video games (most notably for bonus tracks in Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 2, and Rock Band– one of the members of the band works for Harmonix.) They also […]

Filed Under: Music, Reviews Tagged With: freezepop, guitar hero, indie music, Reviews, synthpop

Inq. of the Week: Pirates Ahoy

December 10, 2007 by Dave

As expected, To Hit Armor Class 0 is the best nerd rockband name ever as has been proven conclusively, and I didn’t even have to cheat. On our worldwide tour, Rock Into Mordor can open for us for coming in a respectable second. Various other band names (both real and imagined) all came in with […]

Filed Under: Comics, Editorial, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Music Tagged With: marvel dc comics zcultfm piracy inquisitionoftheweek

Rock Band First Impressions: The Good, the Bad, and the Clash

November 30, 2007 by Dave

After sending DrScotto questing all around Maryland in search of Rock Band last Sunday, he arrived with the large box in tow and laid it at our feet to dig through many boxes, baggies, and instructions. Him, The O, my little brother, and myself rocked out for a few hours that night, each taking a […]

Filed Under: Featured, Music, Reviews, Video Games

First Impressions: Guitar Hero 3 (Xbox 360)

October 29, 2007 by Dave

I strolled right into my local GameStop yesterday and picked up Guitar Hero 3 (game only) for the Xbox 360. (Also grabbed the Orange Box, but resisted Halo 3 for now.) Using my trusty band THAC0, I’d estimate I’ve played through about half of the game on Medium, maybe a little more. I still don’t […]

Filed Under: Music, Reviews, Video Games Tagged With: guitar hero, xbox 360

An Excellent Music Video

October 4, 2007 by Bartoneus

I’ll just get it out there right now, I was reading Kanye West’s Blog. Please don’t have any a heartattack yet, but if you haven’t heard his new album Graduation yet you definitely should and then you might understand. The music video here isn’t one of his, though his newest one does have some awesome […]

Filed Under: Anime, Critical Bits, Music, YouTube Tuesday

Sweet Merciful Crap

September 12, 2007 by Bartoneus

What makes one damn good music video? One of the best songs in the universe, that’s what!

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Movies, Music, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, YouTube Tuesday

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