Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
Marina and The Diamonds are working on some new music, but Marina is being very secretive about it. Although the release has been delayed, she let’s us in on some secrets about the new album, and how alcohol changed her life.
The drum solo ends, the guitarist and bassist spring into action, the singer screams “YEAAAAAAAAAAAH” and the crowd goes wild.
I’ve been on the road for about two weeks with my band. We have about 300,000 fans and we’ve been all the way to Moscow. Recently we got our own private jet. Pretty happy about that. The funny thing is, I haven’t left my room in two weeks.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve probably guessed by now I’m talking about Rock Band, Harmonix’s latest foray into rhythm gaming.
Harmonix, after making Guitar Hero 2, decided to sell the rights to Activision and begin work on a truly ardous project that had most likely been in their blood from the first time they set out to make Amplitude. The result of this is a truly immersive experience where four of your friends can play at the same time! With choices from Guitar, Bass, Vocals, or the more popular and difficult choice- the drums.
The presentation of this game is stellar and the venues are varied. The animation of your characters (which you can create extensively) are very realistic. You can actually see them strumming and bending each string when they play. It’s almost like watching a music video.
While there have been problems with the peripherals (fender strum bar breaking, non-responsive drum pads), the instruments are quite awesome. The microphone is a Logitech microphone and the guitar is endorsed by fender and actually looks like a strat. It has a pickup selector which allows you to choose effects and a separate set of buttons for “solo sections” where you can play without strumming when your fret board turns blue in the game. The drums are four pads and a kick pedal and come packaged with Ludwig drumsticks for your bashing pleasure.
I’m an expert player so I found the guitar charts to be pretty easy albeit some timing window adjustments (try in between Guitar Hero 1 and 2) but once you get the hang of it you’ll be playing with one hand in no time! Watch out for Green Grass and High Times though as it makes Freebird look like a joke.
Drums are extremely difficult. It took me awhile to work my way up to hard mode and as someone that sucks at independent joint movement I am having a hell of a time beating Queens of The Stone Age’s “Go With The Flow” and Kiss’ – “Detroit Rock City”. Expert drumming is a whole different story. Rest assured if you can play drums on expert mode you can probably play the drums in real life.
Vocals on expert are no picnic either. I find it best to sing as airy as possible and I had the most trouble with The Strokes Reptillia due to Casablanca’s odd sounding voice and The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” mostly because you can barely hear Mick Jagger’s voice and end up singing the female part by accident. Which brings us to the song list.
While there are a few songs in Rock Band I don’t particularly enjoy singing, I find that all in all it’s a pretty perfect setlist as there’s something for everyone. Metal, grunge, alternative, southern rock, pop, even emo gets a nod (Fallout Boy).
While online for this game is excellent it really doesn’t compare to having three people rock out with you. This game is a social experience that is mainly why when it comes to playing guitar by myself I’d choose Guitar Hero 3.
With downloadable content being released every Tuesday and the daunting task of trying to become good enough to beat the game on Expert on all instruments, I’d say this game has infinite replay value till Rock Band 2. Also, not to mention the Band World Tour mode where you set off with your band to get more fans, get more stars, buy clothes, instruments, tattooes, different hair styles and try to get inducted into the hall of fame where you stand to conquer the biggest challenge in Rockband.
The Endless Setlist (5 ½ hours straight of music). I’ll let you know how that works out for me.
Buy this game now if you can find it.
Rockband Retails for approximately $170.00 CAD/$160.00 USD at the time of this reivew and is available for PS3/XBOX360/PS2.
Graphics: 4.5 / 5.0
Gameplay 5.0 / 5.0
Sound 5.0 / 5.0
Replay value 5.0 / 5.0
