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...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...
...impact of celebrity endorsements is highly questionable, but that doesn't stop candidates from courting famous friends. Not everyone can claim Oprah or Streisand, but even martial-arts stars and porn kings create buzz. Test your campaign and pop-culture knowledge by matching up the endorsements below...
...ever going to guest-star on The Office, USA? -Earl Ellingson, VancouverI resisted that for a very good reason. I thought it would look a bit in-jokey or desperate. But now I think it's a safe environment to pop up in. Maybe they could watch an episode of Extras, and Michael Scott could go, "This guy is not very good. I hear they're doing an American remake...
...Music and culture are reflections—sometimes very ugly reflections—of … harsh realities…Blaming hip-hop for our current state is like blaming the pan-flute and zither for the crusades.” In an economy where pop culture is marketed, packaged, and sold, the product must, by necessity, reflect society’s values. Obviously, misogyny, violence and crime sell—and to far more people than those that actually live the lifestyle hip-hop albums promote. But somehow, hip hop is supposed to be viable explanation...
...truth is that our sports, our music, our pop culture, and even our representative government are only reflections of the society we’ve created and the society that we want for ourselves. If we believe the problems that show themselves in these institutions are really worth fixing, we should probably spend some time addressing the actual causes. Instead, we choose to scapegoat easy targets, and then move along on our high horses as if we’ve accomplished something