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Guitar Hero Metallica track list and features

Tom Kessler — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:35:21 +0000

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Over 20 Superstar Guest Acts – Featuring acts chosen by Metallica ranging from Queen, to Alice in Chains, Lynrd Skynrd and the Foo Fighters, jam to a wide variety of high-energy rock for Guitar Hero. Go beyond the music of Metallica to bands they collaborated with, the music that inspired them, and acts they admired.
Authentic Metallica Experience – full on Metallica by playing as the band with their motion captured moves and likeness capturing the full presence and intensity of James, Lars, Kirk and Robert. Take the stage on amazing, epic venues featuring famous Metallica stages and iconic imagery. All tracks and content are “Metallica Approved.”
Full Guitar Hero World Tour Feature Set – All the instruments are back in the next Guitar Hero: rock on guitar, bass, vocals and drums. Up to 4 players can join together and rock locally, or battle other bands online with up to 8 players. Guitar Hero Metallica includes the “Rock Star Creator,” playing with friends online, the full Music Studio and the user-created music sharing service, GH Tunes. Finally play the Death Magnetic downloadable content as Metallica.
New Content and Gameplay – The game supports two kick pedals in a new “Expert +” mode, letting you drum like Lars on two bass drums. Go deeper into Metallica with videos straight from Metallica concerts and the option to test your Metallica know-how on any song you beat with facts on the band’s history, and how guest acts are tied to Metallica. Metallica has added their own touch from the attacks in Battle Mode to the effects in the Music Studio.

Metallica Tracks

All Nightmare Long
Battery
Creeping Death
Disposable Heroes
Dyers Eve
Enter Sandman
Fade To Black
Fight Fire With Fire
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Frantic
Fuel
Hit The Lights
King Nothing
Master of Puppets
Mercyful Fate (Medley)
No Leaf Clover
Nothing Else Matters
One
Orion
Sad But True
Seek And Destroy
The Memory Remains
The Shortest Straw
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Unforgiven
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Wherever I May Roam
Whiplash

If you downloaded the “Death Magnetic” album for Xbox and PS3, those 10 songs will play in their entirety in the full game mode. PS2 and Wii versions (coming in the Spring, most likely in early May) will include “Broken Beat & Scarred,” “Cyanide” and “My Apocalypse” since they are not compatible with the Death Magnetic downloadable content.

Other Artists

Alice In Chains – No Excuses
Bob Seger – Turn The Page
Corrosion of Conformity – Albatross
Diamond Head – Am I Evil?
Foo Fighters – Stacked Actors
Judas Priest – Hell Bent For Leather
Kyuss – Demon Cleaner
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesdays Gone
Machine Head – Beautiful Mourning
Mastodon – Blood And Thunder
Mercyful Fate – Evil
Michael Schenker Group – Armed and Ready
Motorhead – Ace of Spades
Queen – Stone Cold Crazy
Samhain – Mother of Mercy
Slayer – War Ensemble
Social Distortion – Mommy’s Little Monster
Suicidal Tendencies – War Inside My Head
System of a Down – Toxicity
The Sword – Black River
Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back in Town

Top Grammy moments

Bill Sullivan — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:02:51 +0000

When singer Chris Brown took a wrong turn on the way to the 51st Grammy Awards — instead going to jail in the wake of an alleged domestic dispute — it was just the latest in a long line of offbeat incidents surrounding the annual music awards.

Previously, Bob Dylan endured a very “special” guest. Jennifer Lopez showed up half-naked. Michael Jackson brought Elizabeth Taylor as a date and went home with eight statuettes. Norah Jones upstaged The Boss, and Milli Vanilli ushered in the age of the lip-synch.

And, of course, when you think heavy metal, you think…Jethro Tull?

The Grammys have their good moments, but the event has spawned its share of weird ones as well. Time looked back on some of the more peculiar episodes and pared them down to a list of 10:

1. Soy Bomb

2. Marvin Gaye

3. J. Lo

4. Ol’ Dirty Bastard

5. Michael Jackson

6. Norah Jones

7. Eminem and Elton

8. Milli Vanilli

9. Tina Turner

10. Jethro Tull/Metallica

To read about what made those moments special, and to catch a slideshow, visit Time.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of ‘09

Bill Sullivan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:27:58 +0000

Here are the 2009 inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The ceremony will be held April 4 in Cleveland.

Little Anthony & The Imperials

Source: Rolling Stone

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Blender’s best albums 2008

Bill Sullivan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:00:40 +0000

Which were the best albums of the just-completed year? Everyone has his (or her) opinion, and any attempt at ranking 12 months worth of releases is sure to create an argument or 10.

But, hey, that’s the fun of the list game. Why else would you be here? Why else would we do it?

Blender has weighed in with its take on the 33 Best Albums of 2008. We’ll give you a sneak peek at the Top 10:

1. Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne

2. Feed the Animals, Girl Talk

3. Dear Science, TV on the Radio

4. Death Magnetic, Metallica

5. Made in the Dark, Hot Chip

6. Robyn, Robyn

7. Skeletal Lamping, Of Montreal

8. harps and angels, Randy Newman

9. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend

10. Folie a Deux, Fall Out Boy

To see the rest, and read a little bit about each, visit Blender.

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Rolling Stone’s best albums 2008

Bill Sullivan — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:26:54 +0000

Everyone has his own idea of which were the best albums of the almost-completed year, but not everyone has quite the gravitas of Rolling Stone.

As 2008 fades into the record books, RS is out with its list of the best of the best. It’s sure to trigger a debate or two, but that’s what these kinds of lists are for.

Here are the Top 10:

1. Dear Science, TV on the Radio

2. Tell Tale Signs – The Bootleg Series Vol. 8, Bob Dylan

3. Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne

4. My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges

5. Life, Death, Love and Freedom, John Mellencamp

6. Santogold, Santogold

7. Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends, Coldplay

8. Modern Guilt, Beck

9. Death Magnetic, Metallica

10. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend

To see the rest, and check out some clips, visit Rolling Stone.

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Top albums of 2008

Bill Sullivan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:45:17 +0000

What kind of year was 2008 for the music business? To some extent, that probably depends on your own taste and favored genre. “Top 10″ and “Best of” lists have an annoying tendency to please no one and irritate almost everyone who pauses to take a look.

When Time magazine set out to name its top albums of 2008, the editors found plenty of candidates. Their final list reflects a wide range of styles and talents. Even so, don’t be surprised if you come away wondering, “Hey, what about…?”

Here goes:

1. Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne

2. Dear Science, TV on the Radio

3. Death Magnetic, Metallica

4. Feed the Animals, Girl Talk

5. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend

6. 808s & Heartbreak, Kanye West

7. Santogold, Santogold

8. Third, Portishead

9. Little Honey, Lucinda Williams

10. Rockferry, Duffy

To read a little about each of these, and to see video clips of performances, visit Time.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2009 nominees

GetListy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:16:20 +0000

From Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Hip Hop group Run-DMC, heavy metal band Metallica and musician/songwriter Bobby Womack are among nine nominees vying for five spots in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Guitarist Jeff Beck, disco and R&B band Chic, rock and roll singer Wanda Jackson, doo-wop group Little Anthony and the Imperials, rock band The Stooges, and the California funk band War were also nominated.

Artists become eligible for the Hall of Fame 25 years after the release of their first single or album and are represented in an exhibition at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.

The list:

Run DMC — More than any other act, Run-D.M.C. took hip-hop from the streets of New York to the national stage. The group gets deserved credit for its combinations of rock and rap from their early use of guitars on tracks such as “Rock Box” to their ground-breaking collaboration with Aerosmith on their 1986 cover of “Walk this Way.” But even more important was how Run-D.M.C and the late Jam Master Jay set the template for modern hip-hop, from their everyday-teenager style to their blazing live shows to a catalogue of classic songs that few rappers have matched: “It’s Tricky,” “My Adidas,” “Peter Piper,” “It’s Like That,” “Sucker MC’s” and many more.

Metallica — Rising from the Los Angeles metal underground in the early 1980s, Metallica quickly rose to become the most successful and acclaimed heavy metal band of their era – a position they’ve consistently held for over a quarter century. Founded by vocalist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, the group discovered a potent formula by combining the thrash metal of Motorhead with the industrial sound of Killing Joke. By the late 1980s, mainstream tastes were shifting over to metal and Metallica found themselves with a string of hit singles and sold-out stadiums across the globe. This month the band released Death Magnetic, a metal tour de force in the same vein as their landmark 1980s work.

Bobby Womack — In a class with Sam Cooke and James Brown, his two older mentors, Bobby Womack’s career spans over 55 years, back to sibling group the Womack Brothers. Cooke signed and renamed them the Valentinos, whose first two Womack-penned R&B hits became signatures for the Rolling Stones (“It’s All Over Now,” their first #1 UK hit) and J. Geils Band (“Lookin’ For A Love”). Womack is a triple-threat: prolific solo artist, landmark session guitarist (Sam Cooke At the Copa, Aretha Now, Lady Soul, Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds,” Sly’s There’s A Riot Goin’ On, the Rolling Stones’ “Harlem Shuffle,” and many more), and master songwriter (Aretha’s “Chain Of Fools,” Wilson Picket’s “I’m a Midnight Mover,” Janis Joplin’s “Trust Me,” and countless others.

Jeff Beck — One of the most influential guitarists in rock and roll, Jeff Beck, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, as a member of the Yardbirds. After his 18-month stint (1965-66) in that band, he formed the first edition of the Jeff Beck Group (1968-69, with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood). In the four decades since, Beck’s work has encompassed deep explorations into instrumental jazz fusion, blues, a tribute to Gene Vincent, and much more, always underpinned by his hard-rock roots.

Chic — Chic’s founding partnership of songwriter-producers Nile Rodgers (guitar) and Bernard Edwards (bass), abetted by future Power Station drummer Tony Thompson, rescued disco in 1977 with a combination of groove, soul and studio smarts. With their out-of-the-box chart smashes “Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)” and “Le Freak,” Chic raised the bar and hooked a generation. Since then, artists such as Sugar Hill Gang and Diddy have turned to Chic for beats and samples. Rodgers and Edwards (before his death in 1996) followed their five years in Chic with careers as top-flight producers for an A-list of megastars.

Wanda Jackson — When Elvis Presley sang “wear my ring around your neck” – it was Wanda Jackson’s neck. And she still has the ring. The “First Lady of Rock and Roll” started recording in 1954, and was 18 when she graduated high school and played her first package tour with Elvis in 1955. He convinced her that rock and roll was the way, and she grabbed onto the rhythm like a dynamo. Wanda had the respect of Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and every musician who ever shared the stage with the “Queen Of Rockabilly.” A perennial star on tour in Europe and Japan, Wanda’s career revived back home in the ’90s, thanks to true believers like Elvis Costello.

Little Anthony and the Imperials — After singing in high school doo-wop groups, Fort Greene, Brooklyn’s Jerome Anthony Gourdine joined a quartet called the Chesters, which included tenor Ernest Wright, Jr. and baritone Clarence Collins. The fivesome signed to George Goldner’s End Records in 1958 as the Imperials featuring Little Anthony. His boyish vocal (redolent of Frankie Lymon) clicked with “Tears On My Pillow” and “Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop,” boosted by one of the most energetic stage shows around. Other hits included “I’m on the Outside (Looking In),” “Goin’ Out of My Head,” and “Hurt So Bad” that forever immortalized Little Anthony and the Imperials.

The Stooges — The “Big Bang” that became punk, alternative, heavy metal, new wave, grunge, hardcore and industrial music, could very well have been the advent of Iggy and the Stooges in Ann Arbor in the late 1960’s. Immediately embraced in New York, London and Los Angeles for the nuclear-powered simplicity of their music, the ironic nihilism of their lyrics, and the persona of Iggy himself, the Stooges have become icons in the history of modern music. And if there is a national anthem for the far side (the underside?) of our rock and roll universe, it is certainly “I Wanna Be Your Dog.”

War — The six founding members of War – the late Papa Dee Allen and Charles Miller, survivors Harold Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, and Howard Scott – were gigging around L.A. for nearly a decade before hooking up with Eric Burdon (ex-Animals) and Danish harmonica player Lee Oskar in 1969. Burdon and producer Jerry Goldstein named them War and they backed it up with a steamy Afro-Latin R&B groove that rocked their debut hit “Spill The Wine.” Less than two years later, Burdon dropped out and War went their own way in 1971. A long string of Top 10 pop/R&B crossover hits established War’s status through the ’70s, always with a social message grounded by their distinctively breezy Southern California vibe.

Five of the nine nominees will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The inductees will be announced in January 2009. For the latest information on inductee announcements, ticket packages, events, and other programs, fans can sign up for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame newsletter at http://www.rockhall.com/induction2009.

Source: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Track list for Metallica’s ‘Death Magnetic’

GetListy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:57:53 +0000

Here are the songs on Metallica’s Death Magnetic:

1. That Was Just Your Life

2. The End Of The Line

3. Broken, Beat & Scarred

4. The Day That Never Comes

5. All Nightmare Long

6. Cyanide

7. The Unforgiven III

8. The Judas Kiss

9. Suicide & Redemption

10. My Apocalypse

Source: Warner Bros.

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Greatest Rock & Roll Movies

Bill Sullivan — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:11:32 +0000

Rock & Roll has a long and mixed history on the big screen. Many have tried, but few have managed to capture the essence of the genre on film.

Still, there have been enough successes for Blender to put together its list of the 100 Greatest Rock & Roll Movies of All Time.

Here’s the Top 10:

1. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

2. Saturday Night Fever (1977)

3. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)

4. Purple Rain (1984)

5. Almost Famous (2000)

6. The Blues Brothers (1980)

7. 24 Hour Party People (2002)

8. Dig! (2004)

9. The Last Waltz (1978)

10. South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut (1999)

To read about these movies, and to see the rest of the list, visit Blender.