Newsflashes (E3, Antlers, God Help The Girl, Conan, etc)

June 5, 2009

I’ve been keeping up with Joystiq’s amazing E3 coverage over the last week, mostly to keep tabs on the new and wonderful developments in the music gaming world coming up. Guitar Hero 5 released an artist list which features much more indie rock and overall song variety than ever before (Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses, White Stripes, TV on the Radio, Blur, My Morning Jacket, and even Elliott Smith are in the game). Plus, some of the new features of the game (like party play) look sick. This interview has all the info.  Rock Band: Beatles (view trailer, intro), of course, looks crazy awesome. Haven’t decided on DJ Hero yet, though my gut tells me that will be really cool as well, but my gut is also very hungry…

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A lot has happened for Brooklyn’s The Antlers since I featured them in January. They’ve exploded on the blog scene, signed to Frenchkiss Records, scored a tour with Frightened Rabbit, and started to get some major attention from Pitchfork.  Not only did they get best new music for their song “Bear” but today they were officially added to Pitchfork Festival which is totally sweet. Their album will be re-released in August, listen to two of their best tracks below:

MP3 The Antlers – Two
MP3 The Antlers – Bear

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If you’re as big of a fan of The Wire as I am, you’ll probably want to spend some time checking out this blog, dedicated to the show and other David Simon projects.  They’re systematically going through and analyzing each episode and keeping count of things like Omar stick-ups and drunken McNulty sightings.

MP3 Tom Waits – Down In The Hole

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I’m still regularly listening to Stuart Murdoch’s God Help The Girl album. Not every track works for me, but the good ones (like “come monday night”, “a dark and dusky blonde” and the title track) are really really great.  If you’re a Belle & Sebastian fan and miss Murdoch on lead vocals though, here’s a just-released b-side MP3 that’s been made available to download. Very enjoyable song.

MP3 God Help The Girl – Mary’s Market

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Check out this blog that exposes duplications and other interesting photoshop fakeries in movie posters. Totally rad!

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I’ve caught every episode of the Tonight Show with Conan, and I love what the man is doing. So far, the Tom Hanks episode has been the best, I laughed my face off at TWITTER TRACKER.  This image has been making the rounds but I feel obligated to post it, because it’s seriously cool:

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Posted by Taylor in Gaming, News, Television