Kurt Cobain to feature in Guitar Hero 5
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- Kurt Cobain to feature in Guitar Hero 5
- Tucson Weekend: Click Here to Find Stuff to Do
- The Beatles are hot again
- utside Lands sees smaller more mellow crowd
- Deer management plan to be debated at Rock Creek Park Nature Center
- Jim DeRogatis
- Alternative schools’ low scores worry School Board
Kurt Cobain to feature in Guitar Hero 5
NEWS.com.au
This decade’s biggest pop music battle is between video games. Activision this weekend announced late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain would feature as a playable character in Guitar Hero 5 set to be released next month in direct competition with MTV’s The Beatles: Rock Band. "Remembered as one of the most iconic artists in the history of alternative rock Kurt Cobain’s enduring legacy continues with his video game debut" said the games publisher. Two Nirvana tracks will be included in the game – Smells Like Teen Spirit and a live recording of Lithium from the band’s performance at the Reading Festival in 1992. The announcement has added fuel to what is expected to be the biggest video game showdown of the year as the two music titles go head to head. The Beatles: Rock Band will be released worldwide on September 9 while Guitar Hero 5 hits shelves on September 1 in the US and 16 in Australia. The Guitar Hero franchise had sold more than 26 million copies at the start of the year while both games claim to have sold tens of millions of individual songs through online downloads.
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Tucson Weekend: Click Here to Find Stuff to Do
California Chronicle
Saturday Cost: $35-$85 Marcy Playground The Rock 136 N. Park Ave Info: Alternative rock. All ages bar with I. D Saturday Cost: $15 in advance; $18 day of show Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers Club Congress 311 E. Congress St Info: Americana music.
The Beatles are hot again
San Diego Union Tribune
I can?t think of anything I would have gone to with my parents that I would have enjoyed musically. ?Last year on ?American Idol? The Beatles became the first act in any musical genre whose songs were performed by contestants on the show for a full two weeks. The band?s influence is so pervasive it inspired the title of Elijah Wald?s recent book ?How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music. ?No other rock band before or since has had such an enduring impact or set the standard by which so many other groups are judged. And no other band has inspired so many artists from Kiss and Flaming Lips to 20-year-old Encinitas musician Tolan Shaw and 24-year-old Malibu troubadour Colbie Caillat one of 10 artists to record new versions of Beatles songs for the soundtrack to the recent Eddie Murphy film ?Imagine That. ??I love The Beatles. They were brilliant songwriters and great musical talents who did all these innovative things? said Shaw who starts his junior year this week at the University of San Diego and is a member of the San Diego band The New Archaic.
utside Lands sees smaller more mellow crowd
San Francisco Chronicle
The main stage attractions at this year’s festival such as Pearl Jam the Black Eyed Peas and Dave Matthews Band didn’t have quite the same draw which meant that people who made it out were more relaxed and happy to simply meander the grounds. With seven stages and nearly 100 bands spread across the massive Polo Field and adjacent Speedway and Lindley meadows there was no shortage of music to take in. If someone didn’t care for the abundant alternative rock acts on the bill they could simply move on and witness Tom Jones’ pelvic thrusts to pop classics like “Delilah” Raphael Saadiq’s sleek soul or a career-spanning set of party anthems by former A Tribe Called Quest rapper Q-Tip. There were a few gatecrashers but for the most part people without tickets seemed happy to gather along the perimeter of the chain-link fence in the park with lawn chairs and picnic blankets to eavesdrop on the music. Inside there were virtually no lines at the portable toilets or numerous concessions stands which sold everything from fair trade coffee and organic produce to local wines. ne stall offered free hugs along with vintage t-shirts. n-site police officers and medics said there were no major disturbances.
Deer management plan to be debated at Rock Creek Park Nature Center
Examiner.com
The meeting to discuss the white-tailed deer management plan is part of the required process for completing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and deer management plan for Rock Creek Park as required by federal law. ne alternative is to do nothing. The draft plan is available for review and comment online at the National Park Service Planning Environment and Public Comment (PEPC) website at.
Jim DeRogatis
Chicago Sun-Times
But as the two-hour 20-minute set made clear with a diverse and rewarding tour of his rich catalog his music has indeed stood the test of time and it’s likely to endure for quite a few years to come even if the band as we’ve come to know it no longer exists to deliver it live. Throughout its history some critics and fans focused on the group’s theatrical stage shows: the assault of airport runway lights the billowing clouds of fog and the star’s angry eruptions that sent keyboards and guitars flying — all tricks present at its penultimate Chicago show. thers lauded the band’s distinctive sonics and deservedly so given Reznor’s creativity in building a unique palette of digital and traditional rock instruments that drew on elements of punk thrash-metal and industrial dance music — with an acknowledged debt to Chicago’s Wax Trax label in the ’80s –combining to create something new and hard to categorize part organic and part alien avant garde. But as Johnny Cash famously illustrated with his stripped-down acoustic cover of “Hurt” the real heart of Nine Inch Nails’ appeal is Reznor’s powerfully emotional songwriting. And he delivered an absurdly generous helping of it on Friday before closing his first Aragon show with that signature tune. Late in the show the group was joined for three songs by former Bauhaus singer and Goth-rock progenitor Peter Murphy.
Alternative schools’ low scores worry School Board
Daily Triplicate
However the most at-risk students and those doing independent study seem to be struggling especially in upper-level math such as algebra. Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Don lson said that the goal for this school year will be to take the methods that seem to be working at mainstream schools and implement them at the alternative education schools. f the schools in the County ffice of Education which houses the alternative education programs Castle Rock Charter School and the juvenile hall 22 percent of students scored proficient or above on the language arts test and only 10 percent scored that high in math. ne reason for this could be the small number of students inalternative education programs lson said. The percentage of studentsscoring from far below basic to advanced is “volatile” each year hesaid. Also most students in alternative education programs are at-risklson explained. Some of those students are also quite bright but it’snot always cool to be bright.
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