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...think kids are looking to Sweeney Todd for Saw IV thrills. Besides, the R rating precludes the Disney audience. And have you checked out Broadway lately? I believe the "fogey" audience has become accustomed to situations that are more violent than the graveyard scene in The Sound of Music. The true problem with the upcoming version of Sweeney Todd is whether the principal players can do vocal justice to Stephen Sondheim's powerful score...
...Rock Band is the latest, hottest and most ambitious entry in the genre of music-based video games, and retailers can't keep it on the shelves, even at $170 a pop. "We can't make 'em fast enough at this point," says Alex Rigopulos, CEO of Harmonix, which developed Rock Band as well as two Guitar Hero games. It would be easy to dismiss Rock Band as a fad or just a game, but there's something more to it. Besides being insanely fun, music-based games like Rock Band may actually be important. Consider these five reasons while...
...actually teaches you something about music...
...fronted a band that seemed poised to break nationally. When it didn't, he attended Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., and apprenticed at a megachurch before founding Mars Hill just outside Grand Rapids. The town is notoriously well churched, but Bell saw an untapped audience: some were his music fans, others Christians left cold by traditional services. "A hundred people a day were calling and saying, 'Dude! Give us the real thing.' I was like, If someone could speak to these people in their mother tongue, they'd be here in droves." Fifteen hundred people, alerted by word...
...Ironically, Whitlock disproves his argument with his own words. His theory concerning the detrimental effects of hip-hop is based on the premise that the behaviors follow the music. But any sensible person sees the endogeneity problem. The existence of rap music can be explained by the prevalence of the behaviors it glorifies. It may sound like a chicken and egg problem, but in this case, the causation is actually pretty clear. Misogyny, violence, and crime have all been endemic to and glorified in America since long before rap music ever existed. Specifically, the rise of the lucrative crack-cocaine...