Yes the Grandmaster Flash. The first man ever to use the turntable as an instrument was kind enough to call our headquarters last week to field questions about his life, from the first record he ever cut to what's hot on the dance floor now to his starring role in the new game DJ Hero. Without the pioneering discoveries Flash (born in Barbados as Joseph Saddler and brought up in the Bronx) made in the early '70s experimenting with vinyl records, hip-hop as we know it today would not exist.
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The image of a hardcore gamer subsisting on Cheetos and a Mountain Dew may need an update. Example A: this how-to for carving the Mario Bros. 1-UP mushroom out of a radish. Food culture and design are leaching into video-game junkies' virtual and offline worlds. Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington, allows you to have food and beverages delivered to your seats via the Nintendo Fan Network -- a wireless network at the stadium that works with the hand-held Nintendo DS.
Eric "Mean" Melin is Kansas City's hope for air-guitar greatness (read more in this week's feature, "Air Guitar Hero"). His airness began 19 years ago at Kansas State University. Let's time warp to 1990 when a long-haired metalhead known as simply Eric Melin demonstrated how to air guitar.
OK. Trust me, he's a lot more experienced now. He better be. Friday night he'll serve up a lesson to America's best air guitarists in the U.S. Air Guitar Championships. Mean Melin better not forget the les
Last week, KISS announced that its new album, Sonic Boom, is to be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart. Is this further evidence of what the Chicago Tribune's Mark Caro referred to as "the death of the record store"? Caro also asked if a rock band selling an album exclusively at a big box store counted as a sell-out.
I think it's a valid question. The Tribune's Greg Kott and compatriot critic Jim Derogatis on the Sun-Times have discussed this sort of thing time and time again on their program S
Come November, you'll be able to own one of the most-bootlegged concerts in history -- Nirvana's historic August 30, 1992 headlining appearance at the Reading Festival as a color-corrected video from the original film with audio sourced from the original multi-track masters. Nirvana Live At Reading will be issued in a limited deluxe edition of the CD and DVD as well as video or audio only discs, in addition to a double LP version. The CD and DVD drop on November 3, with the LP following two we
Since music consumers these days spend more time fingering their iPhones than their wallets at the merch table at actual live shows, it's pretty dang smart for a touring regional band like our own Antennas Up to get its music on the all-powerful gadget of the day.Layne Haley
And as of last week, iPhone and iPod touch users who download the megapopular Tap Tap Revenge 3 game from the iTunes App Store will be able to ply their digits to not one but three Antennas songs: "Don't Wait Up," "O
