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Parents’ Guide to the Movies, Video Games, and More



These days, parents have a hard time keeping track of what is good for their kids, or what their kids should avoid – if only due to the sheer amount of content that parents need to stay up with.

Did any of the parents who brought their young kids to a free concert in Central Park last week know what to expect when Green Day took the stage?  The concert was sponsored by ABC’s Good Morning America and Walgreen’s, so nothing offensive was going to happen, right?

Watching that clip, you can see the parents with their kids happily singing along to every curse word used in the song.  But I’m sure there were some families in the crowd that did not expect a TV morning show concert to contain profanity.

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Flash Fun: Rock Band Simulator



One thing that ROCK BAND and GUITAR HERO are missing is the ability to control all the other aspects of band life:

  • Picking who is in your band (well, that’s dependent on your friends, and what if all your friends suck at Guitar Hero?)
  • Recording albums or releasing singles
  • Dealing with the recording studio
  • Working the press, managing your band’s hype
  • Are you a corporate sellout?

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How to Repair Your Guitar Hero Instruments



Has your inner-Rock Band Guitar Hero been sidelined by breakdowns in inferior plastic equipment? 

Are your drum fills losing the star power you once had?  Is your guitar’s whammy bar a little less…. whammy?

Josh Straub has the answers for you with his ULTIMATE GUITAR HERO INSTRUMENT PHOTO REPAIR GUIDE.

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LEGO Rock Band Announced, and 10 Lego Music Videos



LEGO ROCK BAND has been announced for Christmas 2009 release.

The announced songs include:

If you were wondering what a LEGO ROCK BAND video game would look like, it could look something like this:

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Making Money at Guitar Hero



If you’re a band trying to make it big by touring college campuses (like I LOVE COLLEGE‘s Asher Roth) or just waiting to sign a deal with a label (and finding out with a music royalty calculator that you owe more to the label than they’re paying you), then maybe you need to rethink your game.

Maybe you need to focus your energy on making music for Guitar Hero and not for CDs and MP3 downloads.

Why?  Because that’s where the real money is these days.  Video games and music tie-ins.  Heck, the music-related video games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and others pulled in US$2.3 billion in three years.

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