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Guitar Hero

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Music Games Decline to Rage Against the Censorship Machine

    Censorship is one of music's longer running conflicts, a struggle where the desire for marketability often trumps creative freedom. That's been the case for every music video game in existence, titles that constantly walk the aforementioned tightrope. One of the more challenging songs to appear in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    The Glee Treatment: "Fuck That Shit" and Five Other Rejections From Bands

    Regardless of what anybody thinks about the actual program, there's no disputing that Glee has become an absolute juggernaut in the music industry. As of October 2011, songs from the show have been downloaded 36 million times. And during that same time period, 11 million physical albums that have be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Ten Music Game DLC Releases That Stirred Up Controversy

    It's not hyperbole to say that downloadable content sparked a huge revolution in console video gaming. Expansions prolonged replay value of many titles, especially music games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero. The Rock Band franchise in particular has produced an impressive amount of downloadable ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Rock Band Blitz Takes Music Game Genre Back to Basics

    Recent music games have become opulent affairs, pulling out all the artistic stops to capture gamers' attention spans. The Beatles: Rock Band for instance was a beautiful visualization of the legendary group's music, complete with dazzling virtual representations of the Fab Four. And various iterati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    The Best of Covers of Mario Paint, Unlikely Video Game Composition Forefather

    Mario is a versatile video game character. In his long career in the digital world, Mario raced go-karts, fought adversaries in hand-to-hand combat and even got kidnapped to teach kids about geography. Yet Nintendo's plumber extraordinaire may have inadvertently been a trailblazer in the realm of v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    Rock Band Delivers its Most Requested Song Ever: "Never Gonna Give You Up"! No, Seriously.

    Any DJ, cover band or organ grinder can attest to how touchy people can get when a requested song isn't played. The blowback can be even more harsh when the musical entity in question is Harmonix, the creator of the Rock Band video game franchise. Even though music gaming experienced some discerni ... More >>

  • Music

    May 26, 2011

    Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

    8 p.m. Tuesday, May 31. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

  • Film

    January 13, 2011

    Celebrity living has its downside in Somewhere

    8 p.m. Tuesday, May 31. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

  • Film

    December 23, 2010

    From party girl to Oscar winner, Sofia Coppola's journey to Somewhere

    8 p.m. Tuesday, May 31. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    10 Things to Do This Saturday if You Don't Celebrate Christmas

    RFT layout editor Kholood Eid contributed to this post. image via​In case you've been living under a rock, you probably know that this Saturday is Christmas Day, a time for joy and family and celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. But what if you are joyless or family-less or see no reason to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    How Defunct Columbia Band Audio Ammunition Came to Appear on Rock Band

    In addition to being a blast to play at parties, music video games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero are a great marketing tool for bands. They allow artists to expose their work to new audiences -- and, in some cases, highlight the intricacies of their songs. And with the advent of the Rock Band Ne ... More >>

  • News

    July 14, 2010

    Ronnie's Kids

    Today, "amnesty" is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

  • Music

    June 16, 2010

    Blitzen Trapper

    8 p.m. Monday, June 21. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    Pale Divine: What Have They Been Up to in 2009?

    In this week's paper, the members of Pale Divine were kind enough to indulge questions about their favorite cover songs -- you see, their second-annual reunion show tonight at the Pageant will feature them doing two sets and tons of old covers. But the band's been quite busy in the last year since w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    KSHE Klassics -- A YouTube Compendium (Part 1)

    ​In this week's issue, Annie Zaleski heralds the arrival of In Concert: KSHE and 40 Years of Rock in St. Louis, a scrapbook of the area's latter-day music history. Reading "Raised on Radio" put a few of us locals in a nostalgic state of mind, inspiring an e-mail frenzy of the KSHE Klassics o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2009

    Review Setlists: Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson at GCS Ballpark, Thursday, July 2

    Everything looked bad but the weather. I crawled through traffic in parts of Cahokia and Sauget that will never make a John Mellencamp small town video. I stared at the lines snaking around the GCS Ballpark half an hour before show time. I forked out $10 for the pleasure of later waiting an hour to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Spotted: Aerosmith's Joe Perry -- In Front of the RFT's Offices

    Sometime this afternoon, a big huge bus parked itself outside the RFT's offices on Delmar. Emblazoned on the side of the vehicle in fiery colors were logos for Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, a painted caricature of guitarist Joe Perry and his website, JoePerry.com. We're so conditioned to weird things in t ... More >>

  • Music

    June 3, 2009

    Aerosmith

    7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 10. Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    The Curse of Alternative Nostalgia and the Class of '93: A Response to the Chicago Sun-Times' Article

    The Chicago Sun-Times’ blog recently published an interesting piece by noted music critic Jim DeRogatis, in which he attempts to prove that ‘90s Alternative Nation darlings (and specifically Chicago acts Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair and Smashing Pumpkins) resemble the baby-boomer acts t ... More >>

  • Music

    November 19, 2008

    I Need a Hero: In honor of Smashing Pumpkins' twentieth anniversary, a list of Billy Corgan's top ten guitar heroes

    The Chicago Sun-Times’ blog recently published an interesting piece by noted music critic Jim DeRogatis, in which he attempts to prove that ‘90s Alternative Nation darlings (and specifically Chicago acts Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair and Smashing Pumpkins) resemble the baby-boomer acts t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2008

    St. Louis Video: The Beatles, 1966

    The Chicago Sun-Times’ blog recently published an interesting piece by noted music critic Jim DeRogatis, in which he attempts to prove that ‘90s Alternative Nation darlings (and specifically Chicago acts Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair and Smashing Pumpkins) resemble the baby-boomer acts t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2008

    Interview: Kai Huang, CEO of RedOctane, a.k.a. The Company Behind Guitar Hero

    The Chicago Sun-Times’ blog recently published an interesting piece by noted music critic Jim DeRogatis, in which he attempts to prove that ‘90s Alternative Nation darlings (and specifically Chicago acts Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair and Smashing Pumpkins) resemble the baby-boomer acts t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2008

    Last Night: Guitar Hero at the Tin Can, St. Louis

    The Chicago Sun-Times’ blog recently published an interesting piece by noted music critic Jim DeRogatis, in which he attempts to prove that ‘90s Alternative Nation darlings (and specifically Chicago acts Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair and Smashing Pumpkins) resemble the baby-boomer acts t ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    June 11, 2008

    Guitar Hero and Rock Band give new meaning to "rock and roll excess"

    The Chicago Sun-Times’ blog recently published an interesting piece by noted music critic Jim DeRogatis, in which he attempts to prove that ‘90s Alternative Nation darlings (and specifically Chicago acts Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair and Smashing Pumpkins) resemble the baby-boomer acts t ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    April 2, 2008

    Guinness writes the book on gaming, but doesn't shatter any records

    The Chicago Sun-Times’ blog recently published an interesting piece by noted music critic Jim DeRogatis, in which he attempts to prove that ‘90s Alternative Nation darlings (and specifically Chicago acts Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair and Smashing Pumpkins) resemble the baby-boomer acts t ... More >>

  • Music

    March 19, 2008

    B-Sides catches up with Lou ex-pat Black Spade and finds out how Black Moutain manages to rock so hard

    The Chicago Sun-Times’ blog recently published an interesting piece by noted music critic Jim DeRogatis, in which he attempts to prove that ‘90s Alternative Nation darlings (and specifically Chicago acts Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair and Smashing Pumpkins) resemble the baby-boomer acts t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 6, 2008

    Gaming for Good

    The Chicago Sun-Times’ blog recently published an interesting piece by noted music critic Jim DeRogatis, in which he attempts to prove that ‘90s Alternative Nation darlings (and specifically Chicago acts Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair and Smashing Pumpkins) resemble the baby-boomer acts t ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    January 23, 2008

    Axes to Grind

    The Guitar Hero frenzy careens toward overkill.

  • Home Entertainment

    December 12, 2007

    Almost Famous

    It's never been easier to start your own (fake) band.

  • Home Entertainment

    November 14, 2007

    Shred Cred

    You wanted the best — you got the best: Guitar Hero III.

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2007

    Daily Web Crawl

    You wanted the best — you got the best: Guitar Hero III.

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2007

    Punk is Finally, Truly, Absolutely, Completely Dead

    You wanted the best — you got the best: Guitar Hero III.

  • Calendar

    May 2, 2007

    Prepare for Burnination!

    You wanted the best — you got the best: Guitar Hero III.

  • Music

    January 3, 2007

    Jazzercise

    B-Sides covers, well, the covers repertoire of the Bad Plus and learns about Todd Mosby's newfangled imratgitar.

  • Home Entertainment

    November 22, 2006

    Encore Performance

    Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act.

  • Home Entertainment

    September 20, 2006

    Puddle of Fun

    LocoRoco is the perfect one-night stand.

  • Home Entertainment

    May 10, 2006

    Beat Down

    This DJ simulator is nothing to rave about.

  • Music

    March 22, 2006

    The Slip

    Wednesday, March 29 at 9 p.m. Cicero's (6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City).

  • Home Entertainment

    November 23, 2005

    Guitar Hero

    Guitar Hero cranks rhythm-gaming up to 11.

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