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Guitar Hero III vs. RockBand

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Nothing like a little friendly competition to kick off the holiday shopping season.

Ding-round one: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock vs. All new MTV-ified RockBand.  The face off begins as both games are released early November.

Guitar Hero steps it up a notch with the new ability to battle your very own “Guitar Heros” such as Slash and Tom Morello, whereas RockBand prays on every kids dream of joining an actual Rock Band….

Read this, and decide for yourself

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CBGB’s Disheartening Ressurection?

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Currently defunct legendary NYC music venue CBGB’s is set for a somewhat disheartening ressurection.  High fashion designer John Varvatos is said to be invading the once scrappy punk club and turning it into his new NYC boutique.

Varvatos may use the likeness of such rock royalty as Iggy Pop and Slash in his advertising campaigns, but does this license him the cred needed to take on the space minus adversity? 

It’s set to be an interesting battle that will surely end in Varvatos’s favor….because as we learned with the poetic closing of CB’s; money beats preservation.

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