Where Do We Go Now?

Axl can swing, baby! Some fun tunes altered to make them swing courtesy of NPR.

And in the Middle of the Celebrations I Break Down

Abbey Road will be the first full album download available for Beatles Rockband. How freakin' cool would the side two medley be to play?! Lord knows how many times I've air-drummed and air-guitared it.

Here are the details. It's all a bit more complicated than "The album will cost $##.##" so read it for yourself.

Now I Shall Reign in Blood

LEGO Rock Band! "Suitable for younger audiences." I don't know, when my then five-year-old son started playing (and subsequently singing) Raining Blood by Slayer on Guitar Hero I thought nothing of it!

* The Automatic - “Monster”
* Blink 182 - “Aliens Exist” *
* Blur - “Song 2”
* Bon Jovi - “ You Give Love a Bad Name” *
* Carl Douglas - “Kung Fu Fighting”
* Counting Crows - “Accidentally in Love” *
* Europe - “The Final Countdown”
* Foo Fighters - “Breakout”
* Good Charlotte - “Boys and Girls”

* The Hives - “Tick Tick Boom!” *
* Jackson 5 - “I Want You Back”
* Kaiser Chiefs - “Ruby”
* Pink - “So What”
* Ray Parker Jr. - “Ghostbusters”
* Sum 41 - “ In Too Deep” *
* Tom Petty - “Free Fallin’’
* Vampire Weekend - “A-Punk”

Sure. Just in time for the holidays. Why not?

Pick Up that Guitar and Talk to Me

My whole family loves the Wii - and no surprise, Guitar Hero III is by far our favorite. There's quite a bit of shock and a little bit of pride when your five-year-old son starts singing Talk Dirty To Me and claims that One is his favorite song on the game. So I'm intrigued by today's announcement of an Aerosmith Guitar Hero that will be released this summer. It's not that I like Aerosmith. I really don't. Two good songs (this one and that one) early in their loooong career and plenty of novelty songs since hardly impress me. Nonetheless, the concept of an artist-focused Guitar Hero takes the franchise in an exciting and likely lucrative direction.

Of course I'm already thinking to the next installment. It needs to be a band with mass appeal and guitar hero status. I think it'd be pretty fun to play Edge or Peter Buck, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Excuse me. I have to go jam to Slayer. You understand.

Like A Rolling Stone

It's a little known fact that Bob Dylan has written every single hit song in the last 35 years. Really.